Robert De Niro’s Company Ordered to Pay $1.2 Million to Ex-Assistant, Jury Rules

Robert De Niro simply misplaced massive in a New York courtroom, after a jury socked his manufacturing firm with a $1.2 million judgment.

A jury shut down De Niro’s declare that his ex-personal assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, embezzled from him. He had sought $6 million in damages however after 5 hours of deliberation, the jury tossed his declare.

The jury was far more sympathetic to Robinson’s $12 million countersuit, awarding her $1.2 mil in opposition to De Niro’s firm, Canal Productions.

De Niro testified in the course of the 2-week trial, and the jury heard in regards to the tensions between him. The actor admitted he had referred to as her a “f**king spoiled brat” when she did not wake him for an necessary appointment. He additionally admitted that he requested her to scratch his again a number of instances, however scoffed on the notion it was sexual. Robinson referred to as it “creepy” and “disgusting.”

Robinson claimed she was bullied by De Niro’s girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, whom Robinson referred to as a sociopath.