Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, and More Celebrities Pay Tribute to Richard Belzer

Winters wrote on Instagram, "Richard Belzer was my brother. We became fast friends in '92 when I was a bartender, faster friends when I did my first job on NBC's HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET and in 1998 he called me and said 'baby, Dick Wolf is doing a new show called LAW and ORDER SVU and he wants me to be on it. I told Dick '"Only if you make Dean Winters my partner, Brian Cassidy" Baby, are you in?'
I was in. There aren't a lot of people with class like that left. 'Classe non e acqua'
Everyone can have water, not everyone can have class. Richard Belzer had class for days. I will miss this man very much❤️."