| Bob De Niro
Assistant Chase Robinson Wins on Gender
Discrimination by His Company Canal
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 9 – Robert De Niro and
Canal Productions were sued in
2019 for gender discrimination
by Graham Chase Robinson, who
had begun working as De Niro's
executive assistant in 2008,
at 25 years old.
She said
she was discriminated against
- then De Niro sued her, and
she sued him.
On November 9, a
jury found De Niro himself not
liable - but found his company
Canal liable, for $632,142.68
on gender discrimination, and
the same for retaliation, see
below.
Back on March 10,
2020 U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge
Katharine H. Parker held
a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it. Inner
City Press had previously
checked in on the case, on
January 30, 2020, here.
"in SDNY, Robert
De Niro is being sued by
former employee Graham Chase
Robinson for gender
discrimination, not paying
overtime - and retaliating. De
Niro's lawyers complaint to
SDNY Magistrate Judge Parker
that the plaintiff won't say
to whose salary she's
comparing what she was paid."
The case
was reassigned to District
Judge Lewis J. Liman; a
protective order was filed.
On October 30,
2023, the trial is set to
begin with jury selection, and
to sit daily from 9 to 5. It
begin a civil case, each side
gets 20 hours...
Inner City
Press called to cover the June
28, 2021 conference, and found
the defendants hammering away
at plaintiff Robinson's
alleged misrepresentations.
On December 15,
2021, there was another
conference, that Inner City
live tweeted here
On January 31,
2022 Judge Parker held another
proceeding and Inner City
Press again covered it. Judge
Parker extended discovery,
reluctantly she said, "for the
sole purpose of deposing the
five individuals identified by
Plaintiff: Mr. Robert De Niro,
Mr. Michael Kaplan, Tom
Harvey, Michael Tasch and
Tiffany Chen.
Jump cut to the
first day of trail on October
30, 2023. De Niro was on the
stand being questioned about
his texts with Tiffany Chen,
who accused the plaintiff of
"imaginary intimacy." Thread
On November 3,
Inner City Press managed to
really live tweet some of the
trial, on SDNYLIVE, thread
Closing arguments
on Patreon here
The case is
Robinson v. De Niro et al.,
19-cv-9156 (Liman)
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