As Robert De Niro's employee discrimination trial continues, his baby mama has seemingly emerged as a key figure in the actor's former assistant's allegations. Graham Chase Robinson, who worked for De Niro from 2008 until 2019, and the 'Flowers of the Killer Moon' actor are in court over the assistant's lawsuit accusing De Niro of gender discrimination.
No one tells me what to do in my office, period,' De Niro said on the stand, according to the court transcript. Chen and De Niro first met in 2015 while the actor was filming 'The Intern.' Chen appeared in the film as a tai chi instructor. The pair claims they didn't begin dating until years later after his tumultuous divorce from Grace Hightower.
This 'imaginary intimacy,' as Chen referred to it in text messages shown in court, allegedly caused problems between the girlfriend and former assistant. At one point, Chen accused Robinson of purposely forgetting to cater food for a chartered flight. 'In my experience, on private planes they rarely have a mixup like Chase claims happened,' Chen wrote to De Niro in a text read during court testimony. 'I don't trust her when it comes to me.
Robinson has maintained that she was tasked with putting together and decorating the townhome in 2018 despite being promoted to vice president of production and finance. Robinson testified in her deposition that 'y job at Productions kind of had been redirected to all of this gender female role where I was handling this housework and vacuuming and doing all of these things. … It had nothing to do with VP production of finance.
In 2022, Robinson came forward to accuse De Niro of retaliation with his 2019 lawsuit. The former assistant alleged she uncovered text messages between De Niro's employees that proved the actor's lawsuit was filed to 'humiliate' her, according to court documents previously obtained by Fox News Digital. In one text exchange, a longtime employee of De Niro reportedly said that Robinson 'was threatening to sue bob so they wanted to ruin her first.
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