Steve Kroft Affair: ’60 Minutes’ Host & Journalist Admits To Extramarital Activity, ‘I Have Nothing But Regret’ [PHOTO]
He's known for helping bring huge stories to the public eye on 60 Minutes, but Steve Kroft will likely be wishing his private life had stayed completely behind closed doors.
The veteran journalist, who has been with the primetime news magazine show for 26 years and has won five Peabody awards, has admitted to having a steamy extramarital affair with Harvard-educated lawyer Lisan Goines, which was first reported in The National Enquirer.
"I had an extramarital affair that was a serious lapse of personal judgment and extremely hurtful to my wife and family, and for that I have nothing but regret," he said in a statement. "My wife and I are committed to each other and are working hard to get past this, and consider it a private affair."
Kroft and Goines reportedly carried on with their affair for three years, which reportedly consisted of several explicit text messages and hotel hook-ups, after meeting at a bar in the St. Regis hotel in New York in 2011. At the time, Kroft reportedly told Goines he needed to see her again, and the two consummated their affair a few weeks later at the Four Seasons hotel.
The affair reportedly took place at hotels in both New York and Washington DC, but eventually soured after Kroft allegedly never paid for Goines' travel to the Nation's capital except for one encounter.
"Of all the times she traveled to meet him in DC, Steve only paid once, and as the affair continued, the affairs went on from luxury to kind of low end," a source told National Enquirer. "The whole thing soured because she got to the point where it was only about Steve. Lisan never wanted him to leave his wife, and she never contemplated leaving her husband and she told him it was best that it end."
The two still continued to meet for drinks however, and were caught by Enquirer photographers after making out in the back of a taxi after one such meeting at the Essex House's Southgate Bar and Restaurant.
Kroft, who snagged the infamous stand-by-your-man interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1992 as rumors of affairs swirled around the then Arkansas-Governor and Presidential Candidate, was also the first journalist to score a post-election sit-down interview with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle. He has been a reporter for CBS for 31 years.
He has been married to author and fellow journalist, Jennet Conant, since 1991.
