The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation officially cut ties with Canadian radio personality Jian Ghomeshi Friday due to undisclosed reasons, New York Times reported.
CBC released a statement Friday saying that their relationship with Ghomeshi has ended, The News Wire stated.
According to the statement, the decision "was not made without serious deliberation and careful consideration" and that they still wish Ghomeshi well. There was no reason stated as to why this occurred.
However, over the past few months, allegations of sexual abuse were made against Ghomeshi by three young women, according to Toronto Star.
All women were about 20 years younger than the radio host and claimed that Ghomeshi was physically violent towards them without their consent during sexual encounters.
The three women said during an interview with The Toronto Star that Ghomeshi struck them, bit them, choked them until they nearly passed out, covered their noses and mouths so that they had difficulty breathing and was verbally abusive.
A fourth woman, who worked at CBC, said Ghomeshi told her "I want to hate f*ck you."
Another woman, who described incidents similar to the first three women, said that while Ghomeshi warned her he would be aggressive, he would never force her to do anything. However, she was attacked, choked and hit. In the end, she said she had no choice but to submit.
In response to CBC's decision to fire him and the allegations of abuse, Ghomeshi responded through a Facebook post Sunday claiming that after almost 14 years of working for them, he was fired by the CBC for a variety of activities in the bedroom which were sexual in nature but "are mutually agreed upon, consensual, and exciting for both partners."
Ghomeshi commenced legal action against the CBC and launched a $50 million lawsuit claiming "breach of confidence and bad faith" for his wrongful termination.
Ghomeshi also denied any such accusations by the women. In his Facebook post, he told the story of a woman he had dated but eventually broke up with and who "began a campaign of harassment, vengeance and demonization against me." He claimed that she was contacting these other women that he had previously dated and that they were simply trying to build a story to smear his name.
The women investigated by The Toronto Star denied Ghomeshi's claims and stated that the reason they had kept quiet and not gone to the police was due to fear of exposure or that their consent for fantasy roleplay or any such sexual activities would be seen as evidence of consent of actual violence.
Michael Cooke, editor of the Toronto Star, defended the decision to publish the article, according to the The Toronto Star.
"In view of Mr. Ghomeshi's extraordinary statement on Facebook on Sunday evening, and his high public profile in Canada, we now believe that it is in the public interest," Cooke said.
After Cooke and the Toronto Star presented the allegations, CBC Spokesman Chuck Thompson said he could not respond to any of the allegations due to employer-employee relationship.
CBC had yet to make an official statement in response to Ghomeshi's post and impending lawsuit or to the allegations presented by Ghomeshi's alleged victims.