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Toobin, a New Yorker staff writer, famously covered the OJ Simpson trial for the mag in the 1990s.
“Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” a network rep said. Best, David,’’ Remnick said.ĬNN added that Toobin would be taking time off from the cable network, where he is a senior legal analyst. “Please be assured that we take such matters seriously and that we are looking into it. The magazine’s editor, David Remnick, added in an email to staffers, “Dear All, 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,’’ according to Vice. He then left the Zoom chat for a few moments and called back in - apparently unaware that his camera had been kept on for at least part of his sex act, the sources said.Ī spokeswoman for the New Yorker said, “Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter.” Talk of the town: New Yorker probing Jeffrey Toobin for bizarre penis incident on Zoom callĪt one point, there was a break for those playing Democrats and Republicans to strategize together, and that’s when sources told Vice they saw Toobin pleasuring himself. Toobin was supposed to be playing the part of the courts, while Andrew Marantz represented the far right, Sue Halpern was the left and Dexter Filkins stood in for the military. It was unclear what, if anything, others on the virtual call saw.ĭuring the simulation, Osnos had been playing the role of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Gessen was President Trump, Mayer represented establishment Republicans, and Cobb stood in for the Democrats, the sources told Vice. The two sources said that at one point, it looked as if Toobin was taking another call and lowered his camera, and that’s when they saw him getting to work - on himself. Two people on the video call told Vice the virtual gathering was part of an election simulation last week that included New Yorker notables such as Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, Masha Gessen and Jelani Cobb, as well as producers from the magazine and WNYC public radio. “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.’’ Jeffrey Toobin Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File I thought I had muted the Zoom video,’’ he said. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,’’ the 60-year-old married Harvard Law School grad said in a stunning admission to Vice, which broke news of the cringeworthy incident Monday. The New Yorker writer and CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin didn’t just expose himself during a Zoom work meeting - he was allegedly caught masturbating in the call with some of the magazine’s biggest names, and has been suspended from the publication.