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David Geffen Biography (1943-)
Born February 21, 1943, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Abraham and Batya (an owner of a corset business) Geffen. Addresses: OFFICE--Geffen Films, 9130 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
David Geffen's unique entrepreneurial career spans the recording industry, the movies, and Broadway plays.
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By his mid-forties Geffen established himself as a bi-coastal mogul who earned rich profits by backing such varied projectsas albums by Jackson Browne, the Broadway musical Cats, and the feature filmRisky Business. In a July 21, 1985 New York Times Magazine feature, Don Shewey called Geffen a tastemaker with proven good judgment who "mediates betweenthe interests of businessmen in making money and the interests of artists indoing good work." A self-made man who earned a million dollars before he turned twenty-five, Geffen stepped away from the entertainment industry between 1976 and 1980 when he was told he had cancer.
Since returning to the business,he has reco