Houston’s Fierce Superlawyer Who Battles Celebrities Like Diddy and Deshaun Watson — Here’s What Fuels His Relentless Fire!
His work against BP landed him on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. Another Times story dubbed him “a big, mean, ambitious, tenacious, fire-breathing Texas trial lawyer.” Since then, he’s lived up to the bombastic moniker by winning one high-profile case after another. Buzbee defended Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas and energy secretary in Donald Trump’s first term, against his abuse-of-power indictment in criminal court and got the charges dismissed. He successfully defended Texas attorney general Ken Paxton in his impeachment trial. He sued rapper Travis Scott on behalf of families of victims of the deadly Astroworld Festival crowd crush and represents the estate of one of the victims of the fatal Titan submersible implosion.
All the while, he’s utilized his superpower of self-promotion to help keep himself in the public eye—whether it’s buying and parking a fully operational $600,000 World War II–era Sherman tank on the streets of Houston’s bougie River Oaks neighborhood and fighting his homeowners’ association over it, throwing a $1 million Christmas-party fundraiser for Hurricane Harvey relief that was headlined by Snoop Dogg, or rolling out a wheelbarrow of horse manure as a prop at a news conference during his 2019 mayoral campaign to show what he thought about how the incumbent mayor was running the city of Houston.
Buzbee also hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump at his house in Houston in 2016—which he says came back to bite him in his bid to be mayor. “One of the reasons I didn’t do as well as I would have is because they just kept putting out that picture of me and Trump together. That was their whole campaign.”
But his appetite for the spotlight typically works in his favor. “Tony Buzbee is one of the absolute finest advocates for a wronged individual that you will find in this country,” says Perry. “Whether you’re the governor of the state of Texas, the president of the United States, or a very successful personal-injury trial lawyer, we’re all in show business in some form or fashion. Tony Buzbee loves the spotlight. Tony loves show business, and he is really good at it.”
Now the lawyer at the center of some of the most high-profile sexual-assault lawsuits in the country has become almost as big a character as the celebrities and athletes he’s litigating against. That means the scrutiny of the spotlight is, increasingly, focused on him. Fans of the people Buzbee is suing see him as a thirsty attention seeker, and he’s facing growing criticism from observers and legal colleagues who question his methods.
Buzbee appears unfazed by the TMZ of it all. But will his high-octane, confrontational style of litigating continue to prevail against music and NFL legends?
For anyone who uses the Internet, Buzbee is probably best known today as the lawyer most likely to represent victims of alleged sexual assault or misconduct by high-profile celebrities and athletes. Years after representing two dozen female massage therapists in a sexual-harassment settlement against NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson, Buzbee will represent more than a hundred accusers in civil litigation against Diddy. (Both Combs and Watson have denied the allegations against them.)
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