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.

Roy Black, the lawyer who defended high-profile clients including Justin Bieber and Jeffrey Epstein, has died, aged 80, his paw partner said.

Black, who died Monday at his Coral Gables home, was hired as a possible trial attorney in Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach sex-abuse case but Epstein never went to trial. Instead, he took a plea deal.