Charming. Accomplished. Visionary. And, if you believe the highly credible accusations, one more thing: abusive.
The first three qualities of CBS chief executive Les Moonves seemed as though they would allow him to stay at the peak of Hollywood power - or at least exit gracefully, parachuting from the heights with more than $100 million in severance pay.
But the women, 12 of them, who claim that he abused his power by harassing or even attacking them, would not be denied.
"These women are coming out now," reporter Ronan Farrow said Sunday on CNN, because "they have been extraordinarily frustrated by what they perceive to be inaction on the part of CBS and its board.