Sidney Davidoff, 1939 – 2025

Lawyer and occasional actor Sidney Davidoff, 86, died on Nov. 16. Davidoff passed the bar in 1963, was administrative assistant to New York Mayor John Lindsay, and found himself on Nixon’s enemies list (“a first class S.O.B., wheeler-dealer and suspected bagman”). He was senior partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, and formed the New York Advocacy Association, a "lobbying group for lobbyists” (I will back slowly away in confusion from that one). As an actor, Davidoff appeared in Spin City and The Sopranos.