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Jeffrey Ross Toobin[1] (/ˈtuːbɪn/; born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, blogger, and a former legal analyst for CNN. He left CNN on September 4, 2022.[2]^{[failed verification]}

Jeffrey Toobin
Toobin at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
Born	Jeffrey Ross Toobin (1960-05-21) May 21, 1960 (age 62) New York City, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA, JD)
Occupation	Legal analyst, commentator
Notable credit(s)	The New Yorker (1993–2020) CNN senior legal analyst (2002–2022)
Spouse	Amy Bennett McIntosh ​ ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	3
Parent(s)	Jerome Toobin Marlene Sanders
Website	jeffreytoobin.com

During the Iran–Contra affair, he served as an associate counsel in the Department of Justice. He moved from government into writing during the 1990s and wrote for The New Yorker from 1993 to 2020 when he was fired for masturbating on-camera during a video conference call with co-workers.[3][4][5][6][7] Toobin has written several books, including accounts of the O. J. Simpson murder case and the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal, both of which have been adapted for television as seasons of FX's American Crime Story.

Early life

Toobin was born to a Jewish-American family[8] in New York City in 1960,[9] a son of Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer.[10] His younger brother, Mark, born in 1967 with Down syndrome, lived apart from the family.[3]

He attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, and then Harvard College for undergraduate studies. He covered sports for The Harvard Crimson,[11] where his column was titled "Inner Toobin". Toobin graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature and was awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was classmates with Elena Kagan and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 1986 with a J.D. magna cum laude.[12]

Career

Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. After passing the bar exam, he worked as a law clerk to U.S. circuit judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then as an associate counsel for Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran–Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. He next served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn.[13]

Toobin wrote a book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. Oliver North,[14] about his work in the Office of Independent Counsel, to which Walsh objected. Toobin went to court to affirm his right to publish. Judge John F. Keenan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote an opinion that Toobin and his publisher had the right to release this book. The book was published before Walsh's appeal could be decided, mooting the case. Accordingly, the Circuit Court vacated the lower court's decision and ordered the dismissal of the case.[15]

After three years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Toobin resigned from the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he had gone to work after working for Walsh and abandoned "the practice of law."^{[citation needed]} He started working in 1993 at The New Yorker and became a television legal analyst for ABC in 1996.

Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high-profile cases. In 1994, Toobin broke the story in The New Yorker that the legal team in O. J. Simpson's criminal trial planned to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence.[16] Toobin provided analysis of Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial,[17] the O. J. Simpson civil case, and prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga.

Toobin joined CNN in 2002,[16] as a legal analyst. In 2003, he secured the first interview with Martha Stewart about the insider trading charges against her.[2]

Toobin is the author of seven books. His book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007) received awards from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.[16]

His next book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, was published in 2012. American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst came out in 2016. All were New York Times Best Sellers. In 2020, he authored True Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Investigation of Donald Trump, which is described as a condensation of evidence against the character and presidency of Donald Trump as if he were on trial.[18]

In 2021, Toobin's book, A Vast Conspiracy, was adapted into the FX true-crime anthology, Impeachment: American Crime Story.[19]

On August 12, 2022, Toobin announced via Twitter that he would leave the network after 20 years. His last day on air was August 4.[20]

Zoom masturbation incident

On October 19, 2020, Toobin was suspended from The New Yorker after he masturbated on camera during a Zoom video call between New Yorker and WNYC radio staffers.[3][4][5][6][7] CNN said Toobin "has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted." Toobin contended the incident was unintentional and said in a statement: "I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers."[21] The next month, he was fired from The New Yorker following an internal investigation by the parent organization, Condé Nast.[22] New York Public Radio, which owns WNYC, indefinitely banned Toobin from its broadcasts and podcasts.[3]

Toobin was widely ridiculed in the wake of the incident by, among others, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Trump Jr., and Saturday Night Live.[23] Defenders included former New Yorker editor Tina Brown, who said that "27 years of superb reporting and commitment to The New Yorker should have been weighed against an incident that horribly embarrassed the magazine but mostly embarrassed himself." Author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell said he "read the Condé Nast news release, and I was puzzled because I couldn't find any intellectual justification for what they were doing."[3]

On June 10, 2021, Toobin returned to CNN as its chief legal analyst. He described his conduct as "deeply moronic and indefensible" and said he "didn't think other people could see [him]", but admitted that this was no defense for his behavior. He said the time he spent off air went toward "trying to be a better person", working on his upcoming book about the Oklahoma City bombing, doing therapy, and working at a food bank.[24]

Personal life

In 1986, Toobin married Amy Bennett McIntosh,[25] whom he met in college while they worked at The Harvard Crimson. She is a 1980 Harvard graduate, holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School,[1][11] and has held executive positions at Verizon Communications and Zagat Survey.[26] They have two adult children, a daughter and son.[26]

Toobin had a longtime off-and-on extramarital affair with attorney Casey Greenfield. Greenfield became pregnant with Toobin's child. Toobin offered her money to have an abortion. When she refused to do so, he threatened that she would regret it if she did not comply.[27] Greenfield is the daughter of American television journalist and author Jeff Greenfield and the ex-wife of screenwriter Matt Manfredi.[28] Their child was born in 2009, whom Toobin initially resisted acknowledging.[26][29] Toobin's paternity was confirmed with a DNA test and a Manhattan family court judge ordered Toobin to pay child support.[27]

In popular culture

In the 2016 television series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Toobin was portrayed by Chris Conner.[30]

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2015)

Books

• Toobin, Jeffrey (1991). Opening arguments: a young lawyer's first case, United States v. Oliver North. New York: Viking.
• — (1992) [1991]. Opening arguments: a young lawyer's first case : United States v. Oliver North. Revised & updated ed. New York: Penguin.
• — (1997). The run of his life: the People v. O. J. Simpson.
• — (1999). A vast conspiracy : the real story of the sex scandal that nearly brought down a president. New York: Random House.
• — (2001). Too close to call : the thirty-six-day battle to decide the 2000 Election. New York: Random House.
• — (2007). The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. New York: Doubleday.[31]
• — (2012). The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. New York: Doubleday.
• — (2016). American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst. New York: Doubleday.
• — (2020). True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-53674-5.

Essays and reporting

• Toobin, Jeffrey (February 1998). "The Trouble With Sex: Why the law of sexual harassment has never worked". The New Yorker. No. February 9, 1998. pp. 48–55.
• — (2009). "Google's gatekeepers". In Lithwick, Dahlia (ed.). The best American legal writing 2009. New York: Kaplan.
• — (January 12, 2009). "Barney's great adventure". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 84, no. 44. pp. 36–47.[32]
• — (May 24, 2010). "Activism v. restraint". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 86, no. 14. pp. 19–20.
• — (March 26, 2012). "Holding court". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 6. pp. 41–42.[33]
• — (May 21, 2012). "Money unlimited". The Talk of the Town. Annals of Law. The New Yorker. Vol. ?, no. ?. pp. ?.[34]
• — (November 19, 2012). "Right to vote". The Talk of the Town. Annals of Law. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 36. pp. 29–30.[35]
• — (January 14, 2013). "Casting votes". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 43. pp. 17–18.
• — (January 14, 2013). "Mystery meal". The Talk of the Town. Ink. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 43. p. 23.
• — (January 28, 2013). "The people's choice". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 45. pp. 19–20.
• — (March 11, 2013). "Heavyweight : how Ruth Bader Ginsburg has moved the Supreme Court". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 4. pp. 38–47.
• — (April 1, 2013). "Wedding bells". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 7. pp. 21–22.
• — (July 8–15, 2013). "Adieu, DOMA!". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 20. pp. 27–28.
• — (August 5, 2013). "Daughters of Texas : the fight for abortion rights". Letter from Austin. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 23. pp. 24–29.
• — (December 23–30, 2013). "Cruel and Unusual". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 42. pp. 37–38. Methods of execution.
• — (April 14, 2014). "This is my jail : where gang members and their female guards set the rules". Letter from Baltimore. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 8. pp. 26–32.[36]
• — (February 16, 2015). "The Albany chronicles : how Andrew Cuomo gets his way". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 1. pp. 48–59.
• — (July 27, 2015). "American limbo : while politicians block reforms, what is happening to immigrant families?". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 21. pp. 30–35.
• — (February 29, 2016). "Looking back". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 3. pp. 17–18. Justice Antonin Scalia.
• — (December 19–26, 2016). "When truth is not enough : sex tapes, the demise of Gawker, and what the Trump era means for the First Amendment". Annals of Law. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 42. pp. 96–105.[37]
• — (February 27, 2017). "Tipped scales". The Talk of the Town. The Bench. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 2. pp. 22–23.[38]
• — (July 3, 2017). "Feeding the beast : David Pecker's reign at the National Enquirer and the rise of Trump". The Publishing World. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 19. pp. 38–47.[39]
• Toobin, Jeffrey (December 11, 2017) "Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea Sends Donald Trump's Lawyers Scrambling" New Yorker.
• — (April 2, 2018). "Russia redux". The Talk of the Town. Time Capsule. The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 7. pp. 28–29.[40]
• — (September 17, 2018). "The week that was". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. pp. 13–14.[41]
• — (March 4, 2019). "May days". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 2. pp. 15–16.[42]
• — (May 27, 2019). "The threat to Roe". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 14. pp. 19–20.[43]

References

External links

• Official website
• CNN staff biography
• October 2007 Author Series: Jeffrey Toobin in Conversation with Lori Lightfoot.
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Good Golly, Mr. Ollie : OPENING ARGUMENTS: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. Oliver North

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