Some network employees questioned why her relationship with Barrack was not made public on television.
CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble, who was behind the firing of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell for having an “inappropriate relationship” also had an affair with California billionaire Tom Barrack, according to a new report. Gamble’s romantic relationship with Barrack, 76, was exposed to her co-workers way back in 2020.
According to reports, the relationship was exposed after Barrack, a longtime billionaire friend and 2016 fundraiser to President Trump, accidentally loafed on camera while Gamble was filming her show. The expose also led to an internal investigation at the CNBC network but Gamble managed to save her job, new reports have claimed.
According to sources familiar with the situation, Gamble’s relationship with Barrack, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns, sparked a human resources investigation at CNBC after she secured a high-profile interview with Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner in August 2020.
The investigation has been confirmed by an attorney for Gamble, the New York Post reported.
According to the attorney, Gamble believes an HR complaint was made after the Kushner interview, alleging that Barrack, who was then well-known for his close ties to the White House, had “organized the interview between Kushner and Gamble” while the two were dating and that it hadn’t been disclosed, the outlet reported.
As more proof of their romance, The Post also released behind-the-scenes footage showing Gamble shooing Barrack from a hotel room in Turkey in the summer of 2020.
Gamble, according to the Post, interviewed Kushner in Washington, D.C. on Barrack’s private plane and frequently broadcast her show, “Capital Connection,” from his lavish apartment in New York City.
However, Gamble’s lawyer Suzanne McKie claimed that Barrack, the founder of investment management company Colony Capital, “did not organize an interview” between Gamble and Kushner as Gamble had already met Kushner at the Peace to Prosperity Summit in Bahrain in June 2019,
“Hadley understands, although she was not party to the talks, that a Kushner representative approached the Middle East producer for CNBC to pitch a sit-down interview with Miss Gamble as the CNBC Middle East correspondent,” McKie stated.
