Robert De Niro’s Dicrimination Trial With Former Assistant. What Really Happened to the 80-Year-Old Oscar Winner?
Being one of the most notable artists in the business, Robert De Niro has starred in many hit films, making him one of the most important actors of his generation. He recently starred in Killers of the Flower Moon, and he is well-known for his collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
Robert De Niro recently raised his voice in a courtroom when he was facing accusations of alleged gender discrimination against a former employee, an occurrence that the public may not have heard about previously. Let us know the additional details about what happened in the courtroom.
Robert De Niro calls the gender-discrimination trial ‘nonsense’
Actor Robert De Niro took the stand once again on Tuesday in New York City in his gender-discrimination trial against his former VP, production, and finance at his Canal Pictures, Graham Chase Robinson, and regarded all the allegations as ‘nonsense’.
The actor said via People, “The whole case is nonsense. It’s absurd. But I’m here!” He had also said in his Monday’s testimony that the claims by his former employee were out of proportion;,
“She is working for me; she has to do what I’m asking. It is not like I’m asking her to go out on the floor and scrape floors and go out and mop the floor. I didn’t do any of that and neither did [girlfriend Tiffany Chen], so this is all nonsense.”
However, he did agree that Chase Robinson did anything and everything within the confines of her job, but objected to the implication that it is anything and everything in his personal life.
According to CBS News, during the testimony the actor was witnessed raising his voice twice, once when he defended his girlfriend, stating that they make decisions together and secondly when he was asked if he had called Robinson up early in the morning back in 2017 to which he said that it was one time when he cracked his back falling down the stairs.
De Niro noted that he delayed calling her, making it to his bed after the accident, but later ended up calling her up at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m.
Why was Robert De Niro sued by Graham Chase Robinson?
Back in 2019, after Robinson left Canal Productions, she filed a $12 million lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor and Canal Productions for alleged violations of the New York City Human Rights Law after she was being sued by the company with alleging that she abused her position to inappropriately for personal gain.
She alleged that the Oscar-winning actor directed sexist comments at her along with assigning her the stereotypical female job duties that were irregular with her job title.
Robinson also alleged in her lawsuit that she was being paid less than a male employee due to gender-based stereotypes. The former employee had also alleged in her lawsuit that De Niro’s girlfriend had falsely accused her of being in love with the actor, which led to the actor stripping Robinson of her job duties and indirectly asking her to resign in 2019 after 11 years of working for him.
Robert De Niro says he believes in the honor system
The actor defended himself when the attorney said that the former employee claimed that she had to be on call all the time and call her as he would, as they presented various email screenshots of Robinson letting De Niro know where she was during the holidays.
De Niro said via People, “You’re making it out like I controlled her”, before adding that the issue between the two had arisen when, instead of doing what she needed to do, she was doing everything else.
The actor added,
“I believe in the honor system. I only value work if it is done right or else it reflects poorly on me.”
The trial is expected to last till November 10th.
