

The incident was “traumatic” at the time, Gessen said - and led to Toobin getting ripped on social media, “The Tonight Show” and even spawned the hashtag #MeToobin after Vice broke the story. “I was really, truly shocked.”ĭuring the virtual gathering - attended by other New Yorker notables and WNYC public radio staffers - Toobin, 60, “was seen lowering and raising his computer camera, exposing and touching his penis, and motioning an air kiss to someone other than his colleagues,” the Times reported.
“It wasn’t a full-out sexual act, but it was much more than a second,” Gessen said.

15 video call that led to Toobin’s fall from grace. New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen described in a New York Times article the now-infamous Oct. More details emerged Tuesday in Jeffrey Toobin’s caught-on-Zoom masturbation saga - as Malcolm Gladwell and others rushed to the disgraced journalist’s defense. Toobin and groovin’: Disgraced analyst partied with CNN anchors, execs Scandal-scarred Jeffrey Toobin leaving CNN after two decadesĬhris Cuomo could be back on CNN ‘in January’: Brian StelterĬNN’s Jeffrey Toobin ripped over column arguing against prosecuting Trump
