Back in our hotel at 11:30 when the show went on the air, I was startled that Carson's reference to Sarnoff was bleeped out.

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She did not go to the police at the time, but did raise the allegation in a TV chat show in 2007, when Mr Strauss-Kahn's name was bleeped out.

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