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☆ Robert De Niro says he was in 'disbelief' when he learned his 19-year-old grandson had died: 'It shouldn't have happened'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Robert De Niro said his 19-year-old grandson's death was "just a shock." Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez died of a drug overdose in July 2023 after ingesting fentanyl-laced pills. AdvertisementRobert De Niro reflected on the tragic death of his grandson last year, saying he felt "disbelief" when he heard the news. In a reply to a comment on her Instagram post announcing his death, Drena said her son had died after "someone sold him fentanyl laced pills." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Robert De Niro choked up while discussing his 'wondrous' experience as one of Hollywood's oldest dads
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Robert De Niro became emotional while discussing his infant daughter in an interview. The actor welcomed his seventh child, Gia Virginia, with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen last year. AdvertisementRobert De Niro became emotional while discussing his 10-month-old daughter, Gia Virginia, in an interview with the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Tiffany Chen and Robert De Niro in 2023. Gayle King holding Robert De Niro's baby Gia as the actor's partner, Tiffany Chen, looks on.

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☆ Robert De Niro's Gotham Awards speech went off the rails after he realized his anti-Trump comments were edited out
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Robert De Niro said on stage that part of his Gotham Awards speech was cut without his permission. De Niro read his remarks anyway, which condemned former President Donald Trump. AdvertisementA fuming Robert De Niro went off script during his speech at Monday night's Gotham Awards, claiming that some of his remarks, which condemned former President Donald Trump, were cut out without his permission. Reps for Apple and the Gotham Awards did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday from Business Insider. The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A jury awarded more than $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former personal assistant Thursday, finding one of his companies responsible for subjecting her to a toxic work environment. “We're thrilled with the verdict,” Robinson's attorney, Brent Hannafan, said as he stood with his client outside the courthouse. Robinson testified that she never had romantic interest in De Niro. I lost everything.”De Niro's lawyers sued Robinson for breach of loyalty and fiduciary duty even before her lawsuit was filed against him in 2019. They sought $6 million in damages, including a return of the 5 million airline miles.

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Political Cartoons View All 1237 Images“This trial is the ultimate version of drama and conflict,” he said. Robinson, 41, worked for one of De Niro’s companies, Canal Productions, beginning in 2008 as a personal assistant for less than $100,000 in salary. By 2019, De Niro had agreed to pay her $300,000 annually and elevated her title, making her vice president of production and finance. De Niro sat relaxed in a chair between two of his lawyers during closing arguments. He said 5 million airline miles pocketed by Robinson were worth about $85,000 and that his client just wants “stuff back.”“Use your common sense,” Schoenstein told jurors.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro’s former top executive assistant said she found it “creepy” when the actor insisted she scratch his back, an example of behavior she found controlling and abusive before she quit her job in 2019, she testified Friday at a New York civil trial. I lost my life. De Niro has asked a jury to award him $6 million on breach of loyalty and fiduciary duty grounds. Robinson portrayed De Niro in her testimony as sexist with his language toward female employees and discriminatory in how he paid them. “He was screaming about not being able to find some of the presents,” Robinson said.

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De Niro, referenced mostly as “Bob” in court, has not returned to court since his testimony concluded Tuesday. Asked Thursday by her lawyer how common it was for De Niro to lash out angrily, Robinson remided the jury of that outburst. De Niro testified that he granted the title change at Robinson's request but her job duties didn't change. She said no, and also denied ever wanting to live with, marry or have a child with the actor. Once when she took a friend's daughter out for her 21st birthday, Robinson recalled, De Niro called her later that evening and asked her to bring him a martini from the restaurant.

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Macurdy asked De Niro whether it was true that he sometimes urinated as he spoke with Robinson on the telephone. Sometimes, De Niro sounded like he wanted to leave the witness stand. He rejected Macurdy's suggestion that he sued Robinson before she sued him because he wanted publicity. It's the last thing I wanted to do,” De Niro said. De Niro, 80, has won two Oscars in a six-decade movie career that has featured memorable roles in films including “The Deer Hunter” and “Raging Bull."

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NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro testified Monday in New York City at a trial resulting from a former personal assistant’s lawsuit accusing the actor of being an abusive boss. Robinson, who worked for De Niro between 2008 and 2019, was paid $300,000 annually before she quit as his vice president of production and finance. But when a lawyer for Robinson asked him if he considered her a conscientious employee, he scoffed. Repeatedly, Judge Lewis J. Liman explained the rules of testimony to De Niro and that there were limits to what he could say. “Can I ask a question?” De Niro asked in one exchange with Robinson's lawyer.

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☆ Actor Tom Sizemore, known for tough-guy roles and scandal, dead at 61
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

March 3 (Reuters) - Actor Tom Sizemore, known as much for his struggles with drug addiction and run-ins with the law as for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," died on Friday at age 61, said his manager, Charles Lago. Sizemore's first major leading role came in the 1997 horror thriller "The Relic," again playing a police detective. On television, Sizemore won plaudits for his starring role as a police detective in the short-lived CBS television drama "Robbery Homicide Division." He was arrested again on suspicion of domestic abuse in 2016 and the following year pleaded no contest, the legal equivalent of guilty in California, and was sentenced to three year's probation. Sizemore chronicled his turbulent life in the 2013 memoir, "By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There."

A woman broke into Robert De Niro's New York City townhouse Monday and tried to take all the presents around his Christmas tree while he was home, police said. At around 2:45 a.m., officers saw the woman, who is known to police and has prior arrests, inside the basement of the Oscar-winning actor's East 65th Street residence on the Upper East Side. "I didn't go to Robert De Niro's house," she could be heard saying in the video. Aviles has 26 previous arrests, including 16 this year on burglary and petit larceny charges, NBC New York reported. Seven of the burglaries, all of them on the Upper East Side, occurred within a three-week span that started around Thanksgiving, the senior police officials said.

☆ Woman arrested stealing gifts from under Robert De Niro's Christmas tree
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Jonathan Allen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - New York City police arrested a woman caught stealing presents from beneath Robert De Niro's Christmas tree after breaking into the actor's apartment on the Upper East Side early on Monday morning, according to police and media reports. The 30-year-old woman was known to police for a string of previous burglary arrests and officers caught her inside the apartment stealing items, Tsui said. ABC News reported that she was stuffing presents from beneath a Christmas tree into a bag, and that De Niro, 79, was home at the time and came downstairs at the commotion. The woman was in custody and charges were pending against her, Tsui said. Reporting by Jonathan Allen, editing by Deepa BabingtonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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