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- NAME: David Geffen
- OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
- BIRTH DATE: February 21, 1943 (Age: 70)
- EDUCATION: University of Texas at Austin
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Brooklyn, New York
- ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces
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David Geffen is an ambitious, energetic music and movie executive who established a vast Hollywood-based empire, featuring Geffen Records and DreamWorks.
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Play NowDavid Geffen. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 11:49, May 22, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/david-geffen-9542656.
David Geffen. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/david-geffen-9542656 [Accessed 22 May 2013].
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David Geffen. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/david-geffen-9542656. Accessed May 22, 2013.
"Before you talk to people in music or entertainment or video games, or even gun control," he said, "you need to talk to psychiatrists."
Geffen's personal worth has been estimated at well over $1 billion. He donates much of his annual salary to the David Geffen Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to his favorite causes. These include AIDS research, a crusade he has backed avidly since publicly announcing his homosexuality in the early 1980s. Beyond making financial contributions,
Geffen has lobbied Washington tirelessly on behalf of funding AIDS research and gay rights. In 1993, he took out full-page newspaper ads protesting President Clinton's policy on gays in the military. Yet Geffen continues to support Democratic politicians, hosting a 1999 Hollywood bash that raised about $1.5 million for Democratic congressional candidates.
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