Robert De Niro's production company was ordered to pay his former assistant roughly $1.2 million as his gender discrimination trial came to a close Thursday. While De Niro was found not liable personally, the jury ordered Canal Productions to pay Graham Chase Robinson $1.264 million in damages. Robinson was not found liable for any of the accusations in De Niro's lawsuit against her.
Here's a look at the top five moments from the explosive trial: Robert De Niro's courtroom outburst and back-scratching request While testifying, Robert De Niro apologized to the judge after he raised his voice during questioning about a back-scratching request. 'I don't — she didn't scratch it,' the actor said on the stand, according to court transcripts obtained by Fox News Digital.
Robert De Niro's daughter allegedly sent his former assistant a threatening text mid-trial Graham Chase Robinson's legal team shared a text the former assistant received days after she first took the stand in the discrimination trial. The message seemingly came from one of Robert De Niro's daughters, according to the screenshot of the text that included the contact suggestion on the iPhone. Robinson's lawyer read the text to the judge in court. 'You disgusting little beast.
If I did, then I did. And if I called her I would have — but you could pull up whatever the deposition is that I would have been sensitive to it being a funeral, but she might have said 'It's OK, I can talk at this point, it's a whatever, a wake,'' De Niro admitted during his testimony, according to court transcripts. 'It is not like a funeral where they're putting the body into the ground or something.