The next month, it was revealed Moonves had been involved in paying a $9.5 million settlement to actress Eliza Dushku, who claimed she was written out of her starring role on CBS drama "Bull" as retaliation for reporting sexual harassment by co-star Michael Weatherly; actress Cybill Shepherd alleged in a radio interview that Moonves cancelled her sitcom, "Cybill", after she rejected his advances. On December 18, 2018, CBS announced that the board would deny Moonves his $120 million severance pay, as their investigation had found Moonves violated his contract. According to investigators, claims made by the women were credible, and led to more claims that were found to be credible during the course of the investigation. In addition, it was claimed that Moonves attempted to interfere with the investigation. Allegations of examples include Moonves refusing to cooperate with investigators, acting "evasive and untruthful" towards investigators, deleting hundreds of messages, and passing off his son's iPad as his own to investigators. On June 21, 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll wrote in a first-person essay in "New York" that Moonves sexually assaulted her in an elevator in the mid-1990s after she interviewed him for a story. Moonves denied the allegation. On April 7, 2003, Moonves portrayed himself in an episode of "The Practice". From early 2004 until its end in May 2015, Moonves made regular appearances on the "Late Show with David Letterman". One of these came when Letterman declared outrage that CBS featured his late-night competitor Jay Leno in an ad for CBS's telecast of the People's Choice Awards. Letterman jokingly warned the "CBS stooge in the control room" to call his buddies "before things turn ugly"; Moonves obliged. Later appearances took the same format, with Letterman discussing current events and the CBS network with the company's CEO. On the March 23, 2015, premiere episode of "The Late Late Show with James Corden", Moonves portrayed himself as the head of CBS who sends out a golden ticket granting whoever finds it a chance to host "The Late Late Show", in an homage to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Moonves also appeared on the September 8, 2015, premiere of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", operating a large switch he could use to switch back to reruns of "The Mentalist" if he was unhappy with the new program. Moonves is a great-nephew of Paula Ben-Gurion, born Paula Munweis, wife of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel.