E. Randol Schoenberg

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E. Randol Schoenberg (born 1966) is a Los Angeles, California based attorney who represented Maria Altmann in the return to her of five Gustav Klimt paintings of the estate of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer. In doing so, he successfully represented Ms. Altmann before the Supreme Court of the United States against the government of Austria. Schoenberg reportedly would receive 40% of the proceeds from the Klimt paintings [1] [2], amounting to a legal fee of over $120 million dollars.

E. Randol Schoenberg is also the grandson of both the Austrian composers Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Zeisl.

E. Randol Schoenberg presently serves as the President of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.