Roy Black Biography
Roy Black is a civil and criminal defense trial attorney from the United States. He is best known for acquitting William Kennedy Smith of rape charges in 1991 and for representing conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh.
How old is Roy Black? – Age
He is 77 years old as of 17 February 2022. He was born in 1945 in New York, New York, United States.
Roy Black Family – Education
His mother remarried in 1951 to a British automotive executive, moving the family first to Connecticut and then to Jamaica. His parents divorced shortly after his birth. Black studied at Jamaica College before graduating from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in 1967 and a Juris doctor from the University of Miami School of Law. Black belonged to the Zeta Epsilon chapter of Alpha Tau Omega while he was a student at UM. He passed the Florida Bar Exam with the highest possible score after graduating in 1970.
Roy Black Wife
Black has had three marriages. He wed Naomi Morris Black, his second wife, in 1984. The couple share a daughter named Nora Black. Roy Black wed Lea Black, a cast member of The Real Housewives of Miami and a juror in the William Kennedy Smith case, in 1994. A few months after the trial, they started dating. Their son RJ, like his father, occasionally makes an appearance on the program.
Roy Blak Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $85 Million.
Roy Blak Career
Black is currently a partner at Black Srebnick, a Miami-based trial firm specializing in civil litigation and criminal defense. He also teaches criminal evidence at the University of Miami School of Law. In 2022, Black obtained an acquittal for a client accused of bribing a Georgetown University tennis coach to admit his daughter to the university, putting an end to the US government’s unbroken streak of convictions in the “Varsity Blues” prosecutions. In addition to his legal work, Black provides legal commentary for various NBC news shows and acted as the “managing partner” of The Law Firm, a reality-based TV show that pitted lawyers against each other on a weekly basis in a legal version of The Apprentice.