Who is Jeffrey Toobin?
JEFFREY Toobin is a former New Yorker writer who was fired from his job after a Zoom call scandal where he was caught masturbating. He has now returned to his position with CNN as a legal analyst, after months of absence. Jeffrey Toobin is a legal analyst for CNN, and formerly the New Yorker. He graduated from Harvard Law and once served on the associate counsel in the Department of Justice. He moved from the government to writing in the 1990s. 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. During a Zoom call held on October 15, 2020, Toobin, 61, was caught masturbating. 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". 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. 4 Jeffrey Toobin and wife Amy McIntosh attending the Five Came Back world premiere at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on March 27, 2017. Credit: Getty  Most read in News GRIM FEAR Maddie 'was killed hours after vanishing & body will be found in Portugal woods' G7 LOVE-IN Biden talks 'a breath of fresh air', Boris says before Pres meets Queen REGULAR JOE Off-duty Biden dresses down in running shoes at G7 bar - but only has a Coke ROLL HORROR Vid shows trooper FLIP pregnant woman's car for going 14mph over the limit MAULED AFTER FALL Boy, 3, plummets out of window and is mauled to death by family's dogs OH SHIP! Toobin married Amy Bennett McIntosh in 1986 and just celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary back 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. 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.