Real Estate
Ex-Douglas Elliman CEO Lorber Admitted to Intimacy With Brokers
- Lawyers for board special committee interviewed him last month
- He soon retired, and the firm publicly praised his work there
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Two weeks before Howard Lorber retired as chairman and chief executive officer of Douglas Elliman Inc., he said at an internal inquiry that he had intimate relationships with two of the company’s brokers, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The revelation came during a five-hour videoconference call on Oct. 8 where Lorber was questioned about his personal life and allegations of sexual harassment at the firm that he ran for 21 years, the person said. At the session, he was interviewed by lawyers working for a special committee of the board formed in August after directors deemed an earlier review conducted by Lorber’s longtime lawyer Marc Kasowitz to be inadequate.