Louis B. Mayer; disowned his daughter Edith for marrying
William Goetz.
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Mayer in 1953
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goetz
William Goetz
William Goetz was an American Hollywood film producer and studio executive. William Goetz died of cancer in 1969 at his home in Los Angeles and was buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Wikipedia
Born: March 24, 1903, Philadelphia, PA
Died: August 15, 1969, Los Angeles, CA
Griffin kept many details of his personal and business life private, including his alleged homosexuality,[16] although he was subject to unsuccessful lawsuits by Dance Fever host Deney Terrio, alleging sexual harassment, and by assistant Brent Plott seeking $200 million in palimony. He remained friends with his ex-wife, whom he credited with creating the premise ofJeopardy!. On being wealthy he said that "if people know you're rich they don't talk with you when you walk down the street." He kept his wealth as an open secret, amassing media outlets, hotels and casinos with a net worth widely estimated at more than a billion dollars. Griffin stated he did not really know his worth because it "would keep me from sleeping at night".[17] He and former First Lady Nancy Reagan exchanged birthday greetings each July 6, for they shared the same birthday. Griffin was also an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of President Ronald Reagan in 2004. He was friends with both of the Reagans for many years.[18]
..Author Darwin Porter’s ; Griffin with Merv Griffin: a Life in the Closet. Having just hit bookstores, Porter is on a media tour — a stop that includes Cindy Adam’s column.
Of Griffin, Porter says, “We met in ’59 when he sang for my senior prom and the student committee paid him $500. What he made then was a far cry from the billionaire he was at the end.”
But what about the sex? “He lost his virginity, to a female, that is, when Judy Garland seduced him. His first crush was Errol Flynn, whom he saw passed out naked on a couch. His roommate a year and a half was Montgomery Clift. He lived with Roddy McDowall here at the Dakota, where he introduced Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor. He maintained a virtual male harem and a pimp who supplied porn stars, but I don’t go into his pay-for-gay guys. I keep it to his A-list dates like Rock Hudson, whom he met through Henry Wilson, Rock’s agent, and who advised him to keep his sexuality quiet. And there was a young James Dean selling his sex for cash. Plus Judy Garland’s ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ boy next door, Tom Drake, who, by the way, ended up a used car salesman. There was Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Gordon Scott the then-Tarzan. And lots about Merv’s prolonged sexual tryst with Marlon Brando. There are his experiences at Liberace’s all-male orgies. His first encounter, a boyhood friend he grew up with, later tried writing a book about Merv. This being an era when male actors felt homosexuality was a danger to their career, lawyers shot down that book fast.”
And if that wasn’t scandalous enough: “I write that friends who went to school with him in San Mateo say, when he was a young homosexual growing up, he was sexually molested” by a priest.
Of course, Porter has one thing working for him: almost no threat of litigation. Most of the folks Porter talks about and says Griffin was involved with are, like Griffin, dead. And as any law student knows, you can’t libel the dead. So it doesn’t matter if he calls James Dean a glorified prostitute, or Griffin a pimp. None of this has to be true for him to get a book deal without worrying about getting sued.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin
-------Founder of Scientology;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard#Life_in_hiding
According to the Church of Scientology, Hubbard was "called to Hollywood" to work on film scripts in the mid-1930s, although Scientology accounts differ as to exactly when this was (whether 1935,[72] 1936[44] or 1937[48]). He wrote the script for The Secret of Treasure Island, a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial.[73] The Church of Scientology claims he also worked on the Columbia serials The Mysterious Pilot (1937), The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938) and The Spider Returns(1941),[48] though his name does not appear on the credits. Hubbard also claimed to have written Dive Bomber (1941),[74][75]Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman (1936) and John Ford's Stagecoach (1939).[76]
Hubbard's literary earnings helped him to support his new wife, Margaret "Polly" Grubb. She was already pregnant when they married on April 13, 1933, but she had a spontaneous abortion shortly afterwards; a few months later, she became pregnant again.[77] On May 7, 1934, she gave birth prematurely to a son who was named Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr. and the nickname "His Nibs", invariably shortened to "Nibs".[78] Their second child, Katherine May, was born on January 15, 1936.[79]The Hubbards lived for a while in Laytonsville, Maryland, but were chronically short of money.[80]
In the spring of 1936 they moved to Bremerton, Washington. They lived there for a time with Hubbard's aunts and grandmother before finding a place of their own at nearby South Colby. According to one of his friends at the time, Robert MacDonald Ford, the Hubbards were "in fairly dire straits for money" but sustained themselves on the income from Hubbard's writing.[81] Hubbard spent an increasing amount of time in New York City,[82] working out of a hotel room where his wife suspected him of carrying on affairs with other women.[83][84]
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Leif Garretthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Garrett
Leif Garrett (born Leif Per Nervik; November 8, 1961) is an Americansinger, actor and television personality. He became famous in the late 1970s as a teen idol, but received much publicity in later life for his drug abuse and legal troubles.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wasserman
Lewis Robert "Lew" Wasserman (March 22, 1913 – June 3, 2002) was an American talent agent and studio executive,
Wasserman was married to Edith "Edie" Beckerman who was also Jewish.[3] They had one child, a daughter, Lynne Kay Wasserman.[4] Lynne married
MCA agent Ron Leif with whom she had a daughter, Carol Ann Leif; they later divorced.[5] In 1970, Lynne married stockbroker Jack Meyrowitz. They changed their name to Myers and had a son Casey Wasserman. This marriage also ended in divorce.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wasserman#Personal_life
Lew Wasserman's
grandson, Casey Wasserman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Wasserman, carries on the family name in the agency business, the Wasserman Media Group (WMG), which he started in 1998. He is also acting President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wasserman Foundation, a charitable organization founded by the Wassermans in 1952 in Beverly Hills.[6] Their granddaughter, Carol Ann Leif, is a stand-up comedian.[6]
In January, 2006 Wasserman Media Group acquired the NBA and MLB sports agent business of Arn Tellem a well-known sports agent who joined Wasserman Media Group as well. Several of Tellem's sports agent colleagues also joined Wasserman Media as part of this deal.[6] Tellem is currently a principal at the company and runs one of the most successful management groups in the business.
In November 2006, the company acquired a leading soccer agency, SFX, in the UK.[7] Through that acquisition, Wasserman represents many of the world's leading soccer players including Steven Gerrard, Robbie Keane, Jamie Carragher, Michael Owen, Tim Cahill, Jonathan Woodgate, Wes Brown, Scott Parker, Jack Wilshere, Park Ji-Sung, Shay Given, Tim Howard andEmile Heskey.[8]
Wasserman's widow, Edie, died on August 18, 2011 at the age of 95,[7][8][9] and is buried with him in the Wasserman family plot at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, Ca.[citation needed]
Ron Meyer (b. 1944) is an American entertainment executive and former talent agent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Meyer
Ron Meyer, Universal president and COO,
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Corey Feldman's 'Coreyography' Details Sexual Abuse He, Corey Haim Faced
Abused at age 11, age 14
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In his new memoir, Coreyography, Corey Feldman details the sexual abuse he and fellow child star Corey Haim endured in Hollywood at the hands of men they worked with and considered friends. Due out Oct. 28, the book also describes years of drug abuse both he and Haim faced.
On the 1986 set of "Lucas," Haim told Feldman that “an adult male convinced him that it was perfectly normal for older men and younger boys in the business to have sexual relations, that it was what all the guys do. So they walked off to a secluded area between two trailers ... and Haim allowed himself to be sodomized," Feldman wrote, per an excerpt obtained by Page Six.
After relaying the incident to Feldman, Haim asked, “So, I guess we should play around like that, too?” Feldman dismissed him, saying, that's “not what kids do, man." But Feldman went on to suffer abuse himself, specifically by a man named "Ron," whom his father hired as his assistant. Ron allegedly took advantage of him after turning him onto drugs.
Both Haim and Feldman battled substance abuse issues for years. Feldman, now 42, reached a breaking point when he was arrested for heroin in 1990 at 19 years old. After two more drug arrests, he got sober. Haim was in and out of rehab for addiction 15 times before his death in 2010.
“Corey was raped at the age of 11,” Feldman writes, via the New York Daily News, “and like many, many victims, drug use became an easy, if also tragic, way for him to escape the weight of that shame.”
Two years before he died, Haim opened up to People magazine about his demons.
"I was very, very awake and very ashamed of what was going on, how I put it, I was just ... coming into Hollywood, man, [I was] just a horny little kid, like on drugs, getting fed drugs, man, by vampires," he said of being abused at 14. "I still blame myself to an extent, but my conscience is much, much more clear. I have come to terms with this a long time ago but obviously not [totally]. Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life."
In 2011, Feldman told "Nightline" that a "Hollywood mogul" who abused Haim is to blame for the late actor's death. He said pedophilia was and still is Hollywood's biggest problem and darkest secret.
