Net Worth: | $20 Million |
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Gender: | Female |
Profession: | Lawyer, Actor, Attorney at law |
Nationality: | United States of America |
Gloria Allred | |
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Children | Lisa Bloom |
Website | gloriaallred.com |
Gloria Allred has always been at the forefront of women’s rights discourses, and she has made use of her authority as a successful attorney to ensure that no injustice pertaining to women are overseen. She has, over the years, taken various cases that have been intricately linked with women’s rights, often controversial and high profile ones, ...
She completed her Masters in 1966 and moved to LA, California where she lived in Watts. She was actively engaged with the LA Teachers Association and took up teaching jobs at Fremont High School and Jordan High School. Gloria Allred was raped at gunpoint while she was on vacation in 1966 to Acapulco.
She was born to a salesman father, Morris and a housewife mother, Stella in Philadelphia. She completed her schooling from Philadelphia High School for Girls. After that, she joined the University of Pennsylvania for her graduation and met her first husband there.
She spent almost four decades in a legal career and represented a variety of clients in civil rights and get evolved by the cases which were mainly into sexual harassment, women’s rights, employment discrimination, and wrongful termination. Gloria was being called as a longtime master of the press conference by “The New Republic. She became famous for taking high-profile cases including press conferences and appearances on television. Apart from being an attorney, Gloria Allred holds California life credentials in secondary school education and supervision. She was an educator in public school for almost six and a half years and was also a university lecturer in southern California for several years.
Going through various phases of her life today she is being named among top-ranked attorneys and human rights activists. She was selected for inclusion in 2011-2018 editions of “best lawyers in America”. Gloria received a lot of awards and to name a few she was awarded the Victoria Woodhull award from veteran feminists of America for her struggling efforts towards gaining women’s civil rights. She is the founding partner of the law firm Allred, Maroko & Goldberg (AM&G) where she handles more than hundreds of million cases against women’s rights. She is currently the president of “Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund”.
Gloria Allred was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia on July 3, 1941. She was born to a small and middle-class family where her father, Morris was a salesman and her mother Stella was a homemaker. Gloria Allred graduated from Philadelphia high school for girls. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and then moved back to her parents to continue with her education. She received a bachelor’s degree in English with honors in 1963. And getting strongly objected by her professor she wrote her honors thesis on black writers.
Gloria Allred met her first husband while pursuing her education at the University of Pennsylvania. It was Peyton Huddleston Bray Jr. with who she married and had their only child. Their child Lisa Bloom was born on 20th September 1961. After her birth, the couple divorced shortly.
Gloria Allred is also a three-time Emmy nominee for her commentaries on KABC television in Los Angeles. Her nationally syndicated television show "We the People, with Gloria Allred" was also nominated in 2012 for a Daytime Emmy Award.
Gloria Allred was born on July 3, 1941 - an only child in a working-class home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. with honors in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her M.A. from New York University and her J.D. cum laude from Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles.
Gloria Allred is the most famous woman attorney practicing law in the nation today. She is a tireless and successful advocate for victims whose rights have been violated. Her high-profile legal battles have led to many landmark precedent-setting court decisions and hundreds of millions of dollars for her clients.
In Gloria Allred’s 2006 book about her 30-year fight against injustice — and how you can win your own battles — she shares empowering life lessons learned during her career fighting on the front lines for victims’ rights.
In 2017 an unnamed woman named Brown in a lawsuit after she was allegedly raped during a party at his home, which her attorney Gloria Allred described as "one of the most horrific sexual assault cases" she's seen in her career.
One of Governor Cuomo's accusers, Sherry Vill, is represented by Attorney Gloria Allred. 04.27.21 CBS San Francisco - If convicted killer Scott Peterson is awarded a new trial, the star witness in the case nearly 20 years ago, Amber Frey, is again ready to take the stand, according to her attorney, Gloria Allred.
04.27.21 CBS San Francisco - If convicted killer Scott Peterson is awarded a new trial, the star witness in the case nearly 20 years ago, Amber Frey, is again ready to take the stand, according to her attorney, Gloria Allred.
07.02.21 The Atlanta Journal Constitution - "Bill Cosby planning his post-prison comeback" "Mr. Cosby is not home free," said celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who is pursuing a civil case against the entertainer on behalf of a Los Angeles accuser.
Gloria Allred [Gloria Rachel Allred] is an American women right’s attorney who often takes controversial cases and high-profile cases, particularly those involving the protection of women’s rights. Allred is best known as a former Court TV anchor. She is also known for We the People With Gloria Allred (2011) and Rat Race (2001). She was previously married to William Allred and Peyton Huddleston Bray, Jr.
Gloria Allred Children. The attorney is a mother of one: a daughter by the name Lisa Bloom who is an attorney in California. She is also the daughter of Gloria’s first husband, Peyton Bray. Her grand-daughter Sarah is an attorney in New York while her grandson Sam is a paralegal.
Gloria Allred. She took a job at Benjamin Franklin High School as a teacher after a variety of job trials. On a graduate degree, Gloria began work at New York University, where she became interested in the civil rights movement. After she earned a master’s degree, she became a teacher and, in 1966, moved to Los Angeles, California, ...
She has handled quite many cases over the years with the latest being representing at least 28 women who accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and/or other sexual misconduct.
The news that celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is now representing Yovanka Bryant, the former girlfriend of accused Miami face-eating cannibal Rudy Eugene is perhaps the least strange event in that shocking story.
13. 13. The news that celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is now representing Yovanka Bryant, the former girlfriend of accused Miami face-eating cannibal Rudy Eugene is perhaps the least strange event in that shocking story. Wherever and whenever something bizarre or perverse or just plain gossipy hits America's front pages, Allred is never far behind, ...
The Tiger Woods scandal. Of course, there was no way that Allred would not have been involved in the Tiger Woods scandal of 2010. Rachel Uchitel – by far the best known of Woods' mistresses – hired Allred to represent her.
In 1997 when pictures of Princess Diana and wealthy Egyptian Dodi Fayed became a global sensation, Allred held a press conference with model Kelly Fisher. Fisher, who claimed to be engaged to Fayed, promptly sued him for "breach of contract". Allred told the assembled media Fayed was "a frog in prince's clothing".
The Scott Peterson trial. Amber Frey was the ex-girlfriend of Scott Peterson, a California man who was convicted of murdering his wife and whose trial became a national sensation in 2004. Naturally Frey hired Allred to guide her through a wave of media attention. Amber Frey leaves with her attorney Gloria Allred after she testified during ...
Amber Frey leaves with her attorney Gloria Allred after she testified during the Scott Peterson trial. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/Pool/ Paul Sakuma/Pool/Reuters/Corbi.
As former pop princess Britney Spears's career and mental state went into a well-publicised meltdown in 2007, she probably did not need Allred jumping into the mix too. But Allred took the case of her former bodyguard Tony Barretto who made lurid allegations about the one-time Disney favourite's partying lifestyle.
She works there Saturdays and Sundays, and during the week lives in a Pacific Palisades condo she’s had since the 1980s. Allred doesn’t exercise beyond walks on the beach and doesn’t cook.
Despite clashing with Allred when he was Scott Peterson’s defense counsel and she was representing Amber Frey, Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos admires her and her partners for their lawyering as well as their entrepreneurship. “They gin up positive publicity for causes, and that generates referrals,” he says.
Ed Leibowitz is a writer-at-large for Los Angeles. His last feature for the magazine, on teen chefs, appeared in the June 2011 issue. ALSO: Read the Web extra Interviewing Attorney Gloria Allred by Ed Leibowitz. This feature was originally published in the January 2012 issue of Los Angeles magazine.