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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/marty-singer-hollywood-lawyer
Hollywood Lawyer Marty Singer Can Make Any Problem Go Away—Except Bill Cosby’s
A ballroom full of household names—John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Charlie Sheen, Jonah Hill, etc.—will swear there’s no one in Hollywood like Marty Singer. David Margolick reports on the mega-lawyer’s mojo, and his involvement in the Bill Cosby case.
BY DAVID MARGOLICK
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The guests who gathered for the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s annual “Entertainment Lawyer of the Year” dinner nearly five years ago may have anticipated another of those dreary evenings—one more oxymoronic “lawyers’ gala,” filled with the customary droning speeches and lame attempts at fun. But the honoree for 2012 was different. It was Marty Singer. Nothing about him is dull—especially the company he keeps.
So, the crowd was bigger than usual, with around 400 people crowded into a ballroom at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The commemorative program was fatter and more star-studded, with ads from, among many others, Steven Seagal, Eddie Murphy, Nicolas Cage (“Thanks for being the best lawyer in the world”), Stevie Wonder, and Mike Myers (“Yea, though I walk through the valley of San Fernando, I fear no man: for my litigator is a mean son of a bi@*#”). And the videotaped tributes were more spectacular, with cameos by James Caan, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Magic Johnson, Marie Osmond, Paula Abdul, and Scarlett Johansson. “Marty Singer, Marty Singer . . . you lifesaver, you!” Johansson purred. “You are a real-life superhero.”
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Joining Singer at the head table was one of his most stalwart clients, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and perhaps his most remunerative one, John Travolta. (Fending off—or burying—all those allegations of gay assignations can be extremely lucrative.) But what really made the evening memorable were the speakers—stars who appeared in ascending orders of magnitude. The M.C. was Tom Arnold, whom Singer has seen through four weddings and more than 20 years’ worth of legal problems. He praised Singer for that rarest of elements on Hollywood’s periodic table: loyalty. When he and Roseanne Barr split, he recalled, Singer, unlike just about everyone else in town, stuck with him, even though Barr (“a fucking walking lawsuit”) generated vastly more billable hours. He told of asking Singer to enforce the confidentiality agreement he and Barr had made during their divorce, one he’d believed she’d breached by going on Saturday Night Live and proclaiming to all the world that his penis is only three inches long. “Marty is passionate, but he’s also very honest,” Arnold explained, “and he’s like, ‘Well, do you have a three-inch penis?’ ”
“I don’t like Marty Singer, because I want to be Marty Singer,” one of Singer’s competitors confesses.
The director William Friedkin then declared that “there are two words that strike fear in the hearts of every network head or studio chief,” and paused pregnantly. “Marty Singer!” the crowd dutifully chanted back. Then Sharon Stone slunk to the microphone. “You call Marty because Keyser Söze is a fictional character,” she said. “You call Marty because you need someone like Mike Tyson in the Holyfield fight.” And with that she made the sound of chomping into something, like an ear, then spitting it out. “Marty is such a badass motherfucker,” she went on. “When people give me a hard time, I just c.c. Marty,” she said, snapping her fingers. “And very rarely do they consider continuing with their harassment of Sharon Stone.” She, too, extolled Singer’s loyalty, nearly choking up as she did: whenever she had stumbled or been pushed, she said, it was Singer who’d reached out and pulled her back up.