Alec Baldwin’s „Rust“ lawyer, Alex Spiro, has represented a number of celebrity clients in court including Elon Musk, Jay-Z, Megan Thee Stallion and Mick Jagger.
When it came time to fight the involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal „Rust“ shooting, Alec Baldwin entrusted his freedom to a 41-year-old man with a roster of Hollywood clients: Alex Spiro.
Spiro, a Harvard Law School graduate who was recently named as one of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 100 Attorneys, knows about litigating high-profile cases as a partner at the high-end Quinn Emanuel firm in New York.
He became a talking point among social media sleuths for his fiery way with words in the courtroom and 6’4″ disposition, but behind the man who was intent on keeping Baldwin out of prison is an already stacked list of court wins for A-list stars.
Spiro’s represented Elon Musk a handful of times, including with his 2022 bid to end a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter amid whistleblower claims about security issues. Later that year, Spiro was appointed to oversee Twitter’s legal, marketing, and trust and safety teams.
He defended Musk once again in 2023 in a securities fraud trial where Elon was found not liable for misleading investors who claimed a 2018 Musk tweet referencing „funding secured“ was not related to his Tesla company.
Spiro initially fought for Musk in a 2019 defamation case filed by Vernon Unsworth related to the Tham Luang cave rescue. At the time, Musk had called Unsworth „sus“ (suspicious) and a „pedo guy“ on the social media platform. The lawsuit marked one of the first defamation suits brought by a private individual over a tweet to go to trial.
