When Graham Chase Robinson’s lawyer Andrew Macurdy delivered his opening statements for the court case on October 30, he presented correspondence between Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen that apparently illustrated that the actor’s girlfriend was suspicious of the relationship with his assistant. Chen was worried that Robinson had “imaginary intimacy” with the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star. De Niro was questioned about this perceived relationship. “She felt there was something there and she may have been right,” he said about Chen’s suspicions, per the Associated Press.
The following day in court, Robinson’s team presented text messages between De Niro and Chen that showed how displeased Chen was with her boyfriend’s assistant. “If you keep her, you and I will have problems,” one text from 2019 read, per The Independent. “I’m not going to be happy until you tell me she’s looking for a replacement. Keeping her around is just a slap in my face,” another text read. De Niro was then asked if these texts could be considered an “ultimatum” from his girlfriend. “You call it an ultimatum, I don’t,” he responded.
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Earlier in the case, a picture of the fractured relationship between Chen and Robinson was painted. Chen believed De Niro’s assistant was deliberately sabotaging her and had tried to wedge herself between the couple, and become “very ‘Single White Female,” per court documents obtained by Puck in June. Once De Niro terminated Robinson, he and Chen exchanged heated texts about the former assistant.
