Melvin Belli Autographs
Melvin Mouron Belli (/ˈbɛlaɪ/ BEL-eye; July 29, 1907 – July 9, 1996) was an American lawyer and writer known as "The King of Torts" and by insurance companies as "Melvin Bellicose". He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, The Rolling Stones, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha Mitchell, Maureen Connolly, Lana Turner, Tony Curtis, and Mae West. During his legal career, he won over $600 million in damages for his clients. He was also the attorney for Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Belli was born in the California Gold Rush town of Sonora, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills. His parents were of Italian ancestry from Switzerland. His grandmother, Anna Mouron, was the first female pharmacist in California. By the 1920s, the family had moved to the Central Valley city of Stockton, California, where Belli attended the now-defunct Stockton High School.
Belli graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. After traveling around the world, he returned to the U.C. Berkeley School of Law from which he earned his law degree in 1933.
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Traded items with a signature of Melvin Belli
The most expensive item with a signature of Melvin Belli (Melvin Belli Personal Handwritten Case Notes Trial Book with Signed Law Book) was sold in May 2016 for $225.00 while the cheapest item (Frist Day Cover Signed by Melvin Belli) found a new owner for $0.99 in October 2010. The month with the most items sold (3) was January 2016 with an average selling price of $15.00 for an autographed item of Melvin Belli. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $109.72 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.88 was January 2022. In average, an autographed item from Melvin Belli is worth $19.97.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Melvin Belli were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | FAMOUS LAWYER "MELVIN BELLI: MY LIFE ON TRIAL" SIGNED BOOK (WITH CHRISTMAS CARD) | $23.49 |  |
| FAMOUS LAWYER "MELVIN BELLI: MY LIFE ON TRIAL" SIGNED BOOK (WITH CHRISTMAS CARD) | $23.49 | |
| MELVIN BELLI - SIGNED - LAWYER - 1956 - ACTING ROLES - JFK - STAR TREK | $163.50 | |
| MELVIN BELLI flamboyant lawyer My Life on Trial signed 1976 courtroom autograph | $15.00 | |
| MELVIN BELLI flamboyant lawyer My Life on Trial signed 1976 courtroom autograph | $15.00 | |
| MELVIN BELLI flamboyant lawyer My Life on Trial signed 1976 courtroom autograph | $21.00 | |
| MELVIN BELLI flamboyant lawyer My Life on Trial signed 1976 courtroom autograph | $21.00 | |
 | MELVIN BELLI hand-signed 3x5 card BOLD LARGE authentic autograph FAMOUS LAWYER | $29.49 | |
| MELVIN BELLI hand-signed 3x5 card BOLD LARGE authentic autograph FAMOUS LAWYER | $29.49 | |
 | MY LIFE ON TRIAL by Melvin Belli & Robert Kaiser. 1st ed. 1976. SIGNED by both | $55.00 | |
| MY LIFE ON TRIAL by Melvin Belli & Robert Kaiser. 1st ed. 1976. SIGNED by both | $55.00 | |
| MY LIFE ON TRIAL by Melvin Belli & Robert Kaiser. INSCRIBED/SIGNED | $60.00 | |
| MY LIFE ON TRIAL by Melvin Belli & Robert Kaiser. INSCRIBED/SIGNED | $60.00 | |
| Vintage Melvin Belli signed Belli building booklet autograph celebrity lawyer | $82.00 | |
| Vintage Melvin Belli signed Belli building booklet autograph celebrity lawyer | $82.00 | |
