Roy Black, one of the nation’s premier defense lawyers, dies in Coral Gables at 80
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From ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ to Justin Bieber
Over the years and decades, Black represented an array of notorious clients, from Miami “Cocaine Cowboys” Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta to Miami Beach nursing-home owner Philip Esformes. He also defended a slew of celebrities, such as radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, actor Kelsey Grammer, “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis, artist Peter Max and pop musician Justin Bieber. Black, who was hired to defend clients at trial, not cut plea deals with prosecutors, lived for the courtroom practically to the end of his life. He won the only acquittal at trial in the Varsity Blues scandal that exposed wealthy parents accused of paying bribes to get their children into elite colleges. In the federal investigation’s 57th case, Black’s client, Amin Khoury, was found not guilty in 2022 of paying off a Georgetown University tennis coach to get his daughter into the school. Writer Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, the “Tipping Point Revisited,” spotlighted Black’s Varsity Blues trial and described him as “tall, slender, austere … an apex legal predator completely and utterly intimidating. His nickname is ‘The Professor.’ “
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