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Ed Masry, 73; Attorney Won Major Settlement From PG&E;, Sat ......
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
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Attorney and Councilman Edward Masry Dead at 73
From Staff and Wire Service Reports
Private services are to be held today for Edward L.
Masry, the lawyer made famous in the movie “Erin Brockovich.
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Masry, 73, died of complications of diabetes at 11:30 p.m. Monday at LosRoblesRegionalMedicalCenter in Thousand Oaks, his son Louis Masry said. Ed Masry, a former mayor of Thousand Oaks, had resigned from the City Council on Nov.
30 due to ill health.
Masry and Erin Brockovich, an unlikely self-trained legal assistant, started down the road to fame by winning a $333 million settlement on behalf of more than 600 residents of the town of Hinkley, Calif., who claimed that Pacific Gas & Electric tanks leaked carcinogenic poisons into groundwater supplies.
The legal team’s efforts were depicted in the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich,” starring Julia Roberts in the title role and a