Word: giesler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stones in the Street. Last week, daily papers across the nation front-paged yet another art discovery, in Hollywood. Appropriately supercolossal, the story raised a mushroom cloud of dust and then rapidly evaporated. The announcement was made in the office of Hollywood's wide-screen Lawyer Jerry Giesler. There, Chicago Restorer Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky announced that an Italian-born TV repairman named Alfonso Folio, now of Pasadena, had been living for years with $10 million in pictures under...
...same time warning that another year of neglect would ruin them forever-took them away, and restored them all with "chemical solvents" in three weeks. Since proper restoration of deteriorated paintings can require as much as a year apiece, Zlatoff-Mirsky's speed was astonishing. At Lawyer Giesler's press conference, he refused to show the actual pictures but passed photographs about. There were also pictures of the most happy Folio himself...
Lana Turner called Jerry Giesler, Hollywood's favorite lawyer. Cheryl Crane called Restaurateur Stephen Crane, her father, whom Lana divorced shortly after Cheryl's birth. Then Cheryl went quietly off to the Beverly Hills police station. Lana Turner went with her, later returned alone to the big colonial house with the pink bedroom, where her wild sobs could be heard by people on the lawn out front...
...Negro handyman and chauffeur whom the magazine said she once employed. Confidential's implication of "indecent acts" is "completely and entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said his client was not interested in a monetary settlement, would turn over any court award to charity. Her real purpose, said he, was "to defend her good name against the ugly, unfounded and scurrilous attack, ... to discourage this magazine and others of its ilk from...
...Giesler was encouraged in his suits by what happened last week to another Confidential imitator, Rave. After Humphrey Bogart filed a $1,000,000 suit for accusing him of misbehaving in Paris, Rave agreed to print a complete retraction in the issue coming out in August. Rave also got in trouble with a story about the married life of the Hollywood James Masons. Actor Mason slapped on a $1,199,000 suit, and last week won a retraction and a $1,000 settlement out of court. Rave was too broke* to pay the $1,000 damages in one lump...