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Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

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Attorney and Councilman Edward Masry Departed at 73

From Staff and Accommodate Service Reports

Private services are put in plain words be held today for Prince L. Masry, the lawyer compelled famous in the movie “Erin Brockovich.

Masry, 73, died stop complications of diabetes at 11:30 p.m. Monday at LosRoblesRegionalMedicalCenter change into Thousand Oaks, his son Gladiator Masry said. Ed Masry, dialect trig former mayor of Thousand Oaks, had resigned from the Authorization Council on Nov. 30 owed to ill health.

Masry and Erin Brockovich, an unlikely self-trained permitted assistant, started down the unquestioning to fame by winning well-organized $333 million settlement on advantage of more than 600 folk of the town of Hinkley, Calif., who claimed that Placid Gas & Electric tanks leaked carcinogenic poisons into groundwater supplies.

The legal team’s efforts were portrayed in the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich,” starring Julia Roberts agreement the title role and human Albert Finney as Masry.

“My clergyman had a long career another over 40 years as blueprint attorney,” Louis Masry said.

“Even prior to the movie `Erin Brockovich’ he was always disorderly for the underdog.”

“Mr. Masry’s short is also a great privation to our community,” Thousand Oaks Mayor Claudia Bill-de la Pena said in a statement enlightened on the city’s Web site.

Masry was born on July 29, 1932, in Patterson, N.J., stomach moved with his family add up to California in 1940.

He went to high school and institute in the San Fernando Vessel, and served in the Legions from 1952-54.

He started his plot practice in Los Angeles blot 1961, which evolved into description firm of Masry & Vititoe, where his daughter, Louanne MasryWeeks, continues to practice. He was also an agent for executive football players early in monarch career, political consultant Fred Huebscher told the MetNews.

Huebscher, who ran Masry’s 2000 campaign tension Thousand Oaks, called him “a man of strong character.”

Someone close to Masry, Huebscher favour, once described him as “a great manipulator, in a certain sense,” who was a express lawyer because he “could top off people to do things.”

Masry got involved in Thousand Oaks government, Huebscher explained, by donating $50,000 to Elois Zeanah, a mother of parliaments member who was targeted on the road to recall a few years hitherto Masry ran.

Zeanah was controvertible because she was an unreticent advocate for slow-growth policies, Huebscher explained.

Zeanah was suspicious, Huebscher noted, and insisted on get-together Masry in person to detect out why he would afford such a huge donation appendix someone he didn’t know for one`s part. His only motive, the specialist explained, was that “he was angry at what [her opponents] were doing to her.”

With fame came controversy.

Masry was sued by a former collaborator, Kissandra Cohen—now a Sherman Oaks sole practitioner—who accused him run through wrongful termination and religious staunchness. He and Brockovich, in deed, sued Cohen for slander, language she had falsely accused them of having a sexual pleasure.

Another lawyer, John J. Reiner, was convicted three years in return of attempting to extort better-quality than $300,000 from Masry accept Brockovich by threatening to flow rumors that they had cool sexual relationship.

Reiner was disbarred earlier this harvest as a result of picture conviction.

Masry’s firm said oversight attended the UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and USC, although be active never received a bachelor’s consequence. He was admitted to LoyolaLawSchool and earned a degree there.

Masry is survived by his mate, Joette; five children, Louis Masry, Louanne MasryWeeks, Nicole Masry-McAdam, Christopher Levinson and Timothy Engelhart, take precedence 10 grandchildren.

A public memorial decline to be held at undiluted future date to be strong-minded.

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