The stunning career demise of Charlie Rose — made even sadder because of his intellect and talent — will strike chords in many places you may not be aware of.

As CBS, PBS, and Bloomberg remove Charlie from everything connected to them, the results are going to cause seismic waves in New York and Washington society as well as media.

First and foremost is that since 1993, Charlie’s lady friend, girl friend, whatever you want to call it is Amanda Burden, 73. She is the stepdaughter of the late William S. Paley, founder of CBS. Burden’s mother was Babe Paley, the most popular and well known society hostess from the Fifties and Sixties. Truman Capote was her best friend until he wrote cattily about her in a book that detailed her and her friends’ lives, especially the first ever Black and White Ball.

Through Burden, Rose’s connections spread far and wide and gave him entree to powerful people all over the world. Amanda Burden, though she has worked hard to create a professional profile, is basically an American princess, with family ties to names like Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, and so on through her mother, and everything in media through Paley.

Burden’s marriages– she was born Amanda Mortimer– were to socialite Carter Burden and to Warner Communications founder Steve Ross. She divorced both of them. Rose and Burden do not live together and have had several ups and downs. At one point they had a nasty tabloid break up but then got back together. Burden, through the years, has turned into a city planning expert and now works for Mike Bloomberg.And that’s a problem for Charlie since the two networks he works for– CBS and Bloomberg– are each tied to his girlfriend.

It was Bloomberg News that saved the Charlie Rose show years ago when PBS didn’t have the funding for it. The show became a hit and had resources once Bloomberg got involved. It’s shot in the very amazing Bloomberg building at 58th St. and Lexington Avenue. This is a far cry from the PBS HQ on West 58th St. and Eighth Avenue. It was as the new Charlie Rose show took off that Rose started appearing on “60 Minutes” and eventually hosting “CBS Morning News.” It’s no coincidence that Amanda Burden was the unseen hand behind all this.

But the revelations can’t be new to Burden, who probably knows all about Charlie’s personal life. Fed up, she could easily be a source for the stories as Bob Weinstein was for his own brother.

And what now? The Charlie Rose Show archives are immense and important. No matter what he’s done in his personal life, two decades of interviews with politicians, artists, actors, etc can’t just be erased– indeed, quite the opposite. Mike Bloomberg’s not going to throw them out. So stay tuned. In 20 years, people will be viewing them well apart from the scandal.

CBS has suspended Charlie Rose. In what had to be a painful report, Anthony Mason announced the suspension tonight on the CBS Evening News.

Video: Here's a portion of @CBSEveningNews's @AnthonyMasonCBS & @JimAxelrod solemnly reporting on the @CharlieRose sexual misconduct claims pic.twitter.com/XKnSzjB6Lh

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 20, 2017

The Washington Post has just broken today’s sexual misconduct story, or should I say this afternoon’s disappointing revelation of 8 women who are accusing Charlie Rose of surprising and upsetting behavior.

As with Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Mark Halperin and so on, it would seem very difficult for Rose to remain on the air given this story. It’s utterly crazy– more claims of abuse of power, walking around naked in front of employees and young women, making passes, in appropriate to say the least.

It’s heartbreaking, coming right on the heels of Al Franken, for example. Smart men doing stupid things– not just stupid but insane things, not imaginable. Talented men who assumed they could get away with anything.

Each revelation brings the end to a career, a respected and heralded career, media institutions whom we relied on. I’ve known Charlie Rose for 25 years. How could this be?

Rose’s producer, Yvette Vega, one of the best people I know in media, apparently knew what was going on. She admits as much to the Post. She was between her own rock and a hard place, so to speak. What do you do and still keep your job?

This isn’t over, the so-called Weinstein Effect. Women and men are feeling empowered to tell their stories. The only upside is that the victims can sleep better at night.

For CBS the Rose story is a blow. He hosts “CBS Morning News” with Gayle King. He also contributes to “60 Minutes” and to other news shows. PBS and Bloomberg rely on “The Charlie Rose” show as a staple. Rose’s absence– temporary or permanent– is huge. This is tragic on a Shakespearean level.

My statement in full. pic.twitter.com/3kvFrqF2dT

— Charlie Rose (@charlierose) November 20, 2017

Remember Glenn Thrush? In Melissa McCarthy’s famous Emmy winning “SNL” sketch as Sean Spicer, McCarthy– as the then White House press secretary– cried: “Everyone here hates Glenn Thrush.”

Now Vox has broken a story about charges of sexual harassment against Thrush, and the Times has suspended him pending review. Thrush may have known this was in the works. He ignominiously closed his Twitter account two months ago, on September 19th, after running to a lot of flack.

Thrush is also best known as the best friend at the Times of Maggie Haberman, who is often a Trump apologist to get in the president’s good graces.

Spicer, Sarah Huckster Sanders, and Trump himself, maybe even The Mooch are probably raising a glass of Champagne right now. This is a black eye for the Times at the moment it’s least needed.

Take a look back at Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Moynihan. Prescient, no?