Victims' Rights Lawyer: TV Fixture

Gloria Allred, Attorney For Many Big Names, Gets Much Tube Time

(CBS)  Scott Peterson's one-time lover, Amber Frey, is one of many big names represented by victims' rights attorney Gloria Allred.

Her clients' notoriety has earned Allred a name in her own right, as well as lots of time on the tube, notes The Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman.

Allred has had a role in just about every major celebrity trial of late, Kauffman points out.

Recently, Allred was up at 3 a.m. in Los Angeles to appear live on The Early Show.

"So," co-anchor Hannah Storm asked Allred, "should Jennifer Wilbanks be punished?"

"Do I think she's a danger to the community? That there's going to be an epidemic of runaway brides?" Allred responded.

Then she went directly to CNN's studios to comment on the same story: "Are you gonna prosecute her, and then convict her, and then sentence her to 20 years of married life? I don't think so!"

She also goes from one celebrity case to another, Kauffman observes.

On MSBC, Allred said, "A number of these people may very well have been in the employ of Michael Jackson."

On CNN: "The real issue is, did he molest children?"

Allred told Kauffman, "I love my work. I have a passion for it. I have a passion for justice. …Generally, we don't represent celebrities. We represent typical people who have been hurt by celebrities."

She's represented the family of O.J. Simpson's murdered wife, a former accuser of Michael Jackson, a woman who claimed she was groped by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Frey.

Allred brought Frey to the set of the CBS TV movie, "Witness for the Prosecution," tailored after Frey's book of the same name. In the movie, Allred is played by Nora Dunn of "Saturday Night Live."

What's an attorney doing on a set?

Allred is a co-executive producer.