A lawyer for the woman accusing Robert De Niro of harassment and gender discrimination isn't backing down after the actor's camp called the lawsuit from De Niro's former assistant "beyond absurd."
“Listen to the voicemail,” said Alexandra Harwin, an attorney for Graham Chase Robinson during a Friday sit-down interview with FOX Business. “It's very clear from the voicemail that Mr. De Niro left her, that what was going on here was abusive and demeaning.”
During her roughly 11 years working for De Niro’s production company Canal Productions, Robinson's lawyer said her client was discriminated against “day in and day out.”
“Ms. Robinson was asked to do things that her male colleagues were never asked to do, like scratch Mr. De Niro's back, button his buttons, tie his ties,” she added. “The whole work environment was unacceptable.”
Robinson was 25 years old when she started with the company in 2008 and worked with De Niro until April 2019. During her tenure, she rose through the ranks from executive assistant to director of productions and vice president of production and finance.
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Robinson said the 76-year-old actor and unhinged Hollywood star treated her like his “office wife,” the federal lawsuit states.
Robinson claims De Niro often went ballistic on her, once calling her a “spoiled brat” in a profanity-laced voicemail when she did not answer his phone call, according to the suit.
FOX Business reached out to De Niro on Thursday and his camp responded with this statement.
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As the bombshell voicemail was heard around the world, the crazed star of "The Irishman" was hitting the red carpet in New York for Variety's Power of New York event.
The accuser's attorney maintains the maniacal tirade by De Niro was “not an isolated incident.” “It was one example among many of the kinds of conduct that Mr. De Niro subjected Ms. Robinson to,” she said.
Harwin told FOX Business De Niro’s treatment of Robinson began during her first year of employment. "The work environment grew much worse over time and eventually became so intolerable that she had no choice but to quit," Harwin said.
The suit claims Robinson complained repeatedly and, on multiple occasions, told De Niro she wanted to resign. Robinson's team said once De Niro learned his former employee was taking legal action, the multi-millionaire struck first and filed a $6 million lawsuit of his own in August 2019 under his company name Canal Productions.