AceShowbiz - Matt Lauer recently made a rare public appearance alongside his girlfriend, Shamin Abas, in Sag Harbor, New York.

On March 23, Matt Lauer was dressed casually in a gray zip-up jacket, denim jeans, white sneakers, and a navy hat. Meanwhile, Shamin Abas, a public relations executive, wore a forest green overcoat, navy pants, and brown boots as she linked arms with Matt Lauer.

The couple has kept their relationship largely private since they began dating in late 2019, shortly after Matt Lauer, 68, finalized his divorce from Annette Roque. The former couple share three children: Jack, 24, Romy, 22, and Thijs, 19.

Matt Lauer and Shamin Abas were last seen together publicly at a car event in Bridgehampton, New York, in September 2024, and earlier that year at the wedding of Don Lemon in New York City. The previous year, the pair enjoyed a rare date night shopping in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

In 2017, Matt Lauer was dismissed from NBC News following accusations of “inappropriate sexual behavior,” which the then-chairman Andy Lack described as potentially not being an isolated incident. Matt Lauer apologized at the time, stating he was sorry for the hurt caused and acknowledged that while some accusations were “untrue or mischaracterized,” there was enough truth in the stories to make him feel “embarrassed and ashamed.”

However, the allegations intensified when Brooke Nevils accused Matt Lauer in Ronan Farrow’s 2019 book Catch and Kill of having anally raped her in a hotel room during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Matt Lauer maintained that their encounter was “mutual and completely consensual.”

In response to the allegations, Matt Lauer published a letter in Variety in 2019, denying the assault claims. He wrote, “In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault. It is categorically false, ignores the facts and defies common sense.”

This article is based on reporting originally published by E! News.