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brestugo
10/31/23 3:16:22 PM
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https://deadline.com/2023/10/robert-de-niro-trial-testimony-1235588343/

Robert De Niro erupted on the witness stand Tuesday at his former personal assistant during the civil trial in New York City that will decide if, among other allegations, he harassed her on the job.

Shame on you, Chase Robinson! the actor shouted toward the plaintiff in a Manhattan federal courtroom filled with spectators as he was questioned by a lawyer for Graham Chase Robinson about the actors conduct. The inquiry that set him off was whether he ever audibly urinated while in a bathroom on a phone call with his assistant.

Give me a break with this stuff, De Niro said toward the end of his second day of fielding questions from the lawyer, Andrew Macurdy. You got us all here for this?

I dont take liberties with people who work for me, he said, describing the implication that he had done so was so ridiculous, I dont know what to say.

De Niro was then asked if he had required Robinson to scratch his back. He protested, gesticulating on the stand as if to demonstrate that he was asking for help with a hard-to-reach spot. He then mocked Robinson for depicting her life in De Niros employ as one of endless servitude.

She implies that shes out in front of the building on her knees scrubbing the floor, he said.

There was never any lewdness or disrespect or weirdness that youre trying to imply, De Niro said to Macurdy, his voice rising. Then came the cry of shame hurled toward Robinson as she sat facing him in the well with her lawyers.

Judge Lewis J. Liman intervened to ask whether Macurdy would finish his questioning in time for lunch.

De Niro by that point had spent about five hours on the stand in all between Monday and Tuesday being grilled about his workplace policies which he repeatedly said werent written down but were based on maxims such as trust and do the right thing and the conflicts between Robinson and his girlfriend, martial artist Tiffany Chen.

Earlier Tuesday he said, This whole case is nonsense, as he was confronted with a text to Chen in which he wrote, The balls, the nerve how dare her, after Robinson demanded a settlement and refused to waive legal claims against De Niro once she had quit the job.

Tom will get her, Chen wrote back, meaning Tom Harvey, the in-house lawyer at Canal, the company that manages De Niros business and personal affairs.

At Chens urging, and with De Niros assent, Harvey was spearheading an internal investigation into Robinsons use of a company card for personal expenses, and the alleged theft of items belonging to Canal.

Macurdy sought to attack the basis for De Niros own lawsuit seeking repayment of Robinsons salary in her last three years at Canal, and monetary damages for her use of a company charge card for expenses including meals and ride shares. Robinsons countersuit calls the De Niro suit retaliatory.

The frosty relationship between De Niros new girlfriend and his longtime personal assistant came to a head with the new couples move into a Manhattan townhouse and hastened the end of an 11-year working relationship between the Oscar winner and Robinson.

Who to blame for their professional split in 2019 is one more issue in the federal civil trial that got underway Monday. Robinson is accusing her ex-boss of gender discrimination, wage theft and retaliatory behavior. De Niro is suing Robinson for allegedly stealing from the company. The workplace theft included 5 million frequent-flier miles that Robinson transferred from Canal to herself on her way out the door, according to De Niros lawsuit.

On Monday, a De Niro attorney wasted no time depicting Robinson as a toxic employee. Her fellow employees are going to tell you the truth: She was condescending, demeaning, controlling, abusive, lawyer Richard

Schoenstein told jurors in opening statements. I could go on, but it would be better to hear from them directly when they take the stand.

She was also a good worker, her former boss said on the stand Monday. I relied on her, I trusted her, De Niro testified under questioning from Macurdy.

That trust was shattered, according to De Niro and his lawyers, when Robinson quit without notice in April of 2019 as an internal investigation of her company spending was getting underway at the urging of Chen, who De Niro met on the set of his 2015 movie The Intern.

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brestugo
10/31/23 3:21:29 PM
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I can totally see this happenning. Should have said, "You talkin' to me?"

We'll see how it shakes out, but from what it sounds like, the assistant was a grifter.

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Doom_Art
10/31/23 3:23:08 PM
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Yeah it sounds like the employee may have tried taking from the cookie jar and didn't like that they got caught.

But we'll see how this shakes out.


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ChocoboMog123
10/31/23 3:23:14 PM
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brestugo posted...
The inquiry that set him off was whether he ever audibly urinated while in a bathroom on a phone call with his assistant.
On the one hand, that's ridiculous.
On the other, fuck assholes who talk on the phone in the bathroom.

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A_Good_Boy
10/31/23 3:25:15 PM
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Dude is on the stand cause he pissed while on a phone call and asked someone to scratch his back. You really can go to trial for literally anything.

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DirkDiggles
10/31/23 3:26:46 PM
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ChocoboMog123 posted...
brestugo posted...

The inquiry that set him off was whether he ever audibly urinated while in a bathroom on a phone call with his assistant.

Shit, I do that all the time.

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Doom_Art
10/31/23 3:27:45 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
Shit, I do that all the time.
I literally accepted an offer for my current job while I was taking a shit

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brestugo
10/31/23 3:27:53 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
Shit, I do that all the time.

It can happen, yeah. It was brought to my attention one time. Fortunately, it wasn't anything serious, just talking to a friend.

If you're talking to your personal assistant, it's also in the realm of excusable, IMO. Assuming it's not intentional or deliberate.

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Inohira
10/31/23 3:30:00 PM
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Neither party comes off innocent of anything being alleged here.

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Cruciferous
10/31/23 3:34:38 PM
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how u make 300k a year and have to steal from ur company lmao

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Southernfatman
10/31/23 3:37:23 PM
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Even though that's not what happened, I'm picturing him going on a curse filled tirade like how he does in Casino. "Bullshit! Bullshit!"

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brestugo
10/31/23 3:41:42 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
Even though that's not what happened, I'm picturing him going on a curse filled tirade like how he does in Casino. "Bullshit! Bullshit!"

Yeah, same. I can vividly see him doing that.

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Irony
10/31/23 3:42:13 PM
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I saw this on that Mike Tyson cartoon

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Sandalorn
10/31/23 3:45:38 PM
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Inohira posted...
Neither party comes off innocent of anything being alleged here.


And the Contrarian arrives with his hot take....

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mybbqrules
10/31/23 3:51:44 PM
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Robinson quit without notice in April of 2019 as an internal investigation of her company spending was getting underway
Boy, this isn't like...super telling or anything.

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DrizztLink
10/31/23 3:53:47 PM
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brestugo posted...
Robert De Niro erupted on the witness stand Tuesday at his former personal assistant during the civil trial in New York City that will decide if, among other allegations, he harassed her on the job.

Shame on you, Chase Robinson! the actor shouted toward the plaintiff in a Manhattan federal courtroom
I, uh, I don't think that's gonna help your case, Rob.

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NeonTentacles
10/31/23 3:55:57 PM
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Shit I talk to people all the time while I pee >_> I try to pee on the side of the bowl so it's quiet but sometimes people can tell and I'm just like "yeah....lol" and they usually reply with "lol"

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Inohira
10/31/23 4:01:16 PM
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Sandalorn posted...


And the Contrarian arrives with his hot take....

I don't see how I'm contrarian when nobody else in the topic has disputed the allegations either.

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UnholyMudcrab
10/31/23 4:02:31 PM
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That's not great witness behavior

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BurmesePenguin
10/31/23 4:07:41 PM
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Is talking on the phone while in the bathroom harassment? While I don't think you should I don't see how it's anything beyond "Oh I don't like that!"


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Sandalorn
10/31/23 4:19:33 PM
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Inohira posted...
I don't see how I'm contrarian when nobody else in the topic has disputed the allegations either.


Can you explain the activities of De Niro that make him "not innocent" then?

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brestugo
10/31/23 4:23:18 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
Is talking on the phone while in the bathroom harassment? While I don't think you should I don't see how it's anything beyond "Oh I don't like that!"

I basically agree. It happens. When someone let me know I could be heard, I made sure not to do it audibly again, personally. IMO, unless it's somebody's idea of an erotic thrill or something intentional to be offensive, it's a nothingburger.

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StealThisSheen
10/31/23 4:28:02 PM
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brestugo posted...
Robinson quit without notice in April of 2019 as an internal investigation of her company spending was getting underway

Huh.

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Sir_Will
10/31/23 4:48:49 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Shit I talk to people all the time while I pee >_> I try to pee on the side of the bowl so it's quiet but sometimes people can tell and I'm just like "yeah....lol" and they usually reply with "lol"
That's gross as hell. Are people seriously trying to defend this?

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dameon_reaper
10/31/23 4:53:41 PM
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Sir_Will posted...
That's gross as hell. Are people seriously trying to defend this?

I don't think I'd pee while on the phone with a girl but I've pissed during my DnD session and the players can hear me pissing(doing it on purpose) and it went wild in the session lol.

I mean...they were all my close friends so I felt like that was okay since they were super chill about shit like that but I don't think I'd pee on the phone with my personal assistant or anyone else on the other line.
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sfcalimari
10/31/23 4:58:38 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
I literally accepted an offer for my current job while I was taking a shit

"Wow that's great that you've accepted our job offer. Do you have anything to add before I let you go?"

*PLOP*

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CSCA33
10/31/23 5:01:51 PM
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How hard is it to mute the phone call these days? Smartphones have the mute mic button.

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StealThisSheen
10/31/23 5:03:39 PM
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Sir_Will posted...
That's gross as hell. Are people seriously trying to defend this?

Neon? Of course not.

De Niro, though? In his position, he's probably getting calls all the time and just takes them without thinking, so yeah, I don't really see much to defend. It sounds like it didn't happen very often at all.

Granted, I'm automatically skeptical, since this person is apparently bringing all of this up in a countersuit, in response to... Being sued for theft, and that was after they "quit without warning" once their company spending started to be investigated, so... I find it all rather fishy, to begin with.

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NeonTentacles
10/31/23 5:05:31 PM
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I aint defending it. I do do it tho lol. But it's with people I know and dont care that I'm golden showering a toilet while I chew the fat. Know your audience >_>

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hitokoriX
10/31/23 5:21:01 PM
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CSCA33 posted...
How hard is it to mute the phone call these days? Smartphones have the mute mic button.

1000000 percent this! I'll just hit mute -- but only in extreme circumstances. Normally I'll ask to call back

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MICHALECOLE
10/31/23 5:25:46 PM
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Everybody pees

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Punished_Blinx
10/31/23 5:32:17 PM
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Sir_Will posted...
That's gross as hell. Are people seriously trying to defend this?

I'm not gonna get germs over a phone call. At most it's a funny story.

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NeonTentacles
10/31/23 5:37:31 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
I'm not gonna get germs over a phone call. At most it's a funny story.
Bro, we live in a civilized society. You tuck the phone in your shoulder after you touch your cock and then wash your hands before you touch your phone again. Come on, man. Aint your mom teach you manners!?

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Punished_Blinx
10/31/23 5:40:27 PM
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NeonTentacles posted...
Bro, we live in a civilized society. You tuck the phone in your shoulder after you touch your cock and then wash your hands before you touch your phone again. Come on, man. Aint your mom teach you manners!?

Oh I was talking about hearing the pisser and/or shitter but yeah that's a good tip.

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NeonTentacles
10/31/23 5:48:07 PM
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Oh my bad lol

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