Edward P. Lozzi, the longtime Hollywood publicist, has died. He was 77. After a 49-year PR career, Lozzi died April 22 after a brief illness, according to publicist and longtime friend Roger Neal. “Ed was a great publicist, we worked on projects together off and on over these past 45 years. He was my oldest friend in Hollywood,” Neal said in a statement. Lozzi ran his own Beverly Hills boutique PR firm, Edward Lozzi & Associates, and represented notables including Jon Voight , Milton Berle, Larry Hagman, Debbie Reynolds , Lou Ferrigno, Shirley Jones, Rudy Valle, Melvin Belli and, for more than 25 years until she was murdered in 2003 by record producer Phil Spector, Lana Clarkson. In 2013, Lozzi stood outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to protest a screening of the HBO film  Phil Spector  and claimed the project implied Clarkson had committed suicide. “To see that this film was going to be made was a slap in the face,” Lozzi  told THR at the time .…