Gloria Allred Net Worth

How much is Gloria Allred worth?

About Gloria Allred

Allred’s four-decade long legal career has seen her represent clients in civil rights cases involving sexual harassment, women’s rights, wrongful termination, and discrimination in the workplace. She frequently takes high-profile cases, which she promotes through press conferences and TV appearances. Tommy Lee (drummer for Mötley Crüe), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Herman Cain, David Boreanaz, Scott Lee Cohen, Anthony Weiner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Esai Morales, and R. Kelly are just a few of the celebrities that have been sued by Allred’s clients.

She was born Gloria Rachel Bloom on July 3, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family of modest means. Morris, her father, was a salesperson, and Stella, her mother, was a housewife in Britain. She attended the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from Philadelphia High School for Girls, where she met her future husband, Peyton Huddleston Bray Jr. Allred married Peyton Huddleston Bray, Jr. in 1960, and the couple later divorced the following year.

In 1968, she wed William Allred, her second husband. In January 1976, Allred and two other recent Loyola grads, Michael Maroko and Nathan Goldberg, established the law practice of Allred, Maroko & Goldberg. In 1979, Allred filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven children and their parents against the Sav-On Drugstore chain for establishing gender-specific toy aisles. Allred organized a Chippendales-based charity event for WERLDEF in 1980.

Allred’s Total Net Worth

Gloria Allred has earned estimated total career income of $24 million dollars. Of that amount, $1 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $23 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 47% as Allred has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $12.19 million dollars, having paid around $10.81 million dollars in taxes.

In her personal life, Gloria is estimated to have spent $1-3 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $800,000, not including investment assets. Some of her career income will have been converted into investment assets, her returns from which are being estimated at $4 million dollars in value. Therefore, it is estimated that Gloria Allred has a net worth of around $15 million dollars. She has also been married and divorced twice however it is likely the settlements reached, if any, are negligible to this net worth calculation.

A chastity belt was given to California State Senator John G. Schmitz in 1981 by Allred while he was serving as the presiding officer at a hearing on legislation to criminalize abortion. She was referred to as a “slick butch lawyeress” by Schmitz in a press statement he issued in response. By filing a libel suit against him, she was able to obtain a $20,000 payment and an apology from him.

After lesbian activists Deborah Johnson and Zandra Rolón were denied service in a booth designated for “romantic couples” at a Los Angeles restaurant called Papa Choux in 1983, Allred defended them in a lawsuit against the business.

Although a lower court had ruled against the couple, Rolon v. Kulwitzky (1984) affirmed that the restaurant’s actions constituted unlawful discrimination in violation of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. The restaurant got rid of its booths so it wouldn’t have to serve gay and lesbian patrons, and advertised a “Wake for Romance” event in the local paper.

Allred and Catharine MacKinnon drafted the original version of the Los Angeles County Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance in 1985. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors did not approve the bill. In 1987, Allred challenged the exclusive private club, the Friars Club of Beverly Hills, over its discriminatory membership policies. After seeing Allred use the media effectively from an early age, the Friars Club eventually authorized her and five other women to use the club’s health facilities.

Her marriage to William Allred ended in divorce in 1987. On the 1990s rerun of “To Tell the Truth,” she was a panelist. In 1992, Allred filed a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee demanding an investigation into the behavior of Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, whose history of sexual harassment had been exposed in a newspaper article.

She persisted in pressuring the Committee, and she pushed for Packwood to publish his journal entries. In the end, the Committee voted to have him expelled, and he complied by resigning. In 1993, she temporarily represented Jordan Chandler, whose father had accused Michael Jackson of sexual molestation. Allred also defended Daniel Kapon, now 18, who alleged that Michael Jackson abused him when he was a child.

In 1995, Allred defended Katrina Yeaw, then 11 years old, in the case Yeaw v. Boy Scouts of America, which challenged the BSA’s policy of excluding girls from membership. During O. J. Simpson’s murder trial that same year, she represented Nicole Brown Simpson’s family. In 1997, Allred defended Hunter Tylo, the star of Melrose Place, after producer Aaron Spelling sacked her due to her pregnancy.

Tylo was granted $4.8m by the jury. As such, it was a landmark case that paved the way for pregnant actors to keep their jobs. When model Kelly Fisher filed a lawsuit against Dodi Fayed in August 1997, claiming that he had broken off their engagement so that he could start his public romance with Diana, Princess of Wales, she represented him. After Diana and Dodi Fayed’s tragic deaths in Paris that August, the lawsuit was thrown out.

Family Guy’s March 28, 2000 episode “I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar” featured a parody of Allred in the form of a character dubbed Gloria Ironbox, portrayed by Candice Bergen. While Lisa Simpson was playing a lawyer at the dinner table in the May 21, 2001 episode “Behind the Laughter” of The Simpsons, she was parodied. She was lampooned in the South Park episode Cripple Fight, which aired on June 27, 2001.

When initially seen in the 2001 film Rat Race, she emerged just as the main character, Blaine Cody (Vince Vieluf), was going to stomp on a shot glass as part of a fake insurance scam. Instead, Gloria Allred claims, “I saw the whole thing.” after a hotel visitor falls on the glass.

Allred submitted a letter to California’s Child Protective Services and talked on CNN regarding pop superstar Michael Jackson’s 2002 incident in which he held his son over a hotel balcony in Berlin.

Later the same year (2002), Allred defended the family of Gwen Araujo, a transgender youngster whose life was brutally cut short after it was discovered that she was born a boy. In 2004, when Amber Frey was a witness in the prosecution against Scott Peterson, Allred represented her. The first lawsuit contesting the refusal of marriage licenses for same-sex couples in California was filed by Allred and her company, Allred, Maroko, and Goldberg, on February 24, 2004.

In 2006, Gloria released Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice and How You Can Win Your Own Battles. After Circuit City laid off 3,400 workers across the country in April 2007, she represented three of them in a class action complaint alleging age discrimination.

The lawsuit went all the way to the California Supreme Court, where she ultimately prevailed on May 15, 2008, in a ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the state. Allred’s client at the Lubbock, Texas, airport in March 2008 had her nipple rings removed by TSA agents who handed her pliers. Her hiring by the family of the Florida adolescent attacked on camera by eight of her peers made headlines in April of 2008.

In a complaint submitted to federal regulators on July 30, 2008, Allred said that Downey Savings and Loan Association had engaged in illegal check-cashing practices. US Navy Hospitalman Marc Retmier, age 19, was killed in Afghanistan in June of that year. Military bereavement checks were delayed in being cashed by Downey Savings, so his family had to look elsewhere for the money to pay for his funeral.

Rachel Uchitel hired Allred in December 2009 after media reports stated that Uchitel had an affair with married golfer Tiger Woods. Allred also defended pornographic actress and purported Woods mistress Joslyn James. Allred sued Nadya Suleman in May 2009, claiming that she was financially benefiting from her octuplets’ celebrity status. Allred petitioned the court to appoint a guardian, saying that Suleman was not looking out for their best interests.

For the 2010 California governor race, Allred made headlines as the attorney for Nicky Diaz, a former housekeeper for Republican challenger Meg Whitman. Allred said that Whitman knowingly hired Diaz, an unauthorized worker, for many years.

Charlotte Lewis, an English actress, said at a press conference held at attorney Gloria Allred’s office on May 14, 2010, that filmmaker Roman Polanski had sexually molested her when she was 16 years old in his Paris residence. When Debrahlee Lorenzana, a former bank employee who claimed she was fired because she was too pretty, gained widespread media exposure in June 2010, she hired her.

Jodie Fisher, whom Allred represented in her sexual harassment claim that uncovered expense-account problems and ultimately led to the resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd in August of 2010, was represented by Allred.

On April 27, 2011, Allred and Justin Quinn’s family held a press conference after Quinn claimed he was threatened by Braves coach Roger McDowell at a game between the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves. Before his daughters, Quinn had objected to McDowell’s use of homophobic slurs and a baseball bat to perform a sex performance. We the People with Gloria Allred, a show in which improv players rehearse fake case scenarios, premiered on the Discovery Channel on September 12, 2011.

The court granted Allred permission to represent nine former cocktail waitresses at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 18, 2011 because they “did not look good enough” in new uniforms inspired by the fashion of the 1920s. Resorts argued in court papers that her “flamboyant and headline-grabbing antics” would not help the discrimination case, therefore they wanted Allred excluded from it.

Jenna Talackova, a Canadian transgender woman, was disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada pageant in 2012 for not being a “naturally born” and Allred took up her cause. Before taking the matter to court, the Miss Universe organization subsequently reversed its original judgment. Allred announced in June 2012 that she was representing a former girlfriend of Rudy Eugene, the deceased cannibal involved in the 2012 incident in Miami.

Earlier that same year (2012), Allred demanded an inquiry into whether or not radio host Rush Limbaugh should be prosecuted in Florida under a law that dates back to the 19th century for his comments about Sandra Fluke, who testified before House Democrats to advocate for free birth control.

Her defense of two men in a sexual battery lawsuit against actor John Travolta in 2012 earned her the nickname “the ambulance chaser of feminism” from The Atlantic. Edwin Mieses, a biker, was ran over by Alexian Lien as part of the Hollywood Stuntz gang attack on October 4, 2013. His widow engaged attorney Gloria Allred to represent her.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, She represents three women who accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, allegations which Trump has rejected. By the end of that year, Allred had represented at least 28 women who had accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other forms of sexual misconduct.

Former client Kyle Hunter complained to the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar about Allred in 2017, claiming that her discussions with CBS during the time that she was representing him in a lawsuit for job discrimination constituted a conflict of interest.

Attorney Gloria Allred held a press conference on behalf of her client Beverly Young Nelson on November 11, 2017, during which Nelson issued a statement accusing Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16 years old. Allred has been outspoken in her opposition to a bill that would prohibit non-disclosure terms in agreements that silence victims of sexual harassment or assault, which was introduced in California in 2017.

Seeing Allred, directed by Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain, is a documentary on Allred’s life and work that premiered on Netflix in early 2018. In 2019, Archuleta said that Dr. Phil pushed her father to send her to the Turn-About Ranch in Utah, where a male employee repeatedly touched and sexually harassed her.

Non-disclosure agreements, which Allred and her company negotiated, hushed victims of sexual misbehavior through “secret settlements” and “bur[ied] allegations of sexual harassment and assault” as reported by New York Times writers Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey the same year.

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s 2019 book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement details the allegations against Allred and her daughter, attorney Lisa Bloom, for their roles in silencing alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein.

To get Prince Andrew to talk to the FBI about the sexual misconduct claims against him, Allred rented an American-style school bus in February 2020. School bus wrapped in ads was parked in front of Buckingham Palace with pictures of the Duke of York and a message demanding answers to questions about the scandal.

She is now a member of that hallowed company of women.