- He's one of the many people mentioned in Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire" (1989).
- He had an extensive collection of stuffed animals.
- A famous no-show in many court cases.
- Co-Counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the House of Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings.
- He was the inspiration for the character of the blue haired lawyer on the animated series The Simpsons (1989).
- Is portrayed by James Woods in Citizen Cohn (1992), Al Pacino in Angels in America (2003), Ron Vawter in Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1994) and Nathan Lane in "Angels in America" at the Neil Simon Theater (NYC) (2017).
- Almost never used notes when in court.
- A close personal friend of Barbara Walters.
- Graduated from Columbia Law School at the age of twenty.
- He was the youngest U.S. Assistant Attorney of Manhattan at the time.
- Cohn drew up the prenuptial contract between Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana Trump (Ivana Marie Zelnickova) when they married in 1977, a contract that allowed Ivana Trump a relatively meager $20,000 a year.
- Maintained longtime close personal relationships with Donald Trump and Roger Stone, and was a major mentor to Trump, the two talking on a nearly daily basis.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 188-191. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Close confidant of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.
- Father was a New York State Supreme Court justice. Mother was a heiress.
- At the age of fifteen he arranged his first kickback, connecting the father of a friend who wanted to purchase a radio station with a Federal Communications Commission lawyer.
- After passing the New York Bar Exam at the age of 21 he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. His most high profile case was the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg atom bomb secrets trial.
- He lived with his mother until her passing when Roy was forty years old.
- His great-uncle was Joshua Lionel Cowen, the founder and long time owner of the Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of toy trains.
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