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Mike Bloomberg says he will release women from non-disclosure agreements

Mike Bloomberg on Friday announced he would release women from three non-disclosure agreements if they wanted to speak publicly about sexual harassment while working at his media company.

The decision came two days after Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted the media mogul’s record with women on Wednesday night’s debate stage. Bloomberg rebuffed her demand he release female employees from the gag agreements but has since reversed that stance.

“I’ve had the company go back over its record and they’ve identified 3 NDAs that we signed over the past 30-plus years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made,” he announced on his website on Friday afternoon.

The billionaire presidential candidate said he now realized the agreements, especially when used for sexual harassment allegations, “promote a culture of silence in the workplace.” It’s unclear how many former female employees the agreements apply to.

“If any of them want to be released from their NDA so that they can talk about those allegations, they should contact the company and they’ll be given a release,” he continued.

The 78-year-old founder of media company Bloomberg LP has been dogged by dozens of lawsuits which accuse him of sexual harassing female employees, including telling one of them “I would do you in a second.”

In the debate’s opening moments, Warren blasted Bloomberg as “a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians.”

It’s unclear how many NDAs Bloomberg signed with female employees and what happened to the women in the other cases.

“I’ve done a lot of reflecting on this issue over the past few days and I’ve decided that for as long as I’m running the company, we won’t offer confidentiality agreements to resolve claims of sexual harassment or misconduct going forward,” he wrote.

Bloomberg became frustrated during his disastrous debate debut as Warren skewered him over the agreements — the mogul at one point rolling his eyes and claiming “They’ve signed those agreements, and we’ll live with it.”

“None of them accuse me of doing anything, other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told,” Bloomberg said.