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Scandal: New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for allegedly masturbating on Zoom call
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Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker writer and CNN analyst Scandal: New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for allegedly masturbating on Zoom call
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 magazine’s biggest names and has now been suspended from the publication. Magazine says it is investigating matter
The New Yorker magazine has suspended one of its long-time staff writers, legal expert Jeffrey Toobin, while it investigates a report that he was allegedly masturbating during a Zoom work call earlier this month.
“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin said in a statement on Monday about the situation, first reported by Vice.
He added: “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. I thought I had muted the Zoom video, I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. "
He has so far declined to confirm details.
Toobin is one of the most well-known media legal analysts in the US. He has has worked for the New Yorker for more than 25 years, and is also a senior legal analyst at CNN.
