Matt Lauer has been married for 19 years to a Dutch former model, who reportedly filed for divorce in 2006
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- Matt Lauer, the longtime host of NBC News' "Today" show who was fired on Wednesday following an accusation of sexual misconduct, has been married to Annette Roque Lauer for 19 years.
- Roque Lauer, a former model originally from the Netherlands, reportedly filed for divorce in 2006, but withdrew the papers weeks later.
Matt Lauer, the longtime host of NBC News' "Today" show who was fired on Wednesday following an accusation of sexual misconduct, has been married to Annette Roque Lauer for 19 years.
Roque, a former model born in the Netherlands, met Lauer on a blind date in 1997 and the two were married in Bridgehampton, New York in 1998.
The couple have three children, a 16-year-old son, a 14-year-old daughter, and an 11-year-old son.
While Roque was pregnant with the couple's third child in 2006, she reportedly filed for divorce, citing "cruel and inhuman treatment" by Lauer, according to documents reportedly filed in the Supreme Court of New York and obtained by the National Enquirer.
"The conduct of defendant [Lauer] so endangers the physical and mental well-being of the plaintiff [Roque] so as to render it unsafe and improper for plaintiff to cohabit with defendant," Nancy Chemtob, Roque's attorney, reportedly wrote in the legal documents.
The documents, which Roque reportedly withdrew three weeks later, have not been independently verified.
NBC News chairman Andy Lack sent a memo to NBC employees on Wednesday saying that he "received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer" and that, while the complaint was the first the network had received about Lauer, there was "reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident."
Lauer has been a fixture on NBC since the early 1990s, and he has traveled the world to report on a wide range of subjects. He hosted "Today" for two decades.
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