Lizzo hired Marty Singer, Hollywood's favorite attack dog. Here's a ... - Los Angeles Times
As Lizzo gears up to fight a hostile-workplace lawsuit filed by three former dancers who say they were subjected to sexual harassment and discrimination, she’s hired notorious Hollywood attorney Martin D. Singer, a.k.a. Marty Singer. His work with his A-list client roster earned him Entertainment Lawyer of the Year from the Beverly Hills Bar Assn. and a reputation as “Hollywood’s favorite legal hit man.”
Singer told The Times this month that he is confident Lizzo “will be completely vindicated in this matter.”
If you’re unfamiliar with the career-saving celebrity go-to, look to Sharon Stone, who said at a 2012 tribute honoring Singer, “Marty’s like when [Mike] Tyson bit the ear off that guy ... that’s like Marty in law.”
Or Charlie Sheen, who honored the litigator the same night, toasting, “Marty might be the only person who has f— more people than I have. ... A lot has been said about my past, but trust me, I never screwed a hooker as hard as Marty screwed Warner Bros.” Sheen added: “I’ve got 100 million reasons to say thank you.”
In a 2017 profile, Vanity Fair wrote of the attorney: “For every story Singer kills or gets taken down, there’s another he’s delayed, or defanged, or pushed off the front page, or had corrected or retracted. Singer is a kind of legal termite, eating away at foundations: one errant detail, he tells editors, makes a story, or a source, or a reporter, wholly unreliable.”
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