14 Facts About James Toback

James Lee Toback is an American screenwriter and film director.

James Toback was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1991 for Bugsy.

James Toback has directed films including The Pick-up Artist, Two Girls and a Guy and Black and White.

The suit eventually involved 40 accusers and, on April 9,2025, resulted in a verdict and order against James Toback requiring him to pay $1.68 billion to the women.

James Toback was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, the only child of Jewish parents Irwin Lionel James Toback and Selma Judith.

James Toback's mother was a president of the League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC.

James Toback grew up in The Majestic with his parents, who lived four floors below his grandfather.

James Toback befriended future film producer, Ed Pressman, who lived in the same building and later produced Toback's film, Harvard Man.

James Toback spent three years teaching English at City College of New York and developed a gambling addiction.

James Toback can't write fiction; he can only write diaries and dramatize them.

James Toback denied these allegations, saying he had not met the women, or that if he had, it "was for five minutes" about which he had "no recollection".

James Toback claimed he was taking medication at the time of the alleged assaults that made it "biologically impossible" for the alleged actions to occur.

James Toback is married to Stephanie Kempf, who had edited James Toback's first documentary The Big Bang in 1989.

James Toback married Consuelo Sarah Churchill Vanderbilt Russell in April 1968, a relationship which quickly ended in divorce.