The producer of the “reversal of fortune” and “Fallen” was 64 years

Elon Dershowitz, producer on films such as Inversion of fortune, fallen And The whole truth And the son of the eminent lawyer Alan Dershowitz, died on August 17 from a stroke, said his family. He was 64 years old.

The youngest Dershowitz was co -producer on Inversion of fortune, The 1990 film based on his father’s non-fiction book and scripted by Nicholas Kazan. Jeremy Irons won his only Oscar for playing the main role of Claus Von Bülow, the real British lawyer who was condemned in 1982 for trying to kill his wife Sunny and left him in a permanent vegetative state. Von Bülow hired Alan Dershowitz to work on a call and his convictions were canceled. He was found not guilty in a second trial.

Ron Silver played Alan Dershowitz in the film, which also earned the Oscar Names for Kazan and the director Barbet Schroeder.

“He brought her to Hollywood,” Alan Dershowitz told News, News Union JNS, saying that of his son was. “He went around the shopping. He convinced the business to do so. He helped choose the stars. It was a very important part of this film. ”

Elon Dershowitz was an executive producer on Fallen, The 1998 series thriller with Denzel Washington, John Goodman and Donald Sutherland. Its producing credits also include two other features in Kazan’s enclosure – The whole truth (2016) and Dream lover (1994), which Kazan also directed – with Martians return home (1989). He was also an assistant on Oliver Stone Wall Street (1987) and Radio (1988).

Born June 23, 1961 in Cambridge, Ma, the young Dershowitz was also a producer of the Kazan-Script TV movie The Devil of the Defender, Based on the book by Alan Dershowitz, and Espn ‘Telepic’s Pete Rose in trials,, Whose curse is worse: the Red Sox and the Cubs in trials And Break up the Bombers: Yankees in trials (2004). He also produced his podcast his father Dershow And had some role in Steven Soderbergh’s film in 2009 Girlfriend’s experience.

Alan Dershowitz also told JNS that his son had been diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of 10, and the doctors said that he would not live to see his Mitzvah bar at 13.

The eldest Dershowitz made its name to defend celebrities in high -level cases, notably Patty Hearts, Mike Tyson, Julian Assange and more recently Harvey Weinstein. It was served as an advisor to “the dream team” who defended OJ Simpson in “The Trial of the Century”, worked on the defense of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid -2000s and represented President Donald Trump during his first indictment. He also wrote dozens of books.

With his father, Dershowitz is survived by his mother-in-law, Carolyn; Brother Jamin and Sister Ella and their families; and other extended family. His mother, Sue, died in 1983.