Former Brooklyn boxer and celebrity defense attorney Jay Goldberg passed away on December 5 at his home in Bridgehampton, New York. His client roster included Donald J. Trump, Sean Combs, Willie Nelson, the Rolling Stones, and a number of mobsters. He was 89.
He attended Brooklyn College for his undergraduate degree in political science after finishing at James Madison High School, and then went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1957. As a result of his time in ROTC, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant, later became a captain, and finally retired as a lieutenant colonel.
He tied the knot with jury consultant Regina Hochberg, better known as Rema, in 1959. Beyond her, he leaves behind a son, Justin, a daughter, Julie Maniha, and five grandchildren. Mr. Goldberg was employed by Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan to work as an assistant. Mr. On Hogan recommended that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy appoint him as a special prosecutor to clean up northwest Indiana, and Kennedy did just that.
Mr. Goldberg’s client list as a private defense attorney reads like a who’s who of famous people: Miles Davis, Bono, Johnny Cash, Armand Hammer, the Hells Angels, Carl Icahn, former Representative Charles B. Rangel, the Manhattan Democrat, and Meyer Lansky, the head of a criminal organization and a banker.
In addition to his memoir, “The Courtroom Is My Theater: My Lifelong Representation of Famous Politicians, Industrialists, Entertainers, ‘Men of Honor,’ and More,” he authored four other works (2018, with Alex S. Huot).
He has authored a number of books on trial preparation, but in 1990 he told The New York Times that his personal method was simple: “I say to myself at the start of a case: ‘What do I want the jurors to be saying to each other during deliberations? I want them to be able to grasp onto a reed. If I give them nothing to grasp, the case will sink. You have to have a principle: the simpler, the better.’”
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He said it even more bluntly in an interview with the Times in 1997: “It’s theater in the courtroom. It’s the only place were you get to emote and try to convince juries that black is white.”
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Jay Goldberg, a former Brooklyn boxer and celebrity defense attorney died on December 5 at his home in Bridgehampton, New York. Donald J. Trump, Sean Combs, Willie Nelson, the Rolling Stones, and a slew of mobsters were among his many high-profile clients. He was 89.
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