Bert Fields Net Worth

Bert Fields, the entertainment litigator of global acclaim whose clients included Edward G. Robinson, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tom Cruise, Warren Beatty, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Steve Harvey, Bob Weinstein and a host of other luminaries, studios and talent agencies, has died. He was 93.

With decades under his belt as a lawyer for a lot of the globally acclaimed stars, Fields amassed considerable wealth prior to his demise.

At the time of death, Fields had an estimated net worth of $10 million.

Fields died peacefully late Sunday night, August 7, 2022 at his Malibu home, a spokesperson for his law firm, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger Llp., announced.

Fields’ many high-profile cases included;

• Representing Katzenberg in his messy divorce from Disney and Lucas deal with Disney’s theme parks,
• Jackson’s landmark contract with Sony Music,
• Winning a huge award for the Beatles and Apple Corps over the Beatlemania musical,
• Paramount’s appeal of the Buchwald v. Paramount case over Coming to America and Beatty’s fight to keep Paramount from cutting a few minutes from his film Reds.

He also represented DreamWorks SKG and Steven Spielberg in defeating an application for an injunction against exhibition of the Oscar winner’s 1997 film Amistad.

Fields also authored books including two novels, biographies on Richard III and Elizabeth I and an analysis of the Shakespeare authorship question.