Robert De Niro subjected female employee to creepy and abusive behavior: lawsuit

[jack_spratt]

Robert De Niro routinely subjected his longtime employee to creepy and abusive behavior, including leaving her voicemails threatening “you’re f—ing history” and calling her a “bitch” and a “brat,” an explosive new lawsuit charges.
Graham Chase Robinson says for years she was the victim of “gratuitous unwanted physical contact” from the Oscar winner, who also hurled “sexually-charged comments to her” when she worked at his production company, Canal Productions Inc

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[jack_spratt]

Robert, you mutt!

 

[pinball wizard]

#hashtagme3

 

[Milano]

Believable. Great actor but that's all.

 

[now05ster]

So far it's only one person alleging this type of behaviour.

*Bookmarks for future ref.

 

[Rubberpigg]

19 Aug 2019

De Niro's company sues ex-employee for $6m for embezzlement and Netflix bingeing

Chase Robinson, who until recently held a senior role in Robert De Niro’s film production company, has been sued by her former employer for $6m.

According to Variety, which saw papers filed in a state court on Saturday, Robinson – whose most recent position was vice-president of production and finance at Canal Productions – is accused of embezzling money and wasting time during office hours watching television shows.

The suit states that Robinson, who left the company in April on a $300,000 annual salary amid growing concerns of “corporate sabotage”, abused expense accounts to pay restaurant and hotel bills and used millions of De Niro’s own frequent flyer miles for personal trips.

It continues to allege that Robinson wasted “astronomical amounts of time” watching Netflix during work hours, including 55 episodes of Friends during one four-day period in January. Another four-day period saw her view 20 episodes of Arrested Development and 10 of Schitt’s Creek.

The suit states: “Watching shows on Netflix was not in any way part of or related to the duties and responsibilities of Robinson’s employment and, on information and belief, was done for her personal entertainment, amusement and pleasure at times when she was being paid to work.”

According to the claim, Robinson’s apparent Friends binge coincided with charging lunch from the high-end delivery service Caviar San Francisco and dinner at Paola’s Restaurant (where secondi start at $28) to the company card.
It is alleged that over two years, Robinson racked up $12,696.65 in unauthorised charges at Paola’s, as well as $8,923.20 at the luxury grocers Dean and Deluca and Whole Foods, and $32,000 for Ubers and taxis.

Robinson still lists herself as employed by the company on LinkedIn, although her resignation email apparently dismissed concerns about her expenditure as “ridiculous”.
The claim states that De Niro refused to sign a self-penned recommendation letter for Robinson.
The Guardian has contacted Robinson for comment.

De Niro is shortly to be seen opposite Joaquin Phoenix in The Joker, as well as in Netflix’s The Irishman, his latest reunion with Martin Scorsese.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...o-sues-ex-employee-embezzlement-netflix-binge

 

[ponder]

Might be true might be false but when it comes to these Hollyweird types it's probably true. $6m lawsuit for watching netflix seems like deflection, really is that all you got?

 

[mercurial]

Innocent until proven guilty. I don't trust what women say these days...

 

[Craig_]

Might be true might be false but when it comes to these Hollyweird types it's probably true. $6m lawsuit for watching netflix seems like deflection, really is that all you got?

*and embezzlement.....

 

[Urist]

#boohoo, my boss was an arsehole... welcome to the world.

 

[Polymathic]

Was this the same bitch that spent all her time watching friends?

 

[VooDooC]

This looks like a case where she got kicked to the curb for wasting company time and money, embezzlement, etc and now she's looking for an easy pay day.

Looks like there is a new card in the play deck, the sexual harassment card...

 

[MEIOT]

When will this shite end!

 

[Solarion]

I've had a boss like this, just without the physical stuff. Essentially a good guy at heart but had major control issue. All the girls in the office were terrified of him. After he threatened to assault me I handed in resignation. "I will **** you up!" were his last words to me.

 

[ShaunSA]

The 12mill going to help dry her tears?

o/t Schitts Creek?

 

[Nanfeishen]

Company lawyers appear to be running a classic smear campaign.

 

[borro]

You can tell she is very uncomfortable.

 

[noxibox]

Company lawyers appear to be running a classic smear campaign.

Could be, although they appear to have managed to sue first which makes her legal action look like retaliation. The abusive and exploitative behaviour, like swearing at employees, threatening them and demanding unreasonable working hours, is pretty believable and isn't unusual for US businesses.

 

[konfab]

 

[Ninja'd]

19 Aug 2019

De Niro's company sues ex-employee for $6m for embezzlement and Netflix bingeing

Chase Robinson, who until recently held a senior role in Robert De Niro’s film production company, has been sued by her former employer for $6m.

According to Variety, which saw papers filed in a state court on Saturday, Robinson – whose most recent position was vice-president of production and finance at Canal Productions – is accused of embezzling money and wasting time during office hours watching television shows.

The suit states that Robinson, who left the company in April on a $300,000 annual salary amid growing concerns of “corporate sabotage”, abused expense accounts to pay restaurant and hotel bills and used millions of De Niro’s own frequent flyer miles for personal trips.

It continues to allege that Robinson wasted “astronomical amounts of time” watching Netflix during work hours, including 55 episodes of Friends during one four-day period in January. Another four-day period saw her view 20 episodes of Arrested Development and 10 of Schitt’s Creek.

The suit states: “Watching shows on Netflix was not in any way part of or related to the duties and responsibilities of Robinson’s employment and, on information and belief, was done for her personal entertainment, amusement and pleasure at times when she was being paid to work.”

According to the claim, Robinson’s apparent Friends binge coincided with charging lunch from the high-end delivery service Caviar San Francisco and dinner at Paola’s Restaurant (where secondi start at $28) to the company card.
It is alleged that over two years, Robinson racked up $12,696.65 in unauthorised charges at Paola’s, as well as $8,923.20 at the luxury grocers Dean and Deluca and Whole Foods, and $32,000 for Ubers and taxis.

Robinson still lists herself as employed by the company on LinkedIn, although her resignation email apparently dismissed concerns about her expenditure as “ridiculous”.
The claim states that De Niro refused to sign a self-penned recommendation letter for Robinson.
The Guardian has contacted Robinson for comment.

De Niro is shortly to be seen opposite Joaquin Phoenix in The Joker, as well as in Netflix’s The Irishman, his latest reunion with Martin Scorsese.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...o-sues-ex-employee-embezzlement-netflix-binge

I dunno, this reads more like a PR stunt for Netflix and the Irishman.