Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Hollywood talent agency WME-IMG and brother to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, announced on Tuesday that he is forming a political action committee. Together with his co-CEO Patrick Whitesell, Emanuel sent out a company-wide memo detailing some of their plans, according to Politico. “This company’s greatest asset is the diversity of…
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel might have helped Donald Trump keep damning Miss Universe tapes quiet, according to the Daily Beast. Emanuel was an outspoken supporter and fundraiser for Barack Obama and his brother Rahm served in Obama’s administration before becoming mayor of Chicago. But the powerful Hollywood agent was also close with Trump and represented…
Was this meeting at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, so different from all the others? In a day filled with meetings at his Golf Club, President-elect Donald Trump met with the Ari Emanuel, the co-CEO of a Hollywood talent agency named WME-IMG. Trump dubbed Emanuel as the “King of Hollywood” according…
● Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family By Ezekiel Emanuel Random House, 288 pages, $27 As near as I can tell, it was New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller who brought the world’s attention to the phenomenon of the three fabulous Emanuel brothers from Wilmette, Ill. Before Bumiller’s 1997 article, people in medicine…
You know Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago? And his brother Ari Emanuel, arguably the most powerful talent agent in Hollywood? Well, they beat me up. Not last week, or last month, or last year, but back in the ’70s, when they were teenagers and I was 10. Mind you, I’m not bitter about it or…
Guys named Ari were everywhere (relatively speaking) at Tuesday night’s premiere party for the new season of “Entourage,” which took place at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. Jeremy Piven, who plays hard-driving Hollywood agent Ari Gold, was in attendance. So was Ari Emanuel, the real-life Tinseltown dealmaker on whom the character is…
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