Her name was rather unknown to most. Until the case of actor Morgan Freeman, who is accused, like many of his colleagues, of sexual harassment against many women, came to light.
The CNN reporter who made the revelation is the Greek-American Chloe Melas, that is, Chloe Mela, who spent six months researching with her colleague Ann Pang, so that she could substantiate her allegations. Allegations that arose… experientially after Chloe herself had been the victim of harassment by Freeman.
It all started about a year ago when Mela met Freeman for an interview with co-star Michael Kane on the occasion of the movie Going in Style in which he starred. The journalist was even six months pregnant with her first child when she received provocative comments from the actor.
Some of the actor's comments were recorded by Mela with the TV camera. When she returned from maternity leave, she asked her boss on CNN for permission to investigate whether Freeman had behaved inappropriately in the past. And he struck a "gold vein" as he discovered that there had been many cases. Her report ended with eight women talking about sexual harassment by Freeman and eight witnesses supporting the allegations.
Chloe Elizabeth Mela, a descendant of Macedonian fighter Paul Mela, was born 32 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia. He currently works as a journalist for CNN, based in New York, and covers artistic reporting.
Chloe grew up in Georgia and at one point settled in Dallas. Elizabeth Murphy-Melas 'mother is a children's book writer and George Melas' father is an architect.
Chloe played the piano from the age of four until she began studying journalism at Auburn University.
After graduating in 2008, she moved to New York and began working as an assistant editor at CNN. However, a year later he resigned to work on the HollywoodLife.com website, where he eventually took over as head of artistic reporting. Chloe covered topics such as celebrity interviews, art events and exclusive business shows.
Many professional choices followed, mainly in television. In 2015, she became the face of the women's clothing company Maggy London, while she was also the presenter of the morning TV show of the VH1 network, The Gossip Table.
In October 2014, Chloe married the catering guru Brian Matsa and their love affair with her wedding dress, a bachelorette party in Mexico and finally the smallest detail of her wedding were hosted in a lot of gossip. printed matter. Photos from their wedding and the luxurious reception that followed flooded Instagram.
"In the fall of 2012, I met Brian Matsa, a New York native and restaurant guru, on a blind date. We ended up meeting at one of his restaurants and the spark ignited immediately. After four months of relationship we lived together and after eight months we got engaged. He proposed to me on a rainy summer night, July 2, 2013. He knelt down and gave me a diamond engagement ring. We opened a champagne, read a letter from his brother and called our relatives and friends… ": Finally, Chloe, as she describes herself, is not just a careerist with a sense of justice. Deep down she is a very romantic girl.