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Salvatore Strazzullo, a New York Metropolis lawyer finest identified for a string of salacious instances that induced native papers to nickname him the “Night time-Life Lawyer,” was discovered lifeless in his automobile early Saturday in Brooklyn, based on police.
The 52-year-old Manhattan resident had extra lately been going through a lot of authorized battles after allegedly bilking his personal shoppers for thousands and thousands, utilizing the cash for his personal money owed and splendid life-style, based on Brooklyn District Lawyer Eric Gonzalez.
Police discovered him unresponsive and unconscious in his automobile round 3:30 a.m. Saturday, parked close to the intersection of sixteenth and Cropsey Avenues, an NYPD spokesperson informed Fox Information Digital.
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Milana Dravnel (L) and her lawyer Salvatore Strazzullo arrive at federal court docket Feb. 15, 2008 in New York Metropolis. Dravnel was suing boxer Oscar De La Hoya for defamation, over alleged pictures of him taken by Dravnel. Hoya claimed the pictures had been manipulated by her. They later reached a settlement within the dispute. (Brad Barket/Getty Photos)
Medics pronounced him lifeless on the scene, however there have been no instant indicators of criminality, police stated. The investigation is ongoing.
The New York Occasions dubbed Strazzullo the Huge Apple’s “Night time-Life Lawyer” in a 2012 profile, outlining a few of his “after-midnight” instances within the Metropolis that By no means Sleeps, reporting that he’d been a nightclub supervisor within the Nineteen Nineties earlier than changing into a lawyer.
Through the years he represented strippers, nightclub employees and celebrities concerned in mischief after darkish, together with a former fling of the boxer Oscar De La Hoya, who claimed she had footage of him carrying ladies’s lingerie.
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Salvatore Strazzullo and Jodie Strazullo attend JOGO by Pooneh Launches within the Hamptons at Day & Night time on June 27, 2009 in Southampton, New York. (REBOH/Patrick McMullan through Getty Photos)
Milana Dravnel, a former unique dancer, sued De La Hoya for $100 million in 2007. Fox Information reported on the time that one of many photos confirmed the boxing legend carrying a black fishnet bodysuit and black heels. In one other, he was stated to be carrying a “white tutu.”
De La Hoya claimed the photographs had been doctored.
Olympic champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya in an image taken in Philadelphia in a Ritz-Carlton resort room, Sept. 19, 2007. (X17)
Based on the New York Submit, the authorized battle between the 2 surfaced allegations that the previous champion often known as boxing’s “Golden Boy” favored to be referred to as “Goldie” whereas dressing in ladies’s undergarments. The events ultimately settled out of court docket, and each mentioned the incident in an HBO documentary, “The Golden Boy,” years later.
Strazzullo’s agency’s web site was down Tuesday. The Brooklyn native had an workplace in Bensonhurst, based on Gonzalez.
A spokesperson for the Brooklyn DA’s workplace declined to touch upon Strazzullo’s demise Tuesday, pointing to previous press releases in regards to the allegations in opposition to him as a substitute.
Oscar De La Hoya and Wilfredo Rivera combat for the WBC and Lineal Welterweight titles on Dec. 6, 1997 on the Boardwalk Corridor in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey. De La Hoya received the combat with a TKO within the eighth spherical. (Give attention to Sport/Getty Photos)
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The late lawyer was due again in a Brooklyn prison court docket later this month on two separate instances involving felony costs of grand larceny and fraud in an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme that funded fancy automobiles, a luxe condominium in Battery Park Metropolis, fancy meals and customized fits, based on prosecutors.
He had pleaded not responsible.
