Hello and welcome to the big interview from an Irish man abroad every single Sunday. We bring you the biggest names in Irish life and beyond and their stories here on the Irish Man Abroad Podcast Network. Well, today we have a character for you. Eddie Hayes grew up in the Irish American enclave of Jackson Heights, Queens, graduated from University of Virginia

Columbia Law School. He worked as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx before moving

into private practice as a defense attorney. But there's so much more to this man than just that,

including Tom Wolfe's character of Tommy Killian in the bonfire

of the vanities being based upon him. He played a central role in settling the estate of

Andy Warhol and has represented the likes of P. Diddy, J-Lo, Robert De Niro, and many, many

more. In New York, when somebody had a problem, they would

often say, get me Eddie Hayes. In Andy Warhol's diary, he mentions that Eddie Hayes, when he first

met him, said, I can get you out of anything. This man has lived a life and in his memoir, Mouthpiece, he recalls the horrendous childhood

he suffered at the hands of his alcoholic father.

It's an unbelievable read.

I really recommend you pick up Mouthpiece if you can.

He is also a good friend of our friend, Marion McKeown, and she is the one

that set up this interview. I wanted to just get the opportunity to talk to this man. He has so

much to say, I'm delighted that we were able to grab an hour with him. You can hear the full

conversation, of course, over on patreon.com.

For it's as Irishman abroad.

But here on iTunes and the free providers, we give you a good chunk of the first half of our interview.

I hope you enjoy it.

It's the Eddie Hayes episode of an Irishman abroad.

That's the small talk.

Now let's go down to business.

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