Sidney Roy Korshak (June 6, 1907 – January 20, 1996) was an American lawyer and "fixer" for businessmen in the upper echelons of power and the Chicago Outfit in the United States.
[1] Sidney's younger brother, Morris Jerome "Marshall" Korshak (1910–1996), became a longtime Chicago politician, city treasurer and state senator.
Korshak's law practice brought him into contact with many mobsters, such as Al Capone,[2] Frank Nitti, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo and Moe Dalitz.
Korshak numbered among his friends many Hollywood celebrities and leading figures in the entertainment industry, including MCA/Universal chiefs Jules C. Stein, Lew Wasserman and Sid Sheinberg, entertainment lawyer Paul Ziffren (the driving force behind bringing the 1984 Olympics to Los Angeles), MGM chief Kirk Kerkorian, Gulf+Western founder Charles Bluhdorn, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, William French Smith (labor attorney and future United States Attorney General), California governor Edmund "Pat" Brown and his son, California governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown, Governor of California Gray Davis, producer Robert Evans, Warren Beatty, Barron Hilton and Hugh Hefner.
He then sold 143,000 shares to pivotal figures in the stock market including Bernard Cornfeld, who owned the FOF Property Fund, in Switzerland.