Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies

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FILE - Howard Weitzman, attorney for Paris Hilton, leaves the Los Angeles Municipal Court Metropolitan branch on May 4, 2007. Weitzman, an attorney in decades of front-page trials whose clients included Hilton, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber and auto maker John DeLorean, has died. Weitzman's wife says he died Wednesday, April 8, 2021, after a brief illness. He was 81. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)