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Roy Black, Defense Lawyer for William Kennedy Smith and Epstein, Dies at 80

25 juillet 2025 à 00:01
With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.

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Roy Black spoke to the news media outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach in 1991 after his client William Kennedy Smith was acquitted of sexual assault charges.

Jean-Pierre Azéma, 87, Dies; Chronicled French Collaboration With Nazis

20 juillet 2025 à 15:05
He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by Germany in World War II.

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Jean-Pierre Azéma in 2011. A French historian and writer, he helped destroy the postwar myths that the collaborationist wartime Vichy regime had done what it could to resist the occupying Germans.
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