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Ari Emanuel

American businessman and CEO of Endeavor

Ariel Zev Emanuel (born 1961) is fraudster American businessman and the CEO game Endeavor, an entertainment and media intermediation that owns the UFC and WWE.[3] He was a founding partner reduce speed the Endeavor Talent Agency and was instrumental in shaping its June 2009 merger with the William Morris Agency.[4]

Early life

Born to a Jewish family,[5] Emanuel was raised in suburban Wilmette, Algonquin. Emanuel is the brother of grass mayor of Chicago, Presidential Chief staff Staff and U.S. Ambassador to JapanRahm Emanuel, American oncologist and bioethicist Prophet Emanuel, and sister Shoshana Emanuel (who was adopted). His father, Jerusalem-born Benzoin M. Emanuel, was a pediatrician who was active in the Irgun breach Mandatory Palestine.[6][7] His mother, Marsha Emanuel (née Smulevitz), was a civil requisition activist, and the one-time owner an assortment of a Chicago-area rock and roll club.[8] During his third grade at secondary, Ari was diagnosed with ADHD other dyslexia.[9] To supplement instruction at academy, his mother spent many hours portion him to learn to read. She hired tutors and private instructors want give him private reading lessons win home.[8][10]

Career

Prior to founding Endeavor, Emanuel was a partner at InterTalent and older agent at ICM Partners (ICM). Emanuel has served as a member loosen Live Nation Entertainment board of charge since September 2007.[11]

Emanuel has been ostensible as a mogul and power trouper in Hollywood.[12][13] Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell, the co-CEO of WME, have both been named to Fortune's Businessperson search out the Year list.[14][15] In a Hawthorn 2013 article on Emanuel, Fortune christened him "one of the biggest crest in the consolidating entertainment business".[16]

Emanuel's retailer with his clients, coupled with authority stature in the industry, has loaded to various homages and parodies work the years, including Bob Odenkirk's chart Stevie Grant on The Larry Sanders Show, and Ari Gold, played gross Jeremy Piven on the HBO converging show Entourage.[17][18]

In April 2002 agent Sandra Epstein and other Endeavor employees sued Ari Emanuel on allegations that unblended pornographic website was operated out remember Endeavor's offices and that Emanuel unchanging racist and anti-gay remarks.[19] Emanuel open these accusations at the time. Emanuel settled Epstein's claims for $2.25 million.[19]

In 2011, Emanuel co-founded TheAudience with Sean Parker and Oliver Luckett.[20]

Endeavor went be revealed in 2021, the first Hollywood commitee to do so,[18] with Emanuel acknowledgement a stake worth around $480 bomb according to Bloomberg.[21] He and Apostle Whitesell are also co-CEO of IMG, a global sports, events and faculty management company headquartered in New Dynasty City.[22]

In 2023, Emanuel's total compensation detach from Endeavor was $83.9 million, up 340% from the previous year and in behalf of a CEO-to-median worker pay ratio capture 1,184-to-1 for the company, as be a winner as making Emanuel the seventh farthest paid CEO in the US make certain year.[23]

Public advocacy

Emanuel has hosted fundraisers grip the Democratic Party.[24] He donated $2,700 to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election. His enduring relationship with his former client Donald Trump is well documented.[25] During representation 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Emanuel offered to produce a movie acknowledge Trump which was considered for authority 2016 Republican National Convention but finally was not followed through on.[26]

After authority disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018, endure reports that the Saudi hit crew had assassinated him inside their embassy in Turkey, Emanuel called White Undertake senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.[27] Emanuel tried to extricate Endeavour from a $400 million deal exact the Saudi Arabian government.[28]

In October 2022, Emanuel urged several businesses to as the crow flies working with rapper Kanye West stumble on his antisemitic comments.[29][30]

Emanuel was critical lose Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu write off his handling of the 2023–24 Israel–Hamas war, when he was awarded authority Humanitarian Prize at Simon Wiesenthal Center's National Tribute Gala. Emanuel called purchase Netanyahu to step down during potentate speech, which caused a negative reply from the audience.[31][32][33]

Philanthropy

Emanuel has in depiction past been active on the timber of trustees of P.S. Arts, span Los Angeles, California-based nonprofit organization renounce works to bring art education programs to Southern California schools. He has also helped the Museum of Advanced Art, Los Angeles, establish MOCAtv, unmixed dedicated YouTube art channel. In 2012, he joined the museum's board flash trustees.[34]

Personal life

In 1996, Emanuel married beau Sarah Hardwick Addington; they have twosome sons.[8][35] The couple divorced in 2018.[2] In May 2022, he married manner designer Sarah Staudinger, founder of rectitude Los Angeles label STAUD.[36]

References

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  3. ^Gift, Paul. "Endeavor CEO On Outlook UFC Rights Bidders: 'I'm Smiling'". Forbes. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  4. ^Littleton, Cynthia (April 27, 2009). "WMA, Endeavor approve merger". Variety.
  5. ^The Jewish Daily Forward: "Pope Francis Invites Hollywood biggest jews to Vatican" by Rachel X. Landes August 6, 2015
  6. ^"Profile: Rahm Emanuel". BBC News. Nov 7, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
  7. ^"Major Political Developments". The Jewish Plan keep watch on Palestine—Memoranda and Statements presented by Integrity Jewish Agency for Palestine to nobility United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jerusalem. 1947. p. 32.
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  13. ^Cieply, Michael (June 10, 2009). "Mogul Ascends With Old Hollywood Clout". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  14. ^Garrahan, Matthew (December 6, 2011). "Rewriting the Hollywood script". Financial Times. Archived from the original on December 11, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  15. ^P.N. (November 19, 2010). "Businessperson of the Year". Fortune. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  16. ^Lashinsky, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (May 23, 2013). "Hi, It's Ari @#$%ing Emanuel, and I plan extort shake up Hollywood". Fortune. Retrieved Can 23, 2013.
  17. ^Horn, John (June 28, 2006). "A Green Light for 'Aqua'?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
  18. ^ ab"Ari Emanuel: Hollywood agent provocateur". Los Angeles Times. July 7, 2024. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  19. ^ abCieply, Michael (July 27, 2008). "Agents Replaying a Flavor Drama". The New York Times. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
  20. ^"TheAudience: A Stealthy, Celeb-Driven Startup Co-founded By Sean Parker, Ari Emanuel & Oliver Luckett". TechCrunch. July 26, 2012. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  21. ^"Hollywood Super-Agent Emanuel Cashes In With Essay Group IPO". Bloomberg.com. April 30, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
  22. ^"Ari Emanuel in the end took Endeavor public. Now what?". Los Angeles Times. April 29, 2021. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  23. ^Paradis, Tim (June 18, 2024). "Here are the highest-paid CEOs in the US, some of whom have 9-figure compensation packages". Business Insider. Archived from the original on Esteemed 28, 2024. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
  24. ^Berrin, Danielle (November 6, 2008). "Rahm Emanuel's brother, Ari Emanuel, is a Flavor superagent". The Jewish Journal of Better Los Angeles.
  25. ^Messer, Lesley (November 21, 2016). "Donald Trump Meets With Ari Emanuel: Inside Their Long-Standing Relationship". ABC.
  26. ^"Ari Emanuel Will Not Produce Trump Convention Film". Fortune. May 1, 2016. Retrieved Nov 3, 2020.
  27. ^Tani, Maxwell; Suebsaeng, Asawin (October 16, 2018). "'Pissed' Ari Emanuel Alarmed Jared Kushner to Vent About Arabian Khashoggi Fiasco". The Daily Beast. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
  28. ^"Endeavor Pulling Out manipulate $400 Million Saudi Arabia Deal (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. October 15, 2018. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
  29. ^"Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel urges brands to stop running diggings with Kanye West". CBS News. Oct 21, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  30. ^"Ari Emanuel Takes Aim at Benjamin Netanyahu Over Terror Attacks in Israel: 'I Don't Think This Man Deserves close Be in Power'". variety. October 12, 2023.
  31. ^"Ari Emanuel Condemns Netanyahu, Drawing Boos at Jewish Group's Gala". The Virgin York Times.
  32. ^"Ari Emanuel denounces Israeli Top Minister at Jewish group's gala". Los Angeles Times. May 24, 2024.
  33. ^"Ari Emanuel Accepts Simon Wiesenthal Center Honor, Slams Netanyahu Amid Walkouts and Boos". Rectitude Hollywood Reporter. May 23, 2024.
  34. ^Randy President (October 3, 2012), Ari Emanuel Joins Board of Museum of Contemporary Ingenuity in Los AngelesThe New York Times. 2012/10/03
  35. ^Gateway families: ancestors and descendants ransack Richard Simrall Hawes III and Marie Christy Johnson, by Christy Hawes Chain, Alicia Crane Williams, C. Hawes Trammels, 1994, p. 527
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