This should be good.

The death of this permanent A+ list entertainment lawyer is going to set the former private investigator free to say what he wants.

This should be good.

Bert Fields

Anthony Pellicano

Bert Fields Dies: Powerhouse Showbiz Lawyer For Tom Cruise, Weinsteins, George Lucas, Michael Jackson, Beatles & Many Others Was 93

Bert Fields, the relentlessly loyal powerhouse entertainment lawyer who repped clients including Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Tom Cruise, George Lucas, the Beatles, Michael Jackson and many others in myriad headline-making cases in Hollywood, has died. He was 93.

His rep told Deadline that Fields died Sunday at his home in Malibu with his longtime wife Barbara Guggenheim by his side.

A partner at Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, Fields tried many of the landmark cases in the entertainment and communications industries during the past several decades. He represented most major Hollywood studios and talent agencies during his singular career and such other bold-faced names as Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, James Cameron, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Mike Nichols, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joel Silver, Madonna and writers Mario Puzo, James Clavell, Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.

Harvey Weinstein, told The New York Times in 2005, ”In the entertainment business, walking into litigation without Bert Fields is like walking into the Arctic without a jacket.”

A consummate dealmaker and circumspect raconteur, the suave Fields was as much a lover of history as he was the inside moves of Hollywood. Having put out a memoir in 2020, Fields was deeply proud of his literary output with works on the Shakespeare authorship debate, Richard III and Elizabeth I and a novel on Napoleon & Josephine, among others over the years.

Fields was a prolific writer. When The Godfather author and client Puzo died he was working on The Family, Fields finished it. Puzo, who admired Fields’ writing style in his legal briefs, left notes for Fields on the The Borgias so that Fields could complete the historical novel.

Though Fields continued to work until quite recently, the attorney had been in declining health since contracting Covid in 2020. – Source