Robert De Niro’s personal trainer testified about the actor’s exercise routine during the gender discrimination trial involving a former assistant.
De Niro, 80, would work out for anywhere between two and seven hours a day, Daniel Harvey said on the stand Thursday, according to a court transcript obtained by Fox News Digital.
Harvey, who has been working for De Niro for nearly 40 years, would travel with the actor while he was filming.
“When it started in 1984, I was single and just started training with him. I would say without exaggerating, I was with him – and I was living in New York City at the time – 330 days a year,” Harvey explained.
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Robert De Niro’s personal trainer, who has worked for the actor for nearly 40 years, testified that the actor has sometimes worked out for seven hours at a time. (Getty Images)
“For the past 365, closer to 310 days,” he later added.
At one point, while the two were working together, the workout sessions varied “anywhere from two hours to almost seven hours.”
“We would be working on dialogue, and he would work with me two hours training and then maybe just walk the treadmill slow and do another three, four hours just working on his dialogue, rehearsing his dialogue with me, running his lines.”
The training would usually take place at De Niro’s residence, according to Harvey.
The type of workout session would also depend on which character he was filming at the time. De Niro might “want to have a look of being very gaunt or thin, sometimes overweight, sometimes muscular.”
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Robert De Niro sued Graham Chase Robinson, accusing her of charging personal expenses to his company. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Harvey testified that when he began working for De Niro, he was being paid hourly and eventually was given a salary of $55,000. By 2009, Harvey was being paid a salary of $250,000 a year, according to testimony.
“There might have been a time I thought I got to $290,000. But I’m not sure exactly when that happened,” Harvey said. By 2018, Harvey’s salary was $375,000 a year.
Harvey’s testimony was used to contradict claims made by De Niro’s former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson. The ex-employee sued the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star in 2019, alleging gender discrimination and harassment.
However, Harvey testified that he had not been yelled at by De Niro in years.
“When I was younger it happened a lot, but not so much anymore,” he said. “I pretty much know the ropes now, so to speak.”
Robert De Niro testified in the lawsuit brought by his former assistant. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
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Robinson alleged De Niro repeatedly used “vulgar, inappropriate, and gendered comments” in addition to overworking and underpaying her in her $12 million lawsuit.
Before she filed the lawsuit, De Niro filed his own. The $6 million suit accused Robinson of improper use of the company credit card, watching TV on company time and stealing frequent-flier miles for personal trips.
Graham Chase Robinson sued Robert De Niro for gender discrimination and harassment in a $12 million lawsuit. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
In 2022, Robinson accused De Niro of only filing his lawsuit after he found out that the former assistant intended to bring her own claims.
Throughout the nearly two-week-long trial, the jury heard from De Niro, Robinson, the actor’s lawyer and his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen. The jury will began deliberations Thursday after hearing closing arguments from both sides Wednesday.
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