Actor Robert De Niro slammed with a $12 million lawsuit from former production company employee for gender discrimination and harassment

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• Graham Chase Robinson filed a lawsuit against actor Robert De Niro and his production company Canal Productions for sexual harassment and gender discrimination. She most recently served as the company's vice president of Production and Finance until April.
• The lawsuit comes two months after De Niro took his former executive assistant to court for $6 million over allegedly embezzling company funds.
• "The allegations made by Graham Chase Robinson against Robert De Niro are beyond absurd," the actor's lawyer Tom Harvey of NYC firm Harvey & Hackett said Thursday of the lawsuit.
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Less than two months after Robert De Niro and his Canal Productions took the Oscar winner's former executive assistant to court for $6 million over allegedly embezzling company funds and doing a whole lot of nothing but Netflix on the job, Graham Chase Robinson has hit back at The Irishman star – hard and with a lot of BTS detail.

"Robert De Niro is someone who has clung to old mores," says a jury-seeking lawsuit filed today in New York federal court in against the actor and his loan-out company.

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