New Yorker suspends writer Jeffrey Toobin for exposing penis on Zoom

A prominent writer has been suspended by a prestigious magazine after “an embarrassingly stupid mistake” while he thought he was out of view.

Prominent writer Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by The New Yorker because he exposed himself on a Zoom call between magazine colleagues and WNYC workers, a report said Monday.

Toobin told Vice in a statement: “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.

“I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.

“I apologise to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.”

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Jeffrey Toobin attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Picture: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images

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A spokeswoman for the magazine said Jeffrey Toobin “has been suspended while we investigate the matter”.

Sources told the website that the suspension stemmed from Toobin — a Harvard Law School grad who also serves as CNN’s chief legal analyst — showing his privates during the online meeting.

CNN told Deadline that Toobin would be taking time off from the cable network, as well.

“Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” CNN said in a statement.

Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and famously covered the OJ Simpson trial for the mag in the 1990s.

Mr Toobin thought he was out of view of the webcam. Picture: Olivier Douliery / AFP

He turned his Simpson coverage into a book, which fuelled FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’’ in 2016.

He is a prolific author who has written about everything from the US Supreme Court to presidents to one-time kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.