But Mason's creator, Erle Stanley Gardner — whose own legal career bore similarities to Ehrlich's — did not make any such statement.
"[2] His celebrity clients include actors, writers, night club entertainers, directors, musicians, sports figures, industrialists, madames, murderers, bigamists and petty crooks.
Included in his client list were Alexander Pantages for statutory rape, Gene Krupa for cannabis and Billie Holiday for heroin,[3] as well as Errol Flynn and James Mason for divorce, Howard Hughes for the movie The Outlaw,[2] and Gertrude Morris for murdering her husband in 1952.
[5] The residence Ehrlich designed with a sliding glass roof at the top of Camino Alto Road in Marin County, in Northern California, was later owned by rock promoter Bill Graham.
Ehrlich loved to tell people visiting his home that the electronic roof was actually powered by clients who were unable to pay their legal bills.