Andrew Cuomo asked one of his accusers to help him find a girlfriend then rejected her suggestion of Chelsea Handler because he thought the comedian was ‘crazy’.
The governor of New York told Charlotte Bennett that he was ‘lonely’ because his ex-girlfriend Sandra Lee was not replying to him as he spilled his heart out to the 25-year-old staffer.
But the governor said no to Bennett's suggestion he date Handler because she was ‘nuts’, the New York state Attorney General report into his sexual misconduct reveals.
Cuomo also said no to Bennett’s suggestion that he date Jada Pinkett Smith because she is married.
Appendices to the report reveal a trove of texts, emails among Cuomo staffers and notes from interviews with his accusers which shed new light on the claims.
They reveal that Cuomo, 63, asked Bennet to memorize the lyrics to the song Danny Boy and once sang the 1950s hit ‘Do You Love Me’ down the phone to her.
The emails from Cuomo’s team show that they downplayed the allegations, with one saying that Cuomo, who is Italian American, trying to kiss a young woman at a wedding ‘isn’t even a thing - (it) sounds like every Italian grandad at a wedding’.
Charlotte Bennett made notes about her experience working with Cuomo which she gave to investigators
The devastating report revealed that Cuomo, a prominent Democrat once tipped for the Presidency, sexually harassed at least 11 women including a state trooper assigned to protect him.
The third term governor, who Joe Biden considered to be his Attorney General, created a ‘hostile and toxic work environment’ which enabled his ‘deeply disturbing’ pattern of conduct which included unwanted kissing, groping and suggestive comments.
The appendices to the report appear to include notes taken by investigators interviewing Bennett.
They show that on June 5th last year Bennett had a discussion with Cuomo where they began talking about relationships.
The notes state that Cuomo ‘brought up his ex - he said Sandy (Sandra Lee) was not talking to him’ - the couple had ended their eight-year relationship in 2019.
Cuomo said he was ‘lonely, that he was not sleeping well, he was looking for a girlfriend’.
Cuomo told Bennett she was ‘in charge of finding him a girlfriend’.
At the time Cuomo was winning national plaudits for his handling of the pandemic and his daily press conferences which would later win him an Emmy.
But according to the notes, Bennett recalled that Cuomo ‘wants to get drunk and get on his motorbike and take a woman into the mountains and forget about the pandemic for a few hours’.
When the conversation returned to finding the governor a girlfriend, Bennett ‘didn’t know what to say’ so she suggested Jada Pinkett Smith and Chelsea Handler.
The notes say: ‘He said CH (Handler) was crazy’.
The report includes photos of Cuomo with women - some whose faces were muzzed, some whose weren't - as proof of how tactile he is
More photos of Cuomo with women at his events, with his hands over their waists. His team says he is tactile with everyone
The appendices include text messages between Charlotte Bennett and another aide, and conversations she had with her parents where she had she had a 'great conversation' with the 'Governor', and others where she says he made her feel uncomfortable.
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