Ari Emanuel
Ariel "Ari" Emanuel is a prominent talent agent and founder of the Endeavor Agency in Beverly Hills, California.
Jeremy Piven's character, Ari Gold, on the HBO television show Entourage is based on Emanuel.[1]
Raised in surburban Wilmette, Illinois, outside Chicago, Emanuel is the brother of U.S. Congressman Rahm Emanuel, and NIH bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emmanuel; his father, the Jerusalem-born Dr. Benjamin M. Emanuel is a pediatrician, who was once involved in "the pre-independence Israeli underground".[2] His mother, Martha Emanuel (Née Smulevitz), was a civil rights activist. He is a graduate of New Trier West High School and of Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota. He represents Larry David, Michael Moore, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Mark Wahlberg, among others.
References
- ^ Horn, John. ""A Green Light for 'Aqua'?"". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2006-07-28.
- ^ Hendrix, Steve (October 22,2006). "Fighting for the Spoils". Washington Post. p. D01.
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