On June 10, 2021, Toobin made his first CNN appearance since the scandal and admitted he wasn't thinking, however, he has now left CNN for good in 2022. In August, his eighth book, True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The. 15, his quarantine was going better than most people’s. "I didn't think other people could see ," he explained.Īpart from the outrageous episode of indecent exposure, Toobin is best known for attempting to bribe his much younger mistress-who was also his co-worker's daughter-to get an abortion in 2008. FORMER CNN anchor Jeffrey Toobin hit the headlines in 2020 after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call about a presidential election podcast for WNYC and The New Yorker. Until Jeffrey Toobin’s fateful appointment with Zoom on Oct. The publication said its decision was based on a desire to foster "an environment where everyone feels respected and upholds our standards of conduct." CNN felt otherwise, allowing the legal analyst to take "time off while he deals with a personal issue." The network welcomed him back on the air in June 2021. The 60-year-old staff writer was fired following a three-week. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says hes leaving the network, nearly two years after the Zoom incident that derailed his career. Watch for my next book, about the Oklahoma City bombing, coming in 2023 from New Yorker gave Toobin the pink slip in November 2020 following the masturbation incident. Jeffrey Toobin Getty Images Jeffrey Toobin was canned from the New Yorker on Wednesday over his caught-on-Zoom masturbation ordeal. "Was great to spend my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson and Don ," Toobin wrote.
Toobin announced his departure on Twitter, noting that he would not return to CNN following his "vacation" and implying the decision was his alone.
Jeffrey Toobin, the disgraced legal analyst who lost his job at the New Yorker (but kept his post at CNN) for masturbating in front of colleagues during a Zoom call, is leaving the network after 20 years.