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Erin
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Erin Brockovich crashed into public consciousness in 2000 as the straight-talking, pleather-skirted champion of the people whose David and Goliath victory over corporate America inspired the eponymous film. In the ensuing years, she’s become a national treasure through her continued crusade to get the US to clean up its water. People trust her, and they contact her in droves to report disturbing details of contamination in their local supplies. Though Erin, 56, could easily retire and enjoy the simple life in Agoura Hills, California, with her four dogs, she plans to spend the next 20 years harnessing the connectivity of social media for the common good and empowering communities to fight the good fight. Big Business better get its gloves on.
The first thing Erin Brockovich does when you come to her house is offer you a glass of water. This is both comforting and disconcerting coming from a woman whose name is synonymous with drinking-water pollution. I tell her yes, I’d love one, and she cracks open a plastic bottle, pouring its contents into a glass and adding a slice of lemon before handing it to me. I’m suddenly alarmed: I live near here – just 35 miles away in downtown Los Angeles. And if Erin Brockovich isn’t drinking from the tap… “Should I be worried about my water at home?” I ask her.
Ever since Julia Roberts donned six-inch wedges and a pleather miniskirt to play Erin Brockovich in Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 movie that bears her name, Erin has heard this question countless times. The film – “98 per cent true,” she tells me – chronicles her 1993 fight against the power company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), which was poisoning the water in the small town of Hinkley, California, with hexavalent chromium. The pollution was causing cancer, infertility and a barrage of other ailments in people unfortunate enough to live nearby. Erin, who since 1991 had worked as a legal clerk for the law firm Masry & Vititoe, helped the resident American environmental activist This article is about the environmental activist. For the film based on her life, see Erin Brockovich (film). Erin Brockovich Brockovich in 2016 Erin Pattee Lawrence, Kansas, US Shawn Brown Steven Brockovich Eric L. Ellis Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case againstPacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film, Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry. Since then, Brockovich has become a media personality, hosting the TV series Challenge America with Erin Brockovich on ABC and Final Justice on Zone Reality, and became president of Brockovich Research & Consulting. She also works as a consultant for the New York law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg, which has a focus on personal injury claims for asbestos exposure, and Shine Lawyers in Australia. She worked as a consultant for the now-defunct California law firm Girardi & Keese. Erin Pattee Brockovich was born in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Betty Jo (née O'Neal; 1923–2008), a journalist, and Frank Pattee, an industrial engineer and football player. She has two brothers, Frank Jr. and Thomas (1954–1992), and a sister, Jodie. She graduated from Lawrence High School, then attend 2000 film by Steven Soderbergh Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American biographicallegal drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant. The film is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who initiated a legal case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company over its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident. Erin Brockovich premiered in Los Angeles on March 14, 2000, and was released theatrically in the United States by Universal Pictures on March 17, 2000, and internationally by Columbia Pictures. It emerged as a critical and commercial success, grossing $256.3 million worldwide. The film received five nominations at the 73rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor (Albert Finney). For her performance, Roberts won Best Actress at the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, the Golden Globes, and the SAG Awards. Additionally, the film also won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director (for Soderbergh, also for Traffic) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Finney). In 1993, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a car crash with a doctor and is suing him. Her lawyer, Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erin's explosive courtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, and Ed will not return her phone calls afterwards. One day, he arrives at work to find her in the office, apparently working. She says that he told her things would work out and they did not, and that she needed a job. Ed takes pity on Erin, and she gets a paid job at the office. Erin is given files for a real estate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen, a resident of Hinkley, California. Erin (1960-) While working as a file clerk at a Los Angeles law firm in 1992, Erin Brockovich uncovered documents that ultimately led to more than 600 residents of Hinkley, California, filing a lawsuit against utility giant PG&E. The $333 million settlement they received is the largest of its kind in the history of the United States. The story of Brokovich’s life and involvement in the case was the subject of the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, which starred Julia Roberts in the title role. Since the film’s release, Erin Brockovich has continued to work as a consumer advocate and environmental activist. Brockovich was born Erin Pattee in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 22, 1960. The youngest of four children, she grew up in a tightknit middle-class family. Her father was an industrial engineer, and her mother was a journalist. Diagnosed as dyslexic at a young age, Erin was not a particularly good student. After graduating high school in 1978, Brockovich briefly attended Kansas State University before transferring to Miss Wade's Fashion Merchandising College (now Wade College) in Dallas, Texas, where she graduated with an associate’s degree in applied arts in 1980. After earning her degree, Brockovich moved with a friend to Newport Beach, California. After working briefly as a management trainee at Kmart, in 1981 she quit and entered and won the Miss Pacific Coast beauty pageant. She also met her first husband, Shawn Brown, around this time, whom she married in April 1982. The young couple moved around the country for the next few years, during which time Brockovich gave birth to two children, Matthew and Katie. However, their marriage eventually fell apart, and they were divorced in 1987. Now a single mother, to support her children Erin found work as an assistant at a brokerage firm in Reno, Nevada, where she met Steve Brockovich. They married in 1989 but divorced within a year, at which point Brockovich learn Erin Brockovich
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