Variety’s Power of Law Honoree Clifford Gilbert-Lurie Cuts Deals for Hollywood’s Biggest Names
17.04.2024 - 16:49
/ variety.com
Todd Longwell By all measures, Ziffren Brittenham senior partner Clifford Gilbert-Lurie has had a storied run as an entertainment attorney. Over the course of his four-decade-plus career, he has made big deals for a long list of loyal clients that have generated pages upon pages of headlines in the show business trades.
For those professional accomplishments, along with his philanthropic efforts, he’s being honored with Variety’s Power of Law Award at a breakfast April 18 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
But if one had to point to a single metric that sums up how much he is valued, it would be a British luxury car topped by a large red bow.
More specifically, a Bentley, gifted to him by producer Dick Wolf.
Sandra Bullock vividly remembers the night. The year was 2004.
She had come to Gilbert-Lurie’s 50th birthday party armed with what she thought was the perfect gift, an 18th century silver wine sediment sifter.
“They’re hard to find intact,” explains Bullock, a Gilbert-Lurie client since 1996. “I was walking up to his house, so excited, holding it like it was the holy grail, and there was that gorgeous black Bentley with the big-ass bow.
I was just… the rage.”
Wolf insists the Bentley was not a mere birthday gift for Gilbert-Lurie, but a thanks for closing the latest in an ongoing string of big overall deals. He says that over the last three and a half decades they have had the most successful lawyer-client relationship in the history of the television business, which is no idle boast coming from a man with nine network shows currently airing on broadcast TV, including the top two longest-running, live-action, scripted, U.S.
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