Gloria Allred - hero or effin' idiot?

[Rick Lee]

I didn't sit through Tiger's mea culpa press conference, but I did see Gloria Allred representing one of Tiger's bimbos and holding her hand while she (Allred) read a prepared statement. WTF is this world coming to? You need a lawyer to represent you when you're banging a married celebrity now? Why? How was this or any other of Tiger's bimbos wronged and especially wronged enough to need a lawyer? I know Allred sometimes comes to the rescue of some real victims, so she's not all bad. But she's starting to remind me of Al Sharpton coming to Tawana Brawley's side. WTF is she doing?

[URY914]

She smells the money....

[Dueller]

No...but you need a lawyer to negotiate your book deal

[McLovin]

[speeder]

She's a used condom-chasing lawyer.

[BeyGon]

She's pissed cause she wasn't on his list.

[dd74]

You're partially correct: Gloria Allred - hero to effin' idiots...

[aways]

[QUOTE=Rick Lee;5194389..., so she's not all bad. /QUOTE]

Yes, I think she is pretty much "all bad". One of the most angry, nasty, unpleasant byches in modern public life. Whoring for more money by playing the feminist card. She is the feminist equivalent of Sharpton.

[t951]

She's a worthless pile of flesh. Not worth acknowledging in any way.

Man Coulter is another one.

There are more Nancy Grace, and the other two talking windbags that are on CNN at night (Jane Valez or something, and I can't think of the other one.

[Rick Lee]

I have no problem with Ann Coulter or Nancy Grace. They don't charge idiots millions of dollars and then plead BS cases in the court of public opinion. Coulter makes every dime from people who want to pay for her books or speaking fees. Grace has the ratings to justify her paycheck. Allred, of course, is in demand enough to charge what she wants too. But her highest profile cases are for people who really have no reason to hire a lawyer in the first place. She creates a case where there should be none.

[island911]

Originally Posted by speeder

She's a used condom-chasing lawyer.

spot

It's like she went to the Jessie Jackson school of shakedown.

If I were a Lawyer I would be seriously embarrassed to have her representing the profession. She really represents the nasty about it.

How she gets so much air-time is beyond me.

[speeder]

[QUOTE=aways;5194437]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee;5194389..., so she's not all bad. /QUOTE

Yes, I think she is pretty much "all bad". One of the most angry, nasty, unpleasant byches in modern public life. Whoring for more money by playing the feminist card. She is the feminist equivalent of Sharpton.

Agreed, except she's much worse than Sharpton. He can actually be amusing sometimes if you follow the guy. She's completely humorless and vile.

[Neilk]

But if she doesn't represent these poor women, who will? Don't you feel awful at how their names have been smeared by coming out and announcing that they had an affair with Tiger Woods?

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by island911

It's like she went to the Jessie Jackson school of shakedown.

Laugh? I nearly died.

Great line!

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by URY914

She smells the money....

exactly

[sammyg2]

She's definitely no hero, and she's not an idiot either.
I'd describe her as a blood-sucking headline-grabbing parasite leach.
She offers society no positive value at all and the world would be a better place without her.

[Lazarro]

Not much I can add here.

[boba]

Allred was on TV with some female judge and the Judge just b**h slapped her into next week. She as much as called her an extortionist.


Allred looked the fool.

[onewhippedpuppy]

She's an attention whore, nothing more than that. Ignore her, paying her any mind simply reinforces the behavior.

[Gogar]

Here's part of the Gloria Allred Wiki. Ridiculous.


Allred represented Amber Frey when Frey was a witness in the criminal case against Scott Peterson. She has also represented cases against the Boy Scouts of America for excluding an eleven year old girl named Katrina Yeaw, something she referred to as gender apartheid, and a case against the former Sav-On Drugstore chain for having both a boys and a girls toy section, as well as representing actress Hunter Tylo when producer Aaron Spelling fired her because of her pregnancy.

Early in her career in Los Angeles, Allred made a name for herself by successfully suing the then all-male Friars Club in Beverly Hills, an exclusive private club, over its membership discrimination policies.[citation needed] The lawsuit was brought by a professional woman in the late 1970s who was spurned by the club when her application was rejected based solely on her sex, a fact which the club denied but Allred proved in court.

In 1981, she sued California State Senator John G. Schmitz for slander for $10 million for calling her a “slick butch lawyeress,” but settled for $20,000 and an apology.

She formerly co-hosted a radio talkshow with Mark Taylor on KABC in Los Angeles. She also served as a panelist on the 1990 revival of television game show To Tell the Truth.[citation needed]

She filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief on behalf of Paula Jones in the sexual harassment case against former U.S. president Bill Clinton, and represented Nicole Brown Simpson's family during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. She also represented photographer Henry Trappler in a lawsuit against Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. Allred is also known for her criticism of pop singer Michael Jackson. After watching media coverage of the Berlin event with Michael Jackson, she wrote a letter to California's Child Protective Services, asking for an investigation into the safety of Jackson's children. She also spoke on CNN about the subject. Child Protective Services does not make their investigations public, so it is not known whether any action was taken as a result of Allred's letter. When a reporter asked Jackson what he thought of Allred's complaints, he remarked "Ah, tell her to go to hell."

In November 2006, Cindy Streit, etiquette consultant in the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan hired Gloria Allred, who demanded that the California Attorney General investigate fraud allegedly committed by Sacha Baron Cohen and the film's producers.

On July 19, 2007 she filed a lawsuit in Superior Court on behalf of Elizabeth Mazzocchi against actor Esai Morales for "intentional and negligent transmission of a sexually transmitted disease, assault, battery, and breach of contract."

She represented three former Circuit City employees on behalf of a large plaintiff class in an age discrimination lawsuit against that company after it fired 3,400 workers nationwide in April 2007.

In September 2007, she represented Tony Barretto, a former bodyguard of pop singer Britney Spears, in the child custody case between Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline.

She represented Mandi Hamlin in a March 2008 complaint against the TSA.Hamlin was reported to have been humiliated when she was made to take off her nipple rings in a Lubbock, Texas, airport.

In April 2008, it was reported that she had been hired by the family of the teenager who had been beaten and filmed by eight Florida teenagers. She also appeared on Today with Jessica Gibson, who is counter-suing Rob Lowe for sexual harassment.

On February 24, 2004, Gloria Allred and her law firm, Allred, Moroco and Goldberg, filed the first lawsuit in California challenging the denial of marriage licenses as being unconstitutional. She took the case pro bono for Robin Tyler and Diane Olson and Rev. Troy Perry and his husband Phillip Ray De Blieck. On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of equal marriage rights for lesbian and gay couples.

On July 30, 2008, Gloria Allred filed a complaint with federal regulators against Downey Savings and Loan Association regarding check-cashing procedures. Marc Retmier, a 19 year old US Navy Hospitalman, was killed in action in Afghanistan in June 2008. Downey Savings refused to immediately cash his family's military bereavement checks, and Marc Retmier's family were forced to look elsewhere to secure funding necessary to pay for his funeral services.

In December 2009, Allred was retained by Rachel Uchitel after media sources alleged Uchitel had been having an affair with married golfer Tiger Woods.nOn 5 December 2009, a press conference was called off.