Manhattan Strip Clubs: Death of attorney James Mulvaney
Mulvaney Sr. was born and raised in Queens, graduated from Xavier High School in Manhattan and St. Peter’s College in Jersey City. He was managing editor of the Cornell Law Review (1954) and received a doctorate in law from Georgetown University School of Law (1955). He was a longtime resident of Garden City and later lived for more than a decade in Rockaway Beach and in California for the past three years.
He was married to Eileen Mulvaney, Ed.D., who he met at a Marymount (Manhattan) College dance. She died in 2005.
Mulvaney worked as an Assistant District Attorney under Frank O’Connor in Queens.
As a defense attorney, he was involved in many headline cases including defending Queens District Attorney Thomas Mackell on corruption charges brought by Special Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari in the 1970s.
His most infamous case resulted in the immortal New York Post headline: “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”
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