When the 1 percent descends on Sun Valley, Idaho, next month for Allen & Company’s annual gathering of the moguls, news Web sites will pour forth with FOMO-inducing photography showing the titans of media, tech, and entertainment—dressed down in their finest fleece and polo shirts—hobnobbing in a bucolic mountain setting where the conference has been held since 1983. Judging by reports of the 2018 guest list in Bloomberg and Variety, gawkers can expect to see many of the same familiar faces that tend to grace the annual C.E.O. schmooze-fest every year: Shari Redstone; Les Moonves; Mark Zuckerberg; Jeff Bezos; Jeff Bewkes; Bob Iger; Rupert, Lachlan, and James Murdoch; Brian Roberts, and so on. But there’s one Sun Valley regular who, if he shows up, is likely to bring a cloud of radioactivity to the weeklong retreat, known for its off-the-record gab sessions, pristine hiking trails and, above all, the potential for furtive deal-making.

Charlie Rose has reportedly made the cut this year, despite two Washington Post exposés—one last November and one in May—that transformed the 76-year-old journalist from an august TV newsman into one of the #MeToo movement’s most ignominious poster boys. Rose was accused, by more than two dozen women, of numerous instances of sexual misconduct over the course of his five-decade career, which came to a screeching halt when he was swiftly removed from his role as the leading man of CBS This Morning and host of the Charlie Rose Show on PBS. After I tweeted a link to a Bloomberg article on Monday indicating that Rose, one in a small coterie of high-profile journalists that Allen & Company invites as guests, was “slated to attend,” the reaction among media influencers was as dumbfounded as you’d expect. “Let’s see which media C.E.O.s with #MeToo issues in their own workplaces are caught in Sun Valley snapshots with Charlie Rose,” tweeted Frank Rich, while Kara Swisher simply wrote, “Um, Charlie Rose?” Irin Carmon, one of two reporters who broke the Rose scandal, tweeted a quote from fellow Sun Valley fixture Barry Diller, in which the IAC chief told Maureen Dowd in a March 24 New York Times interview, “You get accused, you’re obliterated. Charlie Rose ceases to exist.”

The Allen invite suggests that, in certain quarters, he still very much exists, and raises the still unanswered question of what the afterlife of #MeToo men should be. Can they mingle in gated communities like the Allen & Company gathering but not in public? And how large is the gap between the public discussion of #MeToo and private ones? Kim Masters, who has been doing major #MeToo stories for The Hollywood Reporter, told me, “It’s another one of the awkward questions that has arisen in the #MeToo era: what is the level of misconduct that leads to banishment versus potential resurrection? Charlie Rose at Sun Valley is one example, but I’m sure there are also people who are saying”—about various other men accused of wrongdoing, and whether they should be welcomed at galas, conferences, parties, and the like—“Do we invite Russell Simmons? Roy Price?” And so on.

One of the top executives at Allen & Company, a boutique investment firm founded in 1922 that is famously publicity averse, didn’t return an e-mail asking about Rose, and a call to the company’s Fifth Avenue offices was likewise unfruitful. But a couple of perennial Sun Valley guests speculated that it’s likely Allen & Co. invited Rose out of loyalty, since Rose has been a faithful participant in the conference over the years, often hosting interviews with the bold-faced movers and shakers there. Journalists familiar with the event, scheduled for the week of July 10, pointed out that the guest list is generally the same year after year, barring a few additions or subtractions, and that even if a guest were to lose his or her powerful job (Sun Valley is heavy on the “his”), that person would likely still be invited to the next Sun Valley installment as a courtesy. “I think if this is an attempt at courtesy, it just puts all the other guests there in an awkward position,” said Masters. “This certainly puts some tarnish on the whole thing.” Harvey Weinstein, the undisputed monster of #MeToo, did not score a Sun Valley invite this year, according to the reports, presumably due to the criminal nature of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. (Weinstein and Rose maintain they believe all of their interactions with women have been consensual.) Sun Valley regular Tom Brokaw, who was recently accused by two former NBC News journalists of unwelcome sexual advances in the early 90s, has reportedly been invited back this year along with Rose. The accusations against the legendary broadcaster, now 78 and fighting cancer, were far more limited and less recent than those against Weinstein and Rose, and Brokaw’s public image benefited from a letter of support signed by more than 60 current and former female colleagues, including prominent Peacock figures like Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, and Stephanie Ruhle. Jerry Richardson, who recently agreed to sell the Carolina Panthers amid a workplace-misconduct probe, has been invited, too, according to Bloomberg. (Richardson declined to comment on the allegations against him to Sports Illustrated.)