Mr. Toobin had followed his mother to ABC News, where he served as a legal analyst before moving to CNN in 2002. As his public profile grew, his private life attracted media attention. In 2009 and 2010, Rush Molloy, a gossip column in The New York Daily News, reported on an extramarital affair he’d started with Ms. Greenfield, then a fact checker at Glamour, another Condé Nast publication. She became pregnant in 2008.
After her son, Rory, was born in 2009, Ms. Greenfield, who went on to work in family law, sued Mr. Toobin, 13 years her senior, over child support. She declined to comment for this article.
Mr. Toobin had no contact with the new baby “by his choice,” according to a court document, until he was nine months old. Mr. Toobin now sees Rory, who was an usher at Ellen’s wedding in 2018, a few times a month.
The affair and its resolution did not diminish Mr. Toobin’s professional standing, colleagues say, nor the range of his reporting. He visited sex clubs with the political consultant Roger Stone for a 2008 profile, explored the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and reported on Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media (which had written, with snark and glee, about Mr. Toobin’s entanglement with Ms. Greenfield).
But masturbation at a remotely conducted work meeting was a new order of business.
Besides inviting mockery of a magazine whose dignity and restraint has been part of its brand since the William Shawn years, it presented an urgent, if very 2020 human resources issue. “I want to assure everyone that we take workplace matters seriously,” Stan Duncan, the chief people officer of Condé Nast, wrote in a Nov. 11 email sent to the staff of the magazine, announcing that Mr. Toobin would no longer be associated with it. “We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels respected and upholds our standards of conduct.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/style/jeffrey-toobin-zoom.html
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