Gloria Allred Bio Wiki Age Law Firm Baseball Bat and Net Worth
Gloria Allred is an American attorney. She is known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving the protection of women’s rights. Allred has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
She has devoted her legal career to fighting for women’s equality, handling high-profile cases of sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, and hate crimes. Allred 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.
Gloria was born on July 3, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States. She is81 years old.
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of5 ft 5 in(Approx. 1.65 m).
She was born and raised in Philadelphia by her parents Morris and Stella. Allred grew up in a Jewish working-class family. Her father worked as a salesman and her British-born mother was a householder. She holds an American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Allred met her first husbandPeyton Huddleston Bray Jr. at the University of Pennsylvania. The two had their only child,Lisa Bloom, on September 20, 1961, and divorced shortly after. In 1968, she marriedWilliam Allred. Allred divorced her husband in 1987, retaining her married name.
Allred’s only child and daughterLisa Bloomwas born n September 20, 1961. Lisa is also an attorney and is best known as a former Court TV anchor. She is also known for advising Harvey Weinstein amid various sexual abuse allegations, and for representing women whose sexual harassment claims precipitated the firing of Bill O’Reilly from Fox News.
She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls. Later, Allred attended the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963, she received a bachelor’s degree in English, graduating with honors. Subsequently, she earned a Master’s degree, became a teacher, and, in 1966, moved to Los Angeles, where she resided in Watts.
Allred worked for the Los Angeles Teachers Association and taught at Jordan High School and Fremont High School. She enrolled in Southwestern University School of Law and later transferred to Loyola University School of Law at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Allred graduated and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975.
She founded the firm Allred, Maroko, & Goldberg with fellow Loyola graduates Michael Maroko and Nathan Goldberg in January 1976. On February 24, 2004, Allred and her law firm, Allred, Maroko, and Goldberg, filed the first lawsuit in California challenging the denial of marriage licenses for same-sex couples as being unconstitutional.
On April 27, 2011, Allred appeared at a press conference with the family of Justin Quinn, who was allegedly threatened at a San Francisco Giants baseball game by Braves coach Roger McDowell. Quinn had objected to McDowell’s uttering of homophobic slurs and use of a baseball bat to simulate a sex act in the presence of his daughters.
Allred was representing at least 28 women as of 2015 who accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and/or other sexual misconduct. She also represented three women who accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct claims that Trump has denied, and which first arose during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Allred’s practice negotiated non-disclosures for a victim of Harvey Weinstein, victims of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and Olympics gymnastics physician Larry Nassar. She was vocal in her dislike of a proposed 2017 California bill that would ban non-disclosure clauses in agreements that silence victims of sexual harassment or assault.
Allred’s role, along with that of her daughter Lisa in allegedly suppressing the voices of alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein was chronicled in Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s 2019 book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.
In early 2018, Netflix debuted a documentary about the life and work of Allred, Seeing Allred, by directors Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain. In Gilmore Girls, Lorelai Gilmore refers to her when talking to Christopher on the porch. Allred also appeared in a brief fictional cameo as Lisa’s lawyer in The Simpsons season 11 mockumentary episode, “Behind the Laughter”.
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Allred’s estimated net worth is$20 million.
Allred’s only child and daughterLisa Bloomwas born n September 20, 1961. Lisa is also an attorney and is best known as a former Court TV anchor.
No. She is currently single. Allred was previously married to Peyton Huddleston Bray Jr William Allred.
