Actually, in Taxi Driver, it was Harvey Keitel who was pimping out Jody's character. DeNiro, the Taxi Driver character, in his psycho way, was chastely trying to save her.
But he's still a politically daft scumbag!
It seems that the price paid to get into movies is to be open to relationships with important people of bad character, and to be a virulent leftie. Since both actions mean the ability to separate one’s conscience from one’s behavior, they are able to succeed winning fame and fortune.
The right is having some success in getting conservative movies made. Now all they need to do is force through a means of communicating that information to the masses, as the left systematically blocks the right’s message.
My preference is for regulation of social media and the creation of a new TV network backed by big, right money. Oh, and an official government fund to take in a You Fund Me for the wall.
In the movie that is...off screen he spent a lot of time with her, taking her around NYC and having lunch, etc.
From an interview with her:
"Scorcese would say something like unzip his fly and just start laughing and not know what to do so he would hand it over to Robert de Niro and then Robert would tell me what to do."
12 years old and already a veteran of Hollywood pedoland.