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ABC's 'secret' $105M gamble on Stephanopoulos

• http://pagesix.com, By Emily SmithMay

The "Good Morning America" and "This Week" anchor renewed his contract last year for $105 million, TV industry sources told The Post Monday.

The seven-year deal — which dwarfs the five-year, $50 million contract scored by since-suspended NBC rival Brian Williams — was supposed to keep Stephanopoulos in front of ABC's cameras through 2021.

But now his credibility, and future, have been called into question since he admitted Friday that he had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation since 2011, just as the presidential race gears up with Hillary Rodham Clinton the leading Democrat.

In a mea culpa delivered Sunday on "This Week," Stephanopoulos, who was also a top aide in President Bill Clinton's White House, said the gifts "were a matter of public record, but I should have made additional disclosures on air when we covered the foundation."


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