High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Burton Bennett Roberts (July 25, 1922 – October 24, 2010) served as Bronx district attorney before his election as a judge, later serving as the chief administrative judge for the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx until his retirement in 1998 after 25 years on the bench. His no-nonsense manner as a prosecutor and in court made him the model for the character Myron Kovitsky in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Upon retirement he entered private practice with the politically connected firm of Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding. He said he worked for "a very fine firm with very fine people", but regretted not serving as a judge, saying "I enjoyed the other life more. I always felt I could do things for more people in public life". Roberts died of respiratory failure at the age of 88 on October 24, 2010, at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, Bronx where he had resided for the year before his death. He was survived by his wife, the former Gerhild Hammer, whom he married in 1982 after decades of bachelorhood.

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