Embattled CBS CEO Les Moonves Is Officially Departing the Company After 23 Years

He’ll leave immediately; COO Joseph Ianniello will step in as interim CEO

What does CBS look like without its über-confident longtime leader Les Moonves? We’re about to find out.

The CBS Corp. CEO and chairman is departing the company he has led since 2007, CBS said tonight. His exit comes after a tumultuous four months during which CBS sued parent company and controlling shareholder National Amusements over its future, and a total 12 women accused Moonves of sexual harassment and intimidation in a pair of New Yorker stories published in

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