Tavis Smiley Ordered To Pay PBS $1.5 Million For Violating Network's 'Morality' Clause

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Tavis Smiley Ordered To Pay PBS $1.5 Million For Violating Network's 'Morality' Clause
March 4, 20207:03 PM ET
Vanessa Romo

Tavis Smiley has to pay up.

A Washington, D.C., jury decided on Wednesday that the former public television host, violated the morals clause of his contract by carrying on sexual relationships with multiple subordinates. Now, they agreed, he owes the broadcaster nearly $1.5 million.

Smiley, who was fired in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations, sued PBS contending he was dropped from the network as a result of racial bias and that he was wrongly terminated. Smiley was the only solo black host of a show on the broadcasting organization's airwaves.

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