Bertram Fields

Bertram Fields is a Harvard-trained lawyer famous for his work in the field of entertainment law; he has represented many of the leading studios, as well as individual celebrities including The Beatles, Warren Beatty, James Cameron, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, and John Travolta. He met his wife when she hired him to defend her when she was sued by Sylvester Stallone. Fields has also written two novels, published under the penname "D. Kincaid": The Sunset Bomber (1986) and The Lawyer's Tale (1993). bertram fields photographed by mark robert halper, dust jacket of book royal blood ISBN 0-06-039269-X I cropped this image (and retouched the background) from the dust jacket photo copyrighted by the photographer; the dust jacket design that incorporates the photo is copyrighted by honi werner -- isis This... bertram fields photographed by mark robert halper, dust jacket of book royal blood ISBN 0-06-039269-X I cropped this image (and retouched the background) from the dust jacket photo copyrighted by the photographer; the dust jacket design that incorporates the photo is copyrighted by honi werner -- isis This... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Beatles were a British rock music group from Liverpool, England held in very high regard for both their artistic achievements and their considerable commercial success, and have amassed an enormous worldwide fanbase that continues to exist to this day. ... Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia), now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... James Cameron from Ghosts of the Abyss James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian-born American film director noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often extremely successful financially. ... Tom Cruise as seen on a poster for the 2001 film Vanilla Sky Tom Cruise is the stage name of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born 3 July 1962), an American actor and film producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the biggest... Dustin Hoffman Hoffman with Ben Stiller in 2004s Meet the Fockers. ... John Travolta (left) and Samuel L. Jackson (right) in Pulp Fiction. ... Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City) is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ...

Having read English history for years as a hobby, and not satisfied with the books written about King Richard III, Fields spent four years researching and two years writing the non-fiction book Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes (ISBN 0-06-039269-X), which was published in 1998. Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was the King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York. ...

Although he started with a "gut feeling" that Richard was innocent of murdering his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, Fields investigated the facts as he would for a client he was representing, and he structured the book like a lawyer's brief, identifying the evidence and then drawing the logical implications from the facts. Also like a brief, he discussed the weaknesses in earlier authors' treatments of the same subject, being particularly critical of Alison Weir and her book The Princes in the Tower: The Princes in the Tower Edward V of England (1470–1483?) and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, (1473–1483?) were the two young princes, sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, who were declared illegitimate by the Act of Parliament known as Titulus Regius. ... Alison Weir (born 1951) is a popular British writer of history books for the general public, mostly in the form of biographies about British kings and queens. ...

"Alison Weir . . . tells her readers that she, at last, has solved the mystery: Richard was guilty. What's more, he was a greedy, ruthless tyrant.

"However, if Richard was guilty, nothing in Weir's book demonstrates it. Essentially, her 'proof' that he murdered his nephews consists of two skeletons discovered in the Tower of London in 1674, some inferences wholly unsupported by the 'evidence' she offers and the opinions and assertions of 'contemporary' sources such as [John] Rous and [Thomas] More, which Weir is inclined to treat as proven fact."

The conclusion Fields reached is that the probability that the princes were, in fact, murdered is about 50% to 70%, and if they were, the probability that Richard did it is in the same range, so the logical probability that Richard is guilty is 25% to 49%, which is less than 50-50. Fields says DNA analyses of the bones dug up in the Tower of London in 1674 would change the odds on whether the princes were murdered but might not affect the odds on who did it, if anyone did, so this mystery may never be solved. For the film with this title, see Tower of London (1939 film) The Tower of London, seen from the river, with a view of the water gate called Traitors Gate. ...

In 2005 Fields published the non-fiction book Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare, which deals with the authorship of the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Bertram Fields, a long-time client of private investigator Anthony Pellicano, has repeatedly been connected to the ongoing federal wiretapping investigation of Pellicano in the press because of allegations that his celebrity clients have benefited from the former PI's alleged illegal wiretaps directed against members of the media and prominent critics. Anthony Pellicano (born 1946) is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator who recently served a sentence in federal prison for illegal possession of explosives and who was arrested on February 4, 2006, on unlawful wiretapping and racketeering charges. ... Telephone tapping or Wire tapping/ Wiretapping (in US) describes the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party, often by covert means. ...

External links

• LA Times artice "The names cited in an indictment of private eye Anthony Pellicano read like a road map leading to Bertram Fields and his famous clients"
• New York Times article about Bert Fields and Anothony Pellicano "Detective's Employer Knew About His Sleuthing Device"