Allred in the flesh

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Seeing this front page article and picture on our Web site’s homepage just reminded me of my first, real-life encounter with notorious attorney Gloria Allred.

It happened earlier this week. I was serving jury duty at the Los Angeles County civil courthouse in downtown —– sitting down outside the court room waiting for the jurors to be called in when whizzing by went Allred herself, wearing a forest green pant suit, heels and tugging some sort of file holder/briefcase on wheels.

At first, I did a double take and thought to myself — “Was that Gloria Allred?”

Then, one word popped into my mind: “OCTOMOM!”

Then, the juror next to me asked my first question (above) out loud. We realized it was Allred.

She was much shorter in person than I thought she would be — of course that says nothing about her power and scope.

I know, it has nothing to do with local news except her connection to Nadya Suleman and Angels in Waiting …. but I thought I’d share anyway.