Jury awards $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former assistant in gender discrimination lawsuit

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury says Robert De Niro’s company should pay more than $1.2 million to his former personal assistant after finding his production company engaged in gender discrimination and retaliation. While the jury found De Niro was not personally liable for the abuse, they said his production company, Canal Productions, should make two payments of $632,142 to his longtime personal assistant, Graham Chase Robinson. He has been ensnared in dueling legal claims since Robinson quit in April 2019. She has maintained that De Niro and his girlfriend teamed up against her to turn a job she once loved into a nightmare. The 80-year-old actor told jurors that the 41-year-old former assistant stole about $85,000 in airline miles from him.