Jeff Zucker’s romantic Amalfi trip with girlfriend Allison Gollust three weeks before leaving Don Lemon’s Hamptons party with married CNN host Alisyn Camerota
Jeff Zucker’s romantic Amalfi trip with girlfriend Allison Gollust three weeks before leaving Don Lemon’s Hamptons party with married CNN host Alisyn Camerota
- Zucker and Alisyn Camerota walked out of Lemon’s party hand-in-hand on Saturday
- Sources say they are just ‘old friends’ and would meet his girlfriend, Allison Gollust, ‘for coffee’ in town
- Gollust left the party five minutes early and was on the phone
Ex-CNN boss Jeff Zucker soaked up the sun on a romantic trip to the Amalfi Coast with girlfriend Allison Gollust, three weeks before he was photographed leaving a party in the Hamptons holding hands with married host Alisyn Camerota.
The pair caused a stir by coming out of Don Lemon’s Sag Harbor pad on Saturday afternoon, just 30 minutes after Zucker arrived with Gollust. Gollust was seen alone and on the phone five minutes later.
It’s unclear where the trio went – Zucker is currently selling his Amagansett estate for a whopping $16 million.
This is what sources close to them tell us Page six there is nothing to the photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
Summer of CNN love: Zucker and Gollust are shown together on the Amalfi Coast in a photo posted online July 3 by Lemon
Lemon, Zucker and Gollust at a dinner party in Italy about a month ago
July 22, 3:11 p.m.: Zucker leaves Don Lemon’s home in Sag Harbor with married CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota. He had arrived just 30 minutes earlier with Gollust
3:11 p.m.: Allison Gollust left the party just five minutes ahead of Zucker and Camerota
‘[They’re] just old friends. Allison and Jeff have never been happier.
“He and Camerota were supposed to meet Allison for coffee,” the source claimed.
Zucker and Camerota, who joined the network in 2014 after working at Fox News.
He took over at CNN last year in 2013, with Gollust as one of his first hires.
In 2019, he joked at an awards show that he loved “waking up with” Camerota – then the host of one of CNN’s morning shows.
“I wanted to say I love waking up WITH YOU every morning, but I want to say I love waking up WITH YOU every morning,” he said.
Camerota spoke out afterwards to downplay any impropriety.
“It’s the oldest joke in the book made against morning show hosts, both men and women.
Camerota has been married to husband Tim Lewis since 2002. The couple has three children together
Zucker is currently selling his $16 million home in Amagansett
‘I hear it a few times a week from people in the supermarket. That’s not harassment in my opinion, nor did I deafen it,” she said at the time.
Zucker moved on last February after his relationship with Gollust went public, and the pair have remained together ever since.
In Italy, they were joined by Lemon, another network victim, and his partner Tim.
Camerota’s husband Tim Lewis has yet to comment on his wife’s photos from the weekend.
Zucker’s home in Amagansett is listed for $15,995,000.
When he and Gollust announced their relationship last year, they said it had blossomed from a friendship into a romance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He had divorced wife Caryn years earlier in 2018 and Gollust had divorced her husband the year before.
However, some sources close to the couple denied their version of events, insisting that they had in fact had a years-long affair dating back to when they worked together at NBC.
Their two families lived in the same apartment building on the Upper East Side for a time.
Zucker and his wife Caryn divorced in 2018, four years before his relationship with Gollust led to his departure from CNN