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Ari Emanuel

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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

  1. ^ Horn, John. ""A Green Light for 'Aqua'?"". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2006-07-28.
  2. ^ Hendrix, Steve (October 22,2006). "Fighting for the Spoils". Washington Post. p. D01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Retrieved on Jan. 9, 2007