What is Gloria Allred’s Net Worth?

Gloria Allred, an American attorney, has a net worth of $20 million dollars. She has gained attention for taking frequently controversial cases over her four-decade legal career. Allred has represented numerous clients in suits against celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Tommy Lee.

Beyond her work as a lawyer, Allred co-hosted a radio talk show with Mark Taylor on Los Angeles’ KABC.

Gloria Allred’s Background

Gloria Allred, born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was raised in a Jewish working-class family. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a salesman. Allred attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls and later graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English. She then pursued a graduate degree at New York University, where she became interested in the civil rights movement. After obtaining her master’s, Allred worked as a teacher in Los Angeles while also working for the Los Angeles Teachers Association. In 1968, she began attending Southwestern University School of Law and later transferred to Loyola Marymount University’s School of Law. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975.

Gloria Allred’s Legal Career

In 1976, Gloria Allred co-founded the law firm Allred, Maroko & Goldberg. Her early cases included representing children and parents in a lawsuit against Sav-On Drugstore, trying to stop the gender-segregation of toys. In 1981, she famously presented a chastity belt to California State Senator John G. Schmitz during a hearing on outlawing abortions. After Schmitz insulted her, Allred successfully sued him for libel. In 1987, Allred challenged the Friars Club of Beverly Hills’ membership discrimination policies, leading to her and five other women being permitted to use the Club’s health facilities.

Major Legal Triumphs for Gloria Allred

In 1992, Gloria Allred wrote a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee urging them to investigate the actions of Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, who had come under fire for sexual misconduct. Due to the pressure she kept on both parties, the Committee eventually voted for Packwood’s expulsion, leading to his choice to resign.

In 1995, Allred represented 11-year-old Katrina Yeaw in Yeaw v. Boy Scouts of America, which was launched in order to determine whether the organization had the right to exclude girls. Also in 1995, Allred represented Nicole Brown Simpson’s family in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. Two years later, she represented model Kelly Fisher, who was suing Dodi Fayed for breaking their engagement to date Princess Diana. The suit was dropped shortly after Fayed and Diana were killed in a car crash in Paris.

In 1997, Allred had one of her most historically significant successes representing “Melrose Place” actress Hunter Tylo, who sued producer Aaron Spelling for firing her on account of her pregnancy. Allred successfully argued against Spelling, leading the jury to award Tylo $4.8 million. This pivotal case helped establish the rights of actors to continue to work when they become pregnant.

Gloria Allred’s High-Profile Cases

Gloria Allred is a well-known lawyer who has handled numerous high-profile cases throughout the 2000s and 2010s. She represented the family of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was beaten to death, and later Amber Frey, a witness in the criminal case against murderer Scott Peterson. Allred also filed a lawsuit in California alleging that it was unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples and won a decision affirming the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state.

Allred has fought against corporate age discrimination, sexual harassment, exploitation, unlawful termination, and the rights of women and LGTBQ individuals in many of her other cases. She represented at least 28 women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault and represented three women who came out with sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump. Allred has also represented clients in suits against such celebrities as David Boreanaz, Scott Lee Cohen, R Kelly, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Anthony Weiner.

Media Appearances

Gloria Allred has had a diverse media career beyond the legal realm. She co-hosted a radio talk show with Mark Taylor on Los Angeles’ KABC for 14 years and was a panelist on a revival of the television game show “To Tell the Truth” in 1990. In the early 2000s, she played herself in the comedy film “Rat Race.” Allred began presenting the television court program “We the People with Gloria Allred” in 2011, which used improv actors to reenact fictitious cases. She has also appeared on the reality competition show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” as an interviewer and advisor to the contestants and as herself on the comedy series “Graves.”

Marriages of Gloria Allred

Gloria Allred met and married her first husband, Peyton Huddleston Bray Jr., while studying at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. They had a daughter named Lisa, who is also a famous lawyer known as Lisa Bloom. The couple divorced in 1962.

In 1968, Allred married William Allred. They were together until their divorce in 1987.

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