A jury found Robert De Niro's production company liable for gender discrimination and retaliation after his former assistant accused the actor of abusive behavior. While De Niro personally was not found liable, Canal Productions must pay Graham Chase Robinson $1.264 million in damages. Robinson was not found liable for any of the accusations in De Niro's lawsuit against her.
The jurors were specifically asked to decide if De Niro was liable for gender discrimination and retaliation, according to the verdict form obtained by Fox News Digital. Additionally, the jury was asked to decide if his former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, was liable for the conversion of the company's Delta SkyMiles and for breach of fiduciary duty along with breach of loyalty against De Niro's company, Canal Productions.
Robinson maintained that she was tasked with putting together and decorating De Niros' townhome in 2018 despite being promoted to vice president of production and finance. The former assistant testified in her deposition that 'y job at Productions kind of had been redirected to all of this gender female role where I was handling this housework and vacuuming and doing all of these things. … It had nothing to do with VP production of finance.
De Niro was also asked about times he requested Robinson scratch his back, which caused an outburst in the courtroom. 'I don't – she didn't scratch it,' he said on the stand. 'If she did, I said could you scratch it because I'm over here, one thing, I have an itch. Once. It is so ridiculous. It is every little thing she is trying to get on me.
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