Jeffrey Epstein's Former Attorney Who Secured Plea Deal Dead at 80
Source: Newsweek
Published Jul 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM EDT | Updated Jul 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM EDT
Roy Black, the prominent defense attorney who helped secure Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal, has died, according to his law partner. Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables at the age of 80 after an illness, his law partner Howard Srebnick said.
"For more than 30 years, Roy was my teacher, mentor and friend," Srebnick told The Associated Press. "The loss(es) I feel personally and professionally are immeasurable." Black's death marks the end of a career in defense law spanning over five decades.
Why It Matters
Black rose to national prominence after working on major legal cases, including winning acquittal in the 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of the late president, John F. Kennedy. The trial was a watershed moment in criminal defense as most of it was broadcast live on national television, with a blue dot obscuring the identity of the accuser.
What To Know
Black also played a role in Epstein's legal defense during his 2006 Florida criminal case, involving charges of soliciting prostitution from underage girls. In 2008, Epstein avoided more severe federal charges by pleading guilty to state charges of procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He served 13 months.
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This lawyer was famous but was also 80 years old. However this could potentially send QAnon into a frenzy due to the timing! Will have to see.
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not recently (Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the current one).
But I am waiting to see what QAnon does since 45 is trying to throw around anything he can to distract. 
But I do know that the Epstein thing had come to a head during that time in 2019. Of course, 6 months later, the pandemic hit and knocked all of that out of the news cycle! It's good that it is being brought up again because it continues to throw them back on their heels!
July 12, 2019 9:50 AM ET
Updated at 5:05 p.m. ET
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is stepping down after criticism over his role in a nonprosecution deal reached years ago with the well-connected businessman accused of sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta appeared on Friday at the White House with President Trump and announced his resignation. "I do not think it is fair for this administration's Labor Department to have Epstein as its focus rather than the incredible economy we have today," Acosta said. "The right thing was to step aside."
Acosta said his departure would be effective in one week, when Deputy Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella is expected to take over as acting head of the department. Trump said Acosta had called him early Friday to convey his decision and the choice to step down had been Acosta's. The president praised Acosta as a "fantastic secretary of Labor" and "a tremendous talent. He's a Hispanic man; he went to Harvard."
Top Democrats in Congress had called for Acosta's removal in the wake of new charges against multimillionaire Epstein by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. Epstein is accused of sexually abusing underage girls as young as 14, some of whom he allegedly recruited in what prosecutors called a sex trafficking network.
In 2008, then-U.S. Attorney Acosta oversaw an agreement that permitted Epstein to plead guilty to some related charges but which critics have since called far too lenient.
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This part from the above - a quote from 45 -
And that "2008" plea deal was done under SHRUB (who had appointed Acosta U.S. Attorney for SDNY), which was BEFORE Obama was elected (despite the RW noise machine trying to tie it to Obama)!
it was the Clinton's. 
I propose Gabbard directed the CIA to use intercepted Russian directed-energy weapon against Roy Black to make sure he could never talk about Epstein ever again.
