Bert Fields Cause of Death

Bert Fields, the powerful entertainment litigator whose clients included top notch celebrities such as Edward G. Robinson, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tom Cruise, Warren Beatty, The Beatles and a host of other luminaries, studios and talent agencies, has died. He was 93.

Though a cause of death was not given, a spokesperson for his law firm, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger Llp., announced that Fields died peacefully late Sunday night [August 7, 2022].

Fields received his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1949 and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude) in 1952.

Fields was a member of the California and New York Bars and his notable clients included Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Warren Beatty, James Cameron, Mike Nichols, Joel Silver, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Mario Puzo, and John Travolta.

Fields was married thrice (Amy Markson, Lydia Minevitch and finally to Barbara Guggenheim) and at the time of death, he was married to his third wife, art expert Barbara Guggenheim.

Fields is survived by his son James Elder Fields (born 1955), whom he had with his first wife Amy Markson, a grandson, Michael Lane Fields, born in 1984, and a granddaughter, Annabelle Fields, born in 2005.