Robert De Niro took to the witness stand on Tuesday throughout the civil trial for a four-year authorized battle that has been occurring between the legendary actor and a former worker.
De Niro was introduced as much as the stand on Tuesday in New York Metropolis (through Deadline), the place he was requested a litany of questions on his time because the employer of Graham Chase Robinson. Whereas being questioned about his conduct with Robinson, De Niro appeared to brush off any solutions that he was not cordial with anybody.
“Give me a break with these items,” De Niro stated towards the tip of his second day of fielding questions from the lawyer, Andrew Macurdy. “You bought us all right here for this?”
“I don’t take liberties with individuals who work for me,” De Niro went on to say, whereas noting that the trial was “so ridiculous, I don’t know what to say…She implies that she’s out in entrance of the constructing on her knees scrubbing the ground.”
Regardless of the denial of lewdness, De Niro did admit that he had, at occasions, “berated” Robinson. In response to a report from the trial from Individuals, De Niro acknowledged he had known as Robinson names, however by no means yelled at anybody.
“Yeah, high quality, I berated her,” stated De Niro, whereas additionally acknowledging that he had known as Robinson “petulant,” “snippy” and a “f——g spoiled brat” at occasions.
“I’ve raised my voice,” De Niro stated. “I don’t yell. You wanna dispute that? That’s one factor I don’t do.”
What’s the scenario between Robert De Niro and Graham Chase Robinson?
In 2008, Robinson started working as an govt assistant to De Niro, and would find yourself because the Vice President for Manufacturing and Finance at De Niro’s Canal Productions by 2019, when she left the corporate.
After leaving, the corporate sued Robinson for $6 million, alleging that she would spend her work days watching Netflix, charged private meals and different objects to the corporate’s bank card, and most significantly, had transferred greater than $450,000 in airline miles from the corporate to herself as she left.
In consequence, Robinson counter-sued Canal Productions for $12 million. In her lawsuit, Robinson alleged that De Niro and the manufacturing firm was in violation of New York Metropolis’s Human Rights Legislation, and stated that the legendary actor had directed sexist feedback at her, and had additionally compelled her to do “stereotypically feminine job duties that have been inconsistent together with her job title,” (through Individuals) all whereas paying her much less.
