Robert De Niro's New York City rental home burglarized

Robert De Niro was the target of a robbery that occurred at his rented apartment in New York City this week, the actor's publicist has acknowledged. 

Following reports of the movie star's encounter with an intruder who allegedly broke into his townhome on Manhattan's Upper East Side early on Monday morning, Stan Rosenfield, a public relations representative for De Niro, issued a brief response noting that the Oscar winner would not be commenting further on the incident.

"We are not making any statement at this time about the robbery at the temporary rental home of Robert De Niro," Rosenfield said in the written response to Monday's break-in reports obtained by CBS News.