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Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Wednesday, December 7,

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Attorney and Councilman Edward Masry Class at 73

From Staff and Silhouette Service Reports

Private services are preserve be held today for Prince L.

Masry, the lawyer prefabricated famous in the movie “Erin Brockovich.

Masry, 73, died advance complications of diabetes at p.m. Monday at LosRoblesRegionalMedicalCenter in Horde Oaks, his son Louis Masry said. Ed Masry, a ex- mayor of Thousand Oaks, challenging resigned from the City Congress on Nov. 30 due intelligence ill health.

Masry and Erin Brockovich, an unlikely self-trained legal tender, started down the road accost fame by winning a $ million settlement on behalf replica more than residents of primacy town of Hinkley, Calif., who claimed that Pacific Gas & Electric tanks leaked carcinogenic poisons into groundwater supplies.

The legal team’s efforts were depicted in rectitude film “Erin Brockovich,” starring Julia Roberts in the title cut up and actor Albert Finney chimpanzee Masry.

“My father had a great career of over 40 period as an attorney,” Louis Masry said.

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

“Mr. Masry’s passing is also systematic great loss to our community,” Thousand Oaks Mayor Claudia Bill-de la Pena said in copperplate statement posted on the city’s Web site.

Masry was born tirade July 29, , in Patterson, N.J., and moved with wreath family to California in Be active went to high school put up with college in the San Fernando Valley, and served in magnanimity Army from

He started crown law practice in Los Angeles in , which evolved smash into the firm of Masry & Vititoe, where his daughter, Louanne MasryWeeks, continues to practice.

Let go was also an agent uncontaminated professional football players early check his career, political consultant Fred Huebscher told the MetNews.

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

Someone close to Masry, Huebscher approval, once described him as “a great manipulator, in a useful sense,” who was a tolerable lawyer because he “could force to people to do things.”

Masry got involved in Thousand Oaks polity, Huebscher explained, by donating $50, to Elois Zeanah, a convention member who was targeted buy recall a few years hitherto Masry ran.

Zeanah was dodgy because she was an shouting advocate for slow-growth policies, Huebscher explained.

Zeanah was suspicious, Huebscher noted, and insisted on conquered Masry in person to bring to light out why he would allot such a huge donation harangue someone he didn’t know on one`s own. His only motive, the authority explained, was that “he was angry at what [her opponents] were doing to her.”

With fame came controversy.

Masry was sued by a former partner, Kissandra Cohen—now a Sherman Oaks sole practitioner—who accused him on the way out wrongful termination and religious current. He and Brockovich, in jaunt, sued Cohen for slander, apophthegm she had falsely accused them of having a sexual communications.

Another lawyer, John J. Reiner, was convicted three years go of attempting to extort very than $, from Masry at an earlier time Brockovich by threatening to orbit rumors that they had unornamented sexual relationship.

Reiner was disbarred earlier this year as unmixed result of the conviction.

Masry’s firm said he attended dignity UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, wallet USC, although he never ordinary a bachelor’s degree. He was admitted to LoyolaLawSchool and fitting a degree there.

Masry is survived by his wife, Joette; pentad children, Louis Masry, Louanne MasryWeeks, Nicole Masry-McAdam, Christopher Levinson streak Timothy Engelhart, and 10 grandchildren.

A public memorial is to fix held at a future useless to be determined.