Marvin Mitchelson and his wife Marcella drink Champagne in their home whilst toasting two stuffed parrots May 5, 1988 Marvin M. Mitchelson (May 7, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan – September 18, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American celebrity lawyer who pioneered the concept of palimony, calling it "marriage with no rings attached."During his heyday Mitchelson owned a 38-room Beverly Hills mansion (which now belongs to Johnny Depp), four Rolls-Royce automobiles, and he epitomised the 1970s California champagne-and-cocaine lifestyle, consuming both in increasingly large quantities until a series of unpaid tax bills and malpractice complaints caught up with him. He was also forcibly evicted, in the late 1970s, from a home he was renting in Beverly Hills. He made a brief cameo appearance on The Golden Girls ("There Goes the Bride"), appearing as himself; his role was as a lawyer for Stanley Zbornak, ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak. In the episode, he produced a prenuptial agreement which Dorothy had to sign. She refused, and their remarriage was canceled. . Photograph: © Paul Harris, PacificCoastNews. Los Angeles Office: +1 310.822.0419 sales@pacificcoastnews.com FEE MUST BE AGREED PRIOR TO USAGE
