Yes, the real Erin Brockovich really does dress like that.
"My dress code is not designed to offend anybody," she said. "It's just the way I dress." Speaking before the National Press Club, Brockovich — wearing a tight, low-cut black lace top under a jacket — was as brash and plain-talking Thursday as portrayed by Julia Roberts' in her Academy Award-winning performance.
"If you think for one minute while I was doing this litigation that I ever stopped to ponder, to think, 'Hey, this case is going to settle for 333 million dollars, they're going to make a movie about it, Julia Roberts is going to play me, they're going to name it Erin Brockovich, and I'm going to get a $2 million bonus to boot,' I would have been committed," she said.
Since the 1996 settlement with Pacific Gas and Electric Co., 50 plaintiffs have died, as well as 51 employees of the utility, Brockovich said. Now she directs environmental research at the law firm of Masry & Vititoe. Brockovich also gives lectures even as she battles toxic mold in her home.