Every few months, Robert DeNiro rants about how awful Donald Trump is, but guess what? According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Graham Chase Robinson, a former VP of DeNiro’s production company, has filed a lawsuit accusing DeNiro of Sexual discrimination and harassment.
But that’s not where the story begins.
In August, Robert De Niro’s Canal Productions filed a lawsuit against an ex-employee that would go viral. In New York court, Graham Chase Robinson, Canal’s former vp production and finance, was accused of everything from abusing corporate credit cards to binge-watching “astounding hours of TV shows on Netflix,” including 55 episodes of Friends. The $6 million lawsuit was rather unusual and had the airs of being a preemptive strike against someone who wouldn’t sign a separation agreement.
Things were not happy at Canal Productions. And now we know why.
“Among other things, De Niro would direct Ms. Robinson to scratch his back, button his shirts, fix his collars, tie his ties and prod him awake when he was in bed,” it reads. “De Niro also stood idly by while his friend slapped Ms. Robinson on her buttocks.”
Robinson also claims De Niro made sexually charged comments, including calling her a “bitch” and a “brat” while labeling another female business partner a “c—.”
“De Niro made vulgar, inappropriate and gendered comments to Ms. Robinson,” continues the complaint. “He would joke with Ms. Robinson about his Viagra prescription. De Niro smirked to Ms. Robinson about his young paramour, who was around Ms. Robinson’s age. De Niro directed Ms. Robinson to imagine him on the toilet. He told Ms. Robinson that doing manual labor would ‘make a man out of you.’ De Niro suggested that Ms. Robinson could get pregnant using sperm from her (married) male co-worker.”
Robert DeNiro = Hollywood a**hole.
What are the odds that since someone has come forward, there will be a trickle of similar accusations (and perhaps even lawsuits) against DeNiro?
This is Hollywood. The only thing those people love more than attention is destroying someone else in the process. And it looks like Robert DeNiro deserves it.
/popcorn
| AoSHQ (including recordings of abusive voicemails from DeNiro)