JEFFREY Toobin is a former New Yorker writer who was fired from his job after a Zoom call scandal where he was caught masturbating.
After returning to his position with CNN as a legal analyst following several months of absence, he has now left CNN for good.
Jeffrey Toobin was suspended from the New Yorker magazine after 27 years[/caption]
Who is Jeffrey Toobin?
Jeffrey Toobin was a legal analyst for CNN, and formerly the New Yorker.
He graduated from Harvard Law and once served as the associate counsel in the Department of Justice.
He moved from the government to writing in the 1990s.
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Toobin famously covered the OJ Simpson trial for the New Yorker and was hired as a staff writer.
He turned his coverage of the case into a book that prompted the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016.
Toobin announced his departure from CNN in a tweet posted on August 12, 2022[/caption]
What did Jeffrey Toobin do?
During a Zoom call held on October 15, 2020, Toobin, 62, was caught masturbating.
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The meeting was about a presidential election podcast for WNYC and The New Yorker.
Toobin allegedly angled the computer camera, touched himself, and blew kisses at someone who wasn’t one of his coworkers, his colleagues said.
Shortly after the incident, Toobin apologized in a statement saying, “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.
“I apologize to my wife, family, friends, and co-workers.”
New Yorker editor David Remnick, issued a statement to staff in regards to the incident saying: “As you may have read in various news reports today, one of our writers, Jeff Toobin, was suspended after an incident on a Zoom call last week.
“Please be assured that we take such matters seriously and that we are looking into it. Best, David.”
Shortly afterwards the writer was fired from the New Yorker after 27 years.
Toobin, was not fired from his CNN job as a senior legal analyst but was granted a leave of absence until June 10, 2021- a source had revealed at the time that he was “too good to fire”.
Jeffrey Toobin at the Palm Springs International Film Festival January 7, 2016[/caption]
What has Jeffrey Toobin said since the incident?
Eight months after the scandal Toobin returned to his CNN role as a senior legal analyst.
Speaking with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota he said he apologized to his colleagues and said is working to improve himself and make amends.
“I’m sorry to the people who read my work and who watched me on CNN who thought I was a better person than this.
“And so, you know, I got a lot to rebuild, but I feel very privileged and very lucky that I’m going to be able to try to do that,” he said.
“I am trying to become the kind of person that people can trust again,” he continued.
As part of his rehabilitation of himself, Toobin mentioned therapy and public service like working at a food bank to help better and humble himself.
However, Toobin made an announcement on Twitter on August 12, 2022, that he was permanently leaving CNN.
His tweet stated: “Friends, I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving @cnn after my vacation. Was great to spend my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson, and Don.
“Love all my former colleagues. Watch for my next book, about the Oklahoma City bombing, coming in 2023 from @simonandschuster”
Jeffrey Toobin and wife Amy McIntosh attending the Five Came Back world premiere at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on March 27, 2017[/caption]
Is Jeffrey Toobin married?
Toobin married Amy Bennett McIntosh in 1986 and they celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in May 2021.
McIntosh has a BA in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is also the former Associate Vice Chancellor for the City University of New York, also known as CUNY.
The two share a daughter and a son together and live in New York City.
Daughter Ellen, was welcomed to the world in 1991, one year later, baby Adam was born in 1992.
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After having an affair in 2008, Toobin became the father to his third child, Rory, with Yale graduate Casey Greenfield, back in 2009. She is the daughter of CBS analyst Jeff Greenfield.
Despite the affair Toobin and MacIntosh are still married.
