Boston Globe via Getty Images
F. Lee Bailey, the prominent defense attorney who represented many high-profile clients, including O.J. Simpson, died Thursday at age 87. His death was confirmed to CNN by Jennifer Sisson, a manager at Bailey’s consulting firm.
Sisson described Bailey as “a great man.”
Bailey was part of the so-called “dream team” of famous local and national lawyers, including civil rights attorney Johnnie Cochran, defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, and DNA expert Barry Scheck, defending Simpson at his 1995 murder trial. Simpson was acquitted of killing Nicole Brown Simpson, his former wife, and waiter Ronald Goldman in 1994.
“I lost a great one. F Lee Bailey you will be missed,” Simpson tweeted Thursday, along with a video of himself talking about the lawyer, who he described of “one of the great lawyers of our time.”
(Reuters) -F. Lee Bailey, the flamboyant defense attorney perhaps best known as part of the team of lawyers that defended O.J. Simpson against murder .
F. Lee Bailey, lawyer at O.J. Simpson âtrial of the century,â dies at 87 -Boston Globe By Syndicated Content
Jun 3, 2021 | 4:20 PM
(Reuters) -F. Lee Bailey, the flamboyant defense attorney perhaps best known as part of the team of lawyers that defended O.J. Simpson against murder charges in the âtrial of the century,â has died, the Boston Globe reported on Thursday. He was 87.
Baileyâs courtroom victories also included an acquittal for a figure in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and a successful appeal for Sam Sheppard, a Cleveland doctor convicted of murdering his wife.
F. Lee Bailey died of natural causes in Georgia on June 3 at the age of 87
He is known for representing clients like OJ Simpson, Patty Hearst and the Boston Strangler suspect
Bailey became a celebrity in the 1960s, hosting a television show and appearing in other primetime shows and commercials
Over time, though, he faced his own legal troubles and was disbarred from Florida and Massachusetts in 2001
In 2017, he filed for bankruptcy