Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro on Monday suddenly announced his retirement from the newspaper publisher — hours before a report surfaced that claimed two women had accused him of inappropriate behavior, according to The NYPost.
The women, executives who had business dealings with Ferro in 2013 and 2016 — before he worked at Tronc — claim they were victims of unwanted advances, according to Fortune, which published a story of their accounts.
One woman, Kathryn Minshew, claims Ferro tried to forcibly kiss her in September 2013 at a corporate apartment in downtown Chicago. They had met because Ferro agreed to invest $750,000 in her digital company.
The second woman, Hagan Kappler, then an executive with Ingersoll Rand, claims Ferro, in a hotel suite at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, put his arms around her from behind and grabbed her breast, Fortune reported.
The magazine said it has numerous secondary sources to back up the claims.
A spokeswoman for Tronc said the company has had no claims filed against Ferro — and that it is “aware of no claims filed against Ferro throughout his career.”
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