CBS News has settled a lawsuit with three women who accused former CBS anchor Charlie Rose of "blatant and repeated sexual harassment" and "subsequent unlawful retaliation." 
 
 The suit against CBS News was discontinued Friday, and the terms of the settlement are confidential. The suit against Rose remains open. A CBS News spokesperson told Business Insider the matter was resolved and that the plaintiffs requested that the financial amount remain confidential. 
 
 The women who filed the suit — Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal, and Yuqing "Chelsea" Wei — worked at CBS between 2016 and 2018. They filed a suit against CBS and Rose in May in the New York Supreme Court. The suit alleged harassment, including unwanted physical touching, that they said they experienced while in their professional jobs. 
 
 Rose "sexually touched Ms. McNeal, including placing his hands on her thigh and kissing her cheek," the lawsuit alleged. It said Rose referred to Ms. Wei as "China Doll" and alleged Rose suggested that Harris and McNeal should have sex with each other. The suit alleged Rose threatened to fire the plaintiffs and "verbally abused them as part of his predatory behavior, sexual dominance over them, and retaliation against them." 
 
 The complaint also alleged CBS was aware of Rose's harassment but failed to take action and "allowed Mr. Rose and others to continue to engage in sexual harassment for decades." 
 
 Bob Bodian, an attorney for Rose, previously told news outlets that claims in the lawsuit were "without merit." Bodian did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. ||||| 
 
 Charlie Rose is interviewed on the red carpet before the start of the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington in 2014. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) 
 
 CBS News has settled a lawsuit filed by three women who accused Charlie Rose of sexually harassing them and asserted that the network had been “fully aware” of his behavior. 
 
 A statement from CBS spokeswoman Christa Robinson said, “The matter has been resolved.” 
 
 The settlement amount is confidential, at the plaintiffs' request, Robinson said. 
 
 The portion of the lawsuit that names Rose is still active, Ken Goldberg, a lawyer for the women, said in a statement Tuesday night. 
 
 “Goldberg and Fliegel LLP, counsel for the plaintiffs, confirms that the lawsuit has been settled as between the plaintiffs and CBS News,” the statement said. 
 
 The lawsuit was filed in New York State Court in May by Brooks Harris and Chelsea Wei, who worked with Rose at “CBS This Morning,” and Sydney McNeal, who had worked as one of his assistants at PBS. 
 
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 It alleged that Rose had made physical contact with the women, including “caressing and touching their arms, shoulders, waist and back, pulling them close to his body and kissing them on the cheek.” 
 
 According to the claim, Rose required Harris to have lunch and dinner with him, and he would place his hands on her thigh and would point at other women and call them prostitutes. 
 
 It also included allegations about remarks Rose made about their intelligence and ethnicity. According to the lawsuit, Rose referred to Wei as a “China Doll” and used an expletive while calling her an idiot in relation to a flight reservation. 
 
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 The lawsuit also claimed that Ryan Kadro, executive producer of “CBS This Morning,” had been warned about the attention Rose was paying to Harris. 
 
 Business Insider first reported the settlement. 
 
 Rose did not respond to a request for comment sent to his email address and to that of a lawyer who had been representing him on the case. 
 
 The three women were part of a group who during the height of the #MeToo movement accused Rose of inappropriate behavior or sexual harassment. 
 
 A total of 35 women have told The Washington Post that they were sexually harassed or were treated inappropriately by Rose during his decades-long career in television journalism. Fourteen of those women worked with Rose at CBS News, where The Post found that concerns about his conduct were raised to network managers as early as 1986 and as recently as 2017. 
 
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– Dozens of women have accused Charlie Rose of sexual misconduct stretching back decades; there's now a bit of legal closure for a handful of them. A suit in New York state alleging the 76-year-old engaged in "blatant and repeated sexual harassment" of three former junior colleagues has been settled—at least the part that contends CBS News knew about his behavior, per Business Insider. A statement from CBS spokeswoman Christa Robinson notes, "The matter is resolved," though she adds that the amount awarded to Chelsea Wei, Sydney McNeal, and Katherine Brooks Harris has been kept confidential at the women's request, the Washington Post reports. Wei and Brooks Harris worked with Rose at CBS, McNeal at PBS. Among the accusations in the suit: that Rose caressed and touched parts of their bodies like their arms, shoulders, and waist and kissed them on the cheek. There was also verbal denigration, the women contend, with Rose pointing out other women and calling them prostitutes, as well as calling Wei an idiot and a "China doll," the suit alleges. While CBS may now be done with this complaint, Rose isn't yet in the clear: The women's lawyer says the part of the suit that names him directly is still in play. The Post says it has heard from 35 women in total who have accusations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate behavior by Rose.