CNN senior executive Allison Gollust was spotted outside her Upper East Side apartment early Thursday for the first time since network boss Jeff Zucker resigned in disgrace over their ongoing romance.
A somber Gollust, 49, gripped an umbrella as she strolled out of a building at 32 E. 64th St. after a gray SUV pulled up around 8:30 a.m.
A doorman walked outside and opened the SUV’s door before Gollust walked out with a little girl in tow ahead of her. The SUV then pulled off.
It’s unclear if Gollust, a former publicist who is now CNN’s chief marketing officer, was headed to the network.
The photo marks the first time Gollust has been photographed publicly since Zucker’s bombshell resignation Wednesday, in which he acknowledged their relationship.
“I acknowledged the relationship had evolved in recent years,” Zucker, 56, told CNN employees in a memo. “I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong.”
Both Gollust and Zucker had lived at the building in units on separate floors with their former spouses. Sources told Page Six the CNN honcho moved Gollust into the building where he lived with his then-wife of 21 years, Caryn Zucker, before the two divorced in 2019.
Jeff and Caryn Zucker told Page Six in January 2018 they intended to split. Caryn later bought a home in Palm Beach, Florida, while Zucker closed on the sale of the third-floor unit for almost $15.4 million, the New York Times reported last March.
Gollust, meanwhile, is staying at CNN, much to the chagrin of some of her female colleagues at the red-faced network, who told The Post Wednesday she should be fired.
“Why is she allowed to keep her job?” a CNN insider told The Post. “CNN is supposed to be a transparent news network. How does she get away with lying about their affair for so long?”
Zucker told colleagues in his memo that the “consensual” romantic relationship with Gollust came to light during CNN’s probe into Chris Cuomo.
Gollust, who has worked alongside Zucker for 20 years, also acknowledged that her connection to Zucker “changed” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But one network source claims that’s untrue, and that the pair have “been together” for years.
“And she’s still lying about it today,” the CNN source told The Post. “The statement she made that ‘recently our relationship changed during COVID’ is a total lie.”
In 2019, about a year after Zucker’s split from Caryn, the CNN boss and Gollust were spotted apartment hunting at the swanky Belnord building on the Upper West Side, sources told Page Six at the time.
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