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Business News Obituaries
Former Jackson lawyer commits suicide
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 5 May 2010
US music industry lawyer Peter Lopez committed suicide outside his home in the Encino district of LA on Friday. He was 60. The LA coroner’s office confirmed yesterday that the cause of death was self-inflicted gunshot wounds. According to TMZ, Lopez left a suicide note asking for forgiveness but no reason for his decision to end his life has been made public.
A founder of the Kleinberg, Lopez, Lange, Cuddy And Klein law firm, Lopez represented a number of high profile musicians over the years, including Andrea Bocelli, The Eagles, Julio Iglesias, Michael Buble and, most famously, Michael Jackson. He was also appointed to the California State Athletic Commission by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007.
Lopez married actress Catherine Bach, best known as Daisy Duke in ‘The Dukes Of Hazzard’, in 1990 and the couple had two daughters, Sophia and Laura. He is also survived by a son from a previous marriage, Michael, a brother, Arthur, and his parents, Eleanor and Arturo.
