By: Alex Ben Block
Sugar Ray Leonard, Pat O'Brien, Alan Thicke and Gloria Allred attended the event hosted by The Brent Shapiro Foundation, named in honor of the attorney's late son.
The sixth annual Summer Spectacular put on by The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Awareness raised about $500,000 on Saturday night without selling a single ticket to a dinner that drew around 500 guests from the worlds of entertainment, politics, business and sports to a spectacular mansion in Beverly Hills.
The foundation is named after the late son of Robert Shapiro, the attorney known for successfully defending O.J. Simpson in the mid-1990s and handling many other celebrity clients. His son struggled with alcohol and drugs and was clean for a time before taking a drink and using the drug ecstasy one night in 2005, which led to his death at the age of 24.
Shapiro explained that all the guests are there by invitation and the money raised comes from donations and pledges during an auction, with Shapiro as auctioneer, that included the sale of everything from jewelry to trips to Las Vegas and South Africa. The event was held on the grounds of a 40,000 square foot mansion off Coldwater Canyon owned by Jeffrey Greene.
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Sugar Ray Leonard, Pat O'Brien, Alan Thicke and Gloria Allred attended the event hosted by The Brent Shapiro Foundation, named in honor of the attorney's late son.
The sixth annual Summer Spectacular put on by The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Awareness raised about $500,000 on Saturday night without selling a single ticket to a dinner that drew around 500 guests from the worlds of entertainment, politics, business and sports to a spectacular mansion in Beverly Hills.
The foundation is named after the late son of Robert Shapiro, the attorney known for successfully defending O.J. Simpson in the mid-1990s and handling many other celebrity clients. His son struggled with alcohol and drugs and was clean for a time before taking a drink and using the drug ecstasy one night in 2005, which led to his death at the age of 24.
Shapiro explained that all the guests are there by invitation and the money raised comes from donations and pledges during an auction, with Shapiro as auctioneer, that included the sale of everything from jewelry to trips to Las Vegas and South Africa. The event was held on the grounds of a 40,000 square foot mansion off Coldwater Canyon owned by Jeffrey Greene.
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