David Geffen

Entrepreneur

David Geffen was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on February 21st, 1943 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 81, David Geffen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
February 21, 1943
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Age
81 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$8 Billion
Profession
Art Collector, Businessperson, Film Producer, Music Executive, Record Producer, Talent Agent, Television Producer, Theatrical Producer
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David Geffen Life

David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American business magnate, film editor, and philanthropist.

In 1971, Geffen Records, Elliot Roberts, Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and DreamWorks SKG in 1994.

He has contributed to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and other educational and research institutes as a philanthropist.

Early life

David Geffen was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham Geffen and Batya Volovskaya (1909–1988). Geffen's mother owned Chic Corsets by Geffen, a clothing store in Borough Park. Both of his parents were Jewish immigrants who lived in British Mandatory Palestine and then migrated to the United States. Geffen graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1960 with a "barely passing 66 percent average." He attended the University of Texas at Austin for a semester and then Brooklyn College before losing out. He then moved to Los Angeles, California, to find his place in the entertainment industry. He attended Santa Monica College (then known as Santa Monica City College) in Santa Monica, California, but shortly left. Geffen attributed his school struggles to dyslexia.

Personal life

Geffen is one of the richest people in the entertainment industry, with a net worth of $10.8 billion.

Geffen eventually came out as gay in 1992, but not only closeted but worried about his true sexuality and the rumors that ensued. Geffen came first in its list of the 50 "Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America" in May 2007.

Joni Mitchell and Geffen, along with Robbie Robertson and Robertson's wife Dominique, were close friends and, in the early 1970s, they travelled to Paris. Mitchell wrote "Free Man in Paris" about Geffen as a result of the trip.

Geffen can be found on Barbra Streisand's The Broadway Album, which was released in 1985. Geffen, Sydney Pollack, and Ken Sylk portray the voices of record company executives talking to St. Staisand.

Geffen is the subject of several books, the most notable of which is The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood (2001) by Tom King, who at first had Geffen's collaboration but later did not. Stephen Singular's biography The Rise and Fall of David Geffen (1997) was a predecessor to his book The Rise and Rise of David Geffen (1997). In addition to being a main character in Mailroom: Hollywood History By David Rensen, in Mansion On The Hill by Barney Hoskyns, and several books about Michael Ovitz.

Inventing David Geffen, an American Masters PBS television series, was on display in New York City. Susan Lacy produced the documentary, which was first broadcast on November 20, 2012.

Mitchell (born Mischa) Geffen (1933-1936-1960) was an attorney who attended UCLA Law School and later settled in Encino, California. Mitchell Geffen fathered two daughters, David's closest surviving relatives.

Geffen's Beverly Hills estate was sold to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for $165 million in February 2020, the highest price ever paid for a home in a California real estate sale. Geffen bought Casey Wasserman's Beverly Hills home for $68 million in June 2020.

Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning are among the American artists' works on sale. "There is no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen's," the museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles' chief curator says.

Geffen sold two paintings by Jasper Johns and a De Kooning from his collection in October 2006 for a total of $143.5 million. Geffen had sold Pollock's 1948 painting No. 93, according to The New York Times on November 3, 2006. David Martinez, a Mexican financier, received $140 million (£73.35 million) from his collection on May 5, 1948. Martinez is the founder of Fintech Advisory Ltd, a financial company that specializes in buying Third World debt. The auction took home the No. 1 position. 5, 1948 the most expensive painting to ever sell (outstripping the $134 million paid for Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, acquired by cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder in October 2006).

Geffen owns the world's most valuable private art collection, according to Wealth-X, and the estimate is that it is worth $1.1 billion at the time.

According to Bloomberg News, Geffen sold De Kooning's 1955 oil painting, Interchanged, for $300 million, and Pollock's 1948 painting, Number 17A, for $200 million, both to hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin.

In 2007, Geffen bought a half-share in my friend Larry Ellison's luxurious yacht Rising Sun, which later became the sixth largest motor yacht in the country at 138 meters (453 ft). Ellison sold his remaining half of Rising Sun to Geffen in 2010 after Ellison ordered a new and more compact 91 meters (299 ft) yacht.

In 2009, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich signed a divorce agreement with his wife Irina that culminated in her purchase of the Pelorus, a 115-meter (377 ft) yacht. Geffen was approached by broker Merle Wood, and the pair purchased Pelorus in 2011 for $300 million. Pelorus was sold by Geffen to Sheikh Abdullah bin Sultan Al Nahyan for €214 million, more than €15 million over its former price.

Geffen retaliated on Instagram when he and a 45-member crew were self-isolating in the Grenadines on the Rising Sun during the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Geffen has been ranked as the most polluting individual American and the second most polluting individual in the world, owing in large part to his yachts.

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David Geffen Career

Business career

Geffen began his entertainment career in the William Morris Agency (WMA), where he quickly became a talent agent after a brief appearance in the 1961 film The Explosive Generation. He had to demonstrate that he was a college graduate in order to get a WMA job. In an interview with WMA, he stated that he obtained from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Geffen, who worked in the mailroom, was able to intercept a letter from UCLA to WMA claiming that he did not graduate from UCLA. He edited the letter to show that he had attended and graduated and then submitted it to the WMA. He worked as a mailroom clerk and then WMA agent from 1964 to 1968.

He started as a talent agent for Ashley Famous Agency in 1968. He served as Executive Vice President and Talent Agent for Creative Management Associates in 1969.

Elliot Roberts, who later became Geffen's partner in a management company, was among his mailroom coworkers. Geffen hired William Morris to be a personal manager, and his collaboration with Laura Nyro and Crosby, Stills and Nash, was immediately fruitful. When Geffen was searching for a legendary young Jackson Browne contract, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun suggested that Geffen start his own record label.

After Geffen was unable to get Jackson Browne a record contract anywhere else, Geffen co-founded Asylum Records in 1971 with Elliot Roberts. The owner's reputation for signing artists meant that they would be unable to find a record company that would contract with them. At this point, Atlantic Records was not distributing the label. Asylum became a producer of the Southern California folk-rock sound and signed artists such as Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon, Judee Sill, and J.D. Souther. Geffen left Asylum, which was later purchased by Atlantic's parent company Warner Communications, and merged with Elektra Records in 1972 to become Elektra/Asylum Records. The label was revived in 2004 as an urban music operation, securing hip-hop artists like Waka Flocka Flame, Cam'ron, Gucci Mane, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, and Bun B.

Geffen stayed in charge until 1976, when he took over as vice chairman of Warner Bros. film studios. He then resigned and was told (erroneously) that he had cancer in 1977. During his retirement period, he served at Yale University for a short time (both fall and spring of 1979) teaching a noncredit seminar on the music industry and arts management, where he featured classroom guests Jackson Browne and Paul Simon. A new medical diagnosis revealed the mistake in the initial diagnosis in 1980, and Geffen was given a clean bill of health, whereupon he returned to work in the entertainment industry.

Ed Rosenblatt, a 1980-born executive, founded Geffen Records and recruited Warner Bros. as president. The Geffen brand's meteoric rise to fame within the year was a bittersweet triumph. Donna Summer, Geffen's first artist to sign on, was a tenacious youngster who was threatening to leave Casablanca/PolyGram Records. Geffen shortly after releasing her The Wanderer album, the lead single of which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the album has been certified gold. Casablanca responded by releasing more singles from her 1979 Bad Girls album, such as the song Walk Away and a closely branded hits compilation, but by then, New Wave sound was dominating the airwaves.

The debut of John Lennon's album Double Fantasy in November 1980 appears to be a big achievement for a new brand, but Lennon said that Geffen was the only one with enough confidence in him to commit to a contract without seeing the record first. Geffen was the only brand head to pay attention to her, according to Lennon's wife and partner. Lennon was killed in December 1980, and Double Fantasy became a major seller. Over the years, Geffen Records/DGC has released recordings by artists such as Olivia Newton-John, Asia, Siouxsie, and the Banshees, Elton John, Cher, Elton John, Cher, Elder, Eric Ramsey, Whitesnake, Peter Gabriel, Blink-182, Guns N' Roses, Stephen Young, The Stone Roses, and Neil Young.

Since its inception, Warner Bros. Records has distributed the label, but in 1990, the company was sold to MCA Records, with Geffen receiving shares in MCA worth $550 million. Matsushita Electric bought MCA and Geffen paid $670 million. Geffen continued to perform the label until leaving Geffen Records in 1995. The Geffen brand is now part of MCA's Interscope-Geffen-A&M division, which was established as the result of the 1999 merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels.

Geffen produced gruesome comedies such as the remake of Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Risky Company (1983), and Beetlejuice (1988). Geffen, the Broadway backer for the musicals Dreamgirls and Cats, was on Broadway. Geffen co-founded the DreamWorks SKG studio in 1994 with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Dreamworks and ABC agreed to a $100 million contract in 1995. Geffen left DreamWorks in 2008.

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Following a measles outbreak, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida's surgeon general, was accused of endangering unvaccinated children at one school by failing to advise parents that they should keep them at home. However, this isn't the first time a top doctor has come under fire.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, December 11, 2023
After a string of fundraisers attended by a bewildering number of actors, including Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Shonda Rhimes, Rob Reiner, and David Geffen, President Joe Biden left Los Angeles with $15 million more in his campaign coffers than he started. During their whirlwind three days on the West Coast, president and first lady Jill Biden attended six private fundraising activities as well as sat in shiva at the home of TV actress Norman Lear. The time was spent with a $15 million budget, according to The Hollywood Reporter, citing a source close to Jeffrey Katzenberg, the DreamWorks and Biden campaign co-chair.