Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy Award revoked over harassment allegations

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TV Academy “Cancels Cuomo’s Special 2020 International Emmy Award,” It Has Been Announced

The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday it had revoked a special Emmy award given to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his COVID-19 briefings in 2020, in view of his resignation from its functions.

Cuomo had received the International Emmy Founders Award for his “masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world,” the organization said in November 2020, when the award was announced.

Cuomo resigned his governorship on Monday after a state investigation found he sexually harassed women who worked for him. He sometimes regretted making young women uncomfortable, but denied the criminal acts,

In light of Cuomo’s investigation and resignation, the TV academy “is canceling its special 2020 International Emmy Award,” the group said in a statement.

“His name and any reference to his receipt of the award will be removed from the documents of the International Academy in the future,” he added.

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