Four years after colleagues caught him masturbating during a video call, disgraced former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has landed a top gig.
Puck News reported Wednesday that Toobin will join The New York Times as a contributing opinion writer.
If you recall, The New Yorker, who Toobin previously worked for as a staff writer, fired him in 2020 after his co-workers caught him masturbating on a joint video conference between The New Yorker and WNYC staffers.
CNN granted Toobin time off, which he requested in the wake of the incident, but ultimately allowed him to return to his positiHe apologized after the initial October 2020 incident and again upon his return to CNN’s airwaves in June 2021.
“I thought that I had turned off the Zoom call. Now, that’s not a defense. This was deeply moronic and indefensible. But I mean, that — that is part of — that is part of the story. And you know, I have spent the seven subsequent months, miserable months in my life, I can certainly confess, trying to be a better person,” he told CNN colleague Alisyn Camerota when he returned.
He departed the network in 2022, capping off a 20-year career there.
Toobin was also deep in another scandal involving sexual impropriety in 2008 when he impregnated co-worker Jeff Greenfield’s daughter Casey Greenfield and tried to convince her to abort the child, sources told to In Touch Weekly.
Greenfield ultimately had the child, though she said Toobin initially refused to acknowledge paternity, according to The New York Times (now his next employer).
Greenfield sued Toobin for child support and custody, and the latter was heard in Manhattan Family Court, the Times reported. He eventually agreed to take a paternity test, which found that the child was his. Greenfield ultimately received full custody of the baby.