Robert De Niro, Tiffany Chen. Arnold Jerocki/Getty Photographs for Air Mail/Warner Brothers Discovery
Robert De Niro’s girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, took the stand in opposition to his former assistant Graham Chase Robinson.
Chen testified in opposition to Robinson on Thursday, November 2, the fourth day of De Niro’s gender discrimination trial in New York Metropolis. De Niro, 80, and his manufacturing firm, Canal Productions, initially sued Robinson, 41, in 2019 for allegedly spending hundreds of {dollars} of the corporate’s cash, binge-watching Netflix on the job and transferring a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} in airline miles to her private account, per the New York Instances.
In response, Robinson countersued De Niro in 2019 and accused the actor of being an abusive boss whereas she labored for him from 2008 to 2019. (Robinson began as an assistant for De Niro earlier than finally getting promoted to vp of manufacturing and finance in 2018. She finally resigned one 12 months later.)
Throughout her Thursday testimony, Chen claimed that Robinson was “mean-spirited,” “nasty to individuals” and a “fairly horrible particular person” whereas employed by De Niro, based on Leisure Tonight. A collection of textual content messages between Chen and De Niro about Robinson had been additionally shared aloud whereas Chen was on the stand.
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“, and agree that she’s been intentionally unkind, inappropriate and a straight-up bitch,” Chen’s message learn.
Chen’s texts additionally allegedly accused Robinson of being “so out of line and misplaced in her fantasy” and was solely involved in “his bank card, not him.”
“Should you preserve her, you and I’ll finally have issues,” Chen wrote to De Niro earlier than Robinson left her job.
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Chen’s testimony echoed comparable sentiments that De Niro shared whereas he was on the stand earlier that week. The Killers of the Flower Moon star appeared in court docket on Monday, October 30, and claimed that Robinson had an “imaginary intimacy” with him and that Chen was suspicious of her habits.
“She felt there was one thing there and he or she could have been proper,” De Niro recalled of his girlfriend’s observations. Robinson’s lawyer, Andrew Macurdy, denied any romance hypothesis between his consumer and the Oscar winner.
In Robinson’s lawsuit, she claimed that De Niro yelled at her, referred to as her names and made sexist remarks throughout her tenure. After quitting in 2019, Macurdy stated Robinson has been unable to seek out work and is afraid to go away her dwelling. She is suing for $12 million in emotional damages and hurt in opposition to her fame.
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Whereas on the stand, De Niro reportedly appeared aggravated through the trial and raised his voice twice throughout his testimony, per the Related Press.
In Robinson’s submitting from October 2019, she said she needed to carry out “demanding duties” for De Niro together with buttoning his shirts, scratching his again and cleansing his condo, based on NBC Information. Robinson additionally referred to her former boss as “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.”
