In July 2021, a federal judge ruled that De Niro would be allowed to re-plead the claims he’d made in state court in response to Robinson. “That’s all I’m asking: Return the things, return the air miles,” De Niro said.ĭe Niro‘s Canal Productions had filed a $6 million lawsuit against Robinson in New York state court in August 2019, alleging that Robinson had abused company credit cards and binged “astounding hours of TV shows” while on the clock. De Niro repeatedly said during this testimony, while calling the case “nonsense,” that he wanted those miles back. The questioning also spoke to claims that De Niro had filed against Robinson, alleging that she had misappropriated company funds, including taking five million Delta SkyMiles that had been accrued on the company American Express card in the months leading up to her resignation and refusing to return them after she left. In testimony Tuesday, Robinson’s counsel also claimed that De Niro had called her twice during a family member’s funeral (De Niro denied knowing she was at a funeral at the time) and asked her to deliver him a martini from his restaurant, Nobu, at 11 p.m. Additionally, she alleges that she was still asked to perform gendered tasks, such as mending clothing and doing laundry, after becoming an executive. Robinson, the former vp, production and finance at Canal Productions, De Niro’s loan-out company, alleges that De Niro made “vulgar, inappropriate and gendered comments” to her, underpaid her based on her gender and overworked her. Toward the end of questioning - after Robinson’s attorneys asked whether De Niro had mistreated Robinson as an employee, including asking her to scratch his back, among other allegations - De Niro directly addressed Robinson, who was sitting in the room.

I don’t have the time for this,” he said. “Stop it, I didn’t want to ruin anything. Robert De Niro Takes the Stand in Trial Over Former Employee's Gender Discrimination Claims

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