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Robert De Niro furiously testifies in $12m Manhattan showdown with ex-assistant who claims he’s boss from hell
Goodfellas star Robert De Niro has defended himself in courtroom after his former assistant filed a lawsuit claiming she was harassed and overworked.
Graham Chase Robinson filed her lawsuit after she stop being De Niro’s assistant in 2019, after 11 years of working for him.
Within the swimsuit, Robinson alleged De Niro made sexual jokes in her presence, shouted at her, known as her abusive names, and made her do the whole lot from scratching his again to adorning his Christmas tree.
She is now suing De Niro for $12 million in damages for ‘extreme emotional misery and reputational hurt’; claims De Niro denied in courtroom as ‘nonsense’.
The actor, who appeared ‘grumpy as he took the stand in Manhattan on Monday (30 October), raised his voice a number of occasions throughout his testimony as he reacted angrily to the claims.
Whereas on the stand, De Niro agreed that he had listed Robinson as his emergency contact and relied on her with duties, together with serving to with greeting playing cards for his kids.
Nonetheless, when requested if he thought Robinson had been a conscientious worker, he quipped: “Not after the whole lot I am going by way of now.”
De Niro raised his voice when Robinson’s lawyer advised he had bothered her within the early hours of the morning in 2017, when he wanted to go to hospital.
“That was one time after I cracked my again falling down the steps,” De Niro stated.
When requested why he did not ask for assist from his then-wife, Grace Hightower, De Niro responded: “She was sleeping, I didn’t need to hassle her.”
De Niro additionally insisted through the trial that he handled Robinson nicely after he purchased a five-bedroom townhouse in Manhattan and requested her to supervise a number of the preparations there.
“It isn’t like I am asking for her to go on the market and scrape flooring and mop the ground. So that is all nonsense,” he stated.
Robinson has claimed she was on the receiving finish of tirades from De Niro, with one such instance given in a voicemail included within the lawsuit.
“You f**king don’t reply my calls. How dare you? You’re about to be fired. You’re f**king historical past,” De Niro stated within the recording, which is undated.
“That is bulls**t. How dare you f**king disrespect me? You gotta be f**king kidding me, you spoiled brat! F**okay you!”
The courtroom was additionally proven correspondence between De Niro and his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, who appeared to specific suspicion about Robinson’s motives.
In accordance with courtroom papers, Chen wrote in a single message: “Her possessive method over the home makes me very uncomfortable, all the way down to having the cable invoice and the safety system password be [in] her title.
“It’s all very bizarre and she or he just isn’t easing up with the bizarre sh*t both. I do really feel it’s getting worse.”
“She felt there was one thing there and she or he could have been proper,” De Niro advised the courtroom.
When requested additional about Chen’s relationship with Robinson, De Niro claimed his former assistant had ‘disrespected’ his girlfriend.
Robinson’s legal professionals argued their shopper was by no means romantically concerned with De Niro.
The authorized battle took place after De Niro sued Robinson in August 2019, claiming she had watched Netflix whereas working and stole hundreds of thousands of De Niro’s frequent flyer miles.
De Niro’s lawsuit then prompted Robinson to hit again along with her personal lawsuit two months later.
One among Robinson’s legal professionals advised the courtroom De Niro ‘was a extremely demanding boss’, saying the actor would ‘make her life troublesome’.
UNILAD has contacted representatives for De Niro for remark.
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Kim Porter handed away on the age of 47 in 2018, with preliminary stories citing cardiac arrest, in keeping with TMZ. Practically two months later, the Los Angeles coroner’s workplace confirmed that the mannequin and actress had died from pneumonia.
Nevertheless, the mother of four—sons Quincy Taylor Brown, Christian Combs, and twin daughters D’Lila Star and Jessie James Combs—has lately returned to the highlight following the arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs, the organic father of three of her youngsters. Diddy was arrested on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution in Manhattan on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in keeping with a federal indictment. In gentle of his arrest, producer Chris Todd has revealed a 60-page e book titled Kim’s Misplaced Phrases, which claims to be a set of Porter’s diaries. “It is a harmful scenario, and I didn’t wish to declare possession of Kim’s phrases. However now I’m keen to return ahead due to the latest arrest of Sean Combs,” Todd acknowledged.
Right here’s every thing it’s worthwhile to find out about Porter.
Who Was Kim Porter?
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Kim graduated from highschool in 1988 and moved to Atlanta, in keeping with her IMDb bio. In 1991, she had her first youngster, Quincy, with Al B. Sure. Quincy was named after his godfather, legendary musician and producer Quincy Jones. When Quincy was 3 years outdated, he was adopted by Diddy after Kim started courting the rapper and Dangerous Boy Information founder.
All through her profession, Kim appeared in a number of movies and TV reveals, together with Single Women, The Brothers, and Depraved Depraved Video games.
How Was Porter and Diddy’s Relationship?
Kim and Diddy had an on-and-off relationship for years. Although they formally break up in 2007, they reunited a number of instances and had been even pictured collectively on a Caribbean getaway in 2010, as reported by the Daily Mail.
Regardless of their break up, Kim and Diddy remained shut associates. In a 2007 interview with Essence, Kim defined, “You know the way when two folks go their separate methods, more often than not there’s animosity? It’s not like that with us. Sean and I’ve this bond, this friendship. It’s not about ‘should you’re trustworthy to me, if I’m being trustworthy to you.’ We’re associates. I’m the particular person he can inform his innermost ideas to, and he’s that particular person for me.”
Combs praised Porter in an E! News interview, saying, “Kim is an unimaginable mom to our youngsters. We’ve been a part of one another’s lives for a few years, and I’ve at all times admired her braveness and energy. We’re one of the best of associates.”
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been sentenced to greater than 4 years in jail and a fantastic of $500,000 after being convicted on prostitution-related costs.
The disgraced music trade government was arrested from a lodge in Manhattan, New York, final September, on costs spanning sex trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion to racketeering conspiracy, and extra.
Nonetheless, throughout a high-profile court docket listening to over a number of weeks this summer time, Diddy was cleared of a few of these critical costs.
A jury discovered the 55-year-old responsible of two counts of transportation for engagement in prostitution, a violation of the Mann Act, which outlaws interstate commerce associated to prostitution.
In the present day (October 3), Choose Arun Subramanian in New York sentenced Combs to the hefty fantastic in addition to 50 months behind bars after claiming the defence’s proposal of a sentence of not more than 14 months wouldn’t be enough.
The decide mentioned Combs’ time in jail could be ‘exhausting’ for him to spend away from his household, however he would nonetheless ‘have a life afterwards’.
The court docket beforehand heard all about Combs’ extensive ‘freak-offs’; drug-fueled and sometimes days-long intercourse events, the place the Dangerous Boy Information founder would watch and movie male intercourse staff and his girlfriends.
It’s alleged the rapper ‘orchestrated’ the encounters that befell in several states throughout the US and overseas. It’s also believed he paid the ladies and the sex staff to journey for the occasion.
Combs has now been sentenced (ANGELA WEISS/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Combs was discovered responsible of two costs, one regarding intercourse staff he paid for whereas in a relationship with singer Cassie Ventura, and one other who took half in periods with one other girl he later had a relationship with who has not been named within the trial.
Every rely carried a most penalty of 10 years in jail.
Combs has been stored behind bars since his July conviction, and has protested his innocence in opposition to all the fees introduced in opposition to him.
The sentencing comes as prosecutors urged a New York federal decide earlier this week to ship Combs to jail for greater than 11 years for the crimes, claiming one in every of his accusers says she lives in concern of his launch.
“His crimes of conviction are critical and have warranted sentences over ten years in a number of instances for defendants who, like Sean Combs, engaged in violence and put others in concern,” they wrote in a pre-sentence submission on Tuesday (September 30).
Cassie took to the stand and delivered an emotional testimony in opposition to her former boyfriend (Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)
They dubbed Combs ‘unrepentant’ for his acts and that he ‘argues his victims ought to shoulder the blame’ for his habits.
“He isn’t the sufferer,” they wrote. “The Courtroom ought to give attention to the very actual results that the defendant’s conduct had on the lives of the particular victims, his victims.”
Nonetheless, his protection argued he should be sentenced to not more than 14 months in jail, stating he had already suffered throughout his 13-month-long stint behind bars and additional argued his ex girlfriends had been ‘not susceptible or exploited or trafficked or sexually assaulted throughout the freak-offs.’
Additionally they declare he has turn into a modified man whereas locked up, from being below suicide watch to reacting calmly to threats together with a violent altercation the place an inmate reportedly confronted him with a weapon.
His attorneys assert that Combs has realized his exploitation of medication contributed to the violent acts he carried out, however Diddy’s bid to have his conviction overturned completely was refused.
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