60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft’s affair with lawyer Livan Goines exposed in racy detail

Multiple Emmy and Peabody Award winning news correspondent Steve Kroft has been with 60 Minutes for more than 25 years, during which time he reported on such memorable stories as an exposé on the Cuban government’s quarantine policy for people infected with AIDS and the first interview with Hilary and Bill Clinton after allegations of adultery surfaced during Bill Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign. But now Kroft is the one in the hot seat facing allegations of adultery after a new National Enquirer cover story exposes an alleged three-year affair with attorney Lisan Goines!

69-year-old Kroft, who is married to fellow journalist Jennet Conant, issued a statement to the New York Post admitting to the affair:

I had an extramarital affair that was a serious lapse of personal judgment and extremely hurtful to my wife and family, and for that I have nothing but regret. My wife and I are committed to each other and are working hard to get past this, and consider it a private matter.

Unfortunately, this “private matter” is now VERY public as the National Enquirer has published alleged text message conversations between Kroft and Goines, a graduate of Harvard University Law School. “Miss you and all that goes with it. Especially my favorite tastes and colors … pink and brown,” Kroft reportedly wrote in one steamy exchange.

In another, Kroft continued with the taste-centric euphemisms. “Working late. Just ordered out. Would rather be eating your pudding,” he allegedly texted.

“Don’t work too hard this week bc I wanna wear you out afterward,” Goines replied.

“You got it,” Kroft answered.

Kroft’s fondness for associating culinary delights with sex apparently didn’t end with sexting as he reportedly liked to drink champagne that had been poured over Goines’ behind.

Kroft, who allegedly referred to himself as the “go-to” interviewer for Barack Obama in his wooing process, first met Goines back in 2011 while the two of them were at a bar in the upscale St. Regis hotel. According to the story, Kroft and Goines would eventually hook up weeks later at the $700-a-night Four Seasons hotel.

So who is Lisan Goines? She is a married 41-year-old attorney who lives and works in New York City. According to numerous online attorney websites, Goines is a partner at Park Avenue law firm Duval & Stachenfeld LLP. Here is her professional bio from one site’s profile:

Mr. Lisan L. Goines is currently employed at Duval & Stachenfeld LLP in the position of Partner. Ms. Goines joined the Firm in 2007 as a member of the Transactional Department and the Real Estate Practice Group. Ms. Goines has experience in various aspects of corporate law, including domestic and international securities transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and PIPE transactions as well as other financing arrangements. She has advised numerous domestic and international clients on securities and general corporate matters, including filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and issues relating to the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Ms. Goines has represented issuers and underwriters in shelf registrations, public debt and equity securities issuances and private placement transactions. She has significant experience with private equity, joint venture and strategic mergers and acquisitions. She has also worked with insurance companies on issues of corporate governance and compliance as well as securities and insurance regulation. Ms. Goines received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1999, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and an A.B. from Harvard University in 1995. She is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. Before joining Duval and Stachenfeld LLP, Ms. Goines was an associate with Baker & McKenzie LLP and with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where her practice consisted primarily of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

There’s not a lot online about Goines personally, but I did manage to dig up this article from 1993 in which Goines, then still a student at Harvard, talked about horoscopes:

“I love them,” says Lisan L. Goines ’95, a Libra, although she doesn’t believe in the predictions because they always forecast “good stuff.”

But Goines says that inadequacy doesn’t stop her from using them for certain social purposes. “I do research on the guys that I stalk.”

According to Gawker, here are a couple of photos from her Facebook page , which I am guessing will not be public for very long:

 

You can find out all the racy details of Kroft and Goines’ affair in the new issue of the National Enquirer, on newsstands now.