Family Of Epstein’s Former Defense Attorney Who Died Speaks Out And Reveals Cause Of Death

More answers have been released on the death of Jeffrey Epstein’s former defense attorney.

As the WLT Report previously reported, Roy Black, the former defense attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, died at the age of 80.

As Epstein’s former defense attorney, Roy Black helped Epstein secure a “sweetheart” deal in 2008.

Now, Black’s family has come forward to speak out against claims he was taken out for nefarious purposes.

The Miami Herald broke the story of black’s family’s comments on his death:

When major news media reported on Tuesday about the death of renowned Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black, many outlets highlighted that he was a member of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s prominent legal team in his sex-abuse case. Well, it was only a matter of minutes, if not seconds, that conspiracy theorists began spewing on social media about a suspicious link between Black’s death and the resurging Epstein scandal that is engulfing President Donald Trump, the White House and the Department of Justice.

Viral posts claimed Black’s death was “no coincidence,” calling it “another piece removed from the board.” TOP VIDEOS The video player is currently playing an ad. The reality is, Black had been fighting an undisclosed terminal illness before he died at his Coral Gables home on Monday at 80, according to his law partner Howard Srebnick and the Black family.

Roy Black, one of the nation’s premier defense lawyers, dies in Coral Gables at 80 “Roy was courageously battling a life-threatening illness for many months, requiring aggressive treatments, which ultimately led to dehydration and renal failure,” they said in a statement provided on Wednesday to the Miami Herald.

Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black Handout The coincidental timing of Black’s death thrust the legal legend into the Epstein cauldron stirred up by right-wingers and MAGA constituents who have widely condemned the Justice Department — along with Trump — for not disclosing the full record of the federal government’s sex-trafficking case against the New York and Palm Beach billionaire, as had been repeatedly promised by the president when he was campaigning for a second term.

🤔DEAD…Roy Black the West Palm Beach attorney for Jeffrey Epstein when the Feds decided NOT TO FILE their 53 page indictment against him after negotiation in 2011. Well he died today.
The victims were outraged back then and wanted to send him back to jail since they were… pic.twitter.com/ZHaozJpz7I

— Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) July 22, 2025

The ABA Journal reported more on Black’s legal career:

Criminal defense lawyer Roy Black, known for representation of defendants who included multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and physician William Kennedy Smith, a member of the Kennedy family, died Monday at age 80.

One of Black’s law partners, Howard Srebnick of Black Srebnick in Miami, told Law.com and the Miami Herald that his colleague “was the greatest criminal lawyer of our generation, perhaps in American history.”

Black won acquittals “in some of the most challenging and notorious cases of all time,” Srebnick said.

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“He really was the GOAT of criminal defense lawyers,” wrote criminal defense trial and appellate lawyer David Oscar Markus at the Southern District of Florida Blog. Markus told the Associated Press in an email that Black “worked harder than any lawyer I know. And he outlawyered every prosecutor who he ever went up against.”

Other high-profile clients besides Epstein and Smith included singer Justin Bieber, conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh, race car driver Helio Castroneves and Columbian drug lord Fabio Ochoa.