Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen. Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Robert De Niro’s girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, was not a fan of his relationship along with his former assistant Graham Chase Robinson.
De Niro, 80, testified in opposition to Robinson, 41, in a New York Metropolis courtroom on Monday, October 30, 4 years after Robinson accused the actor of being an abusive boss throughout her time working for him from 2008 to 2019. In accordance with the Related Press, throughout his testimony, De Niro stated Chen was suspicious of Robinson. The AP stories that it was recommended that Robinson acted like De Niro’s spouse and had “imaginary intimacy” with him.
“She felt there was one thing there and he or she might have been proper,” De Niro stated of his girlfriend’s observations. Chen and De Niro met on the set of 2015’s The Intern and started relationship in 2021. The couple welcomed their first baby collectively — De Niro’s seventh — daughter Gia, in April.
Robinson’s legal professional, Andrew Macurdy, denied any romance hypothesis between his shopper and De Niro, stating, “There was by no means something romantic between the 2 of them.” Macurdy subsequently alleged that Chen turned jealous of De Niro’s reliance on Robinson to do a number of duties similar to adorning his Christmas tree, appearing as his emergency contact, writing greeting playing cards for his youngsters and transporting him to the hospital after he cracked his again in 2017.
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Within the lawsuit, Robinson accused De Niro yelling at her, calling her names and making sexist remarks. Since Robinson give up her job in 2019, Macurdy stated his shopper has been unable to seek out work and is afraid to depart her residence. She is suing for $12 million in emotional damages and hurt in opposition to her popularity.
De Niro reportedly appeared aggravated throughout Monday’s trial and raised his voice twice throughout his testimony, per the AP. When requested whether or not he thought Robinson was a great worker, he responded, “Not after every little thing I’m going by means of now.”
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The Killers of the Flower Moon star shouted once more whereas discussing placing Robinson in command of a number of the preparations of a five-bedroom NYC townhouse he purchased for himself and Chen. “It’s not like I’m asking for her to go on the market and scrape flooring and mop the ground,” he said, including, “So that is all nonsense!”
De Niro’s legal professional, Richard Schoenstein, described him as a “sort, cheap [and] beneficiant” boss and advised jurors that workers of De Niro’s firm, Canal Productions, would show that of their upcoming testimonies. Schoenstein claimed that Robinson “all the time performed the sufferer” and described her as “condescending, demeaning, controlling [and] abusive.”
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In her October 2019 lawsuit, obtained by NBC Information, Robinson said that a number of the “demanding duties” that she did for De Niro included buttoning his shirts, scratching his again and cleansing his condo. Concerning his sexist feedback, Robinson known as her former boss “somebody who has clung to outdated mores,” including, “He doesn’t settle for the concept males ought to deal with girls as equals. He doesn’t care that gender discrimination within the office violates the regulation.”
Robinson additionally alleged Canal Productions underpaid her as a consequence of her gender. In a countersuit, Canal Productions sued Robinson for allegedly spending hundreds of {dollars} of the corporate’s cash, binge-watching Netflix on the job and transferring tons of of hundreds {dollars} in airline miles to her private account, amongst different allegations, in keeping with The New York Instances.
Following the preliminary information of the lawsuit, lawyer Tom Harvey known as Robinson’s allegations in opposition to De Niro “past absurd” in an announcement to Us Weekly.
