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	AskMen.com - Edgar Bronfman Jr. pics
		Although Bronfman is known for his acute business sense as present CEO of Seagram Company Ltd., he has always had an appreciation and love of the arts, as is seen in Seagram's further acquisitions.
		As for Bronfman's romantic life, he can also add father to his list of daytime duties: he has three children from a previous marriage to Sherri Brewer (who he married in the 1970s), and currently lives in New York with his wife Clarissa Allcock (who he married in 1994), and their children.
		Bronfman is known for his charitable work in several Jewish causes, and his involvement in Israel and the American Jewish communities.
	www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/32c_edgar_bronfman.html (0 words)

	Edgar Bronfman Jr at Hollywood.com
		As the privileged scion of the billionaire Bronfmans and one of the three most prominent "Our Crowd" Jewish-American families on his mother's side, Edgar Bronfman Jr had to struggle to prove he was more than a show business dilettante.
		Bronfman returned to the US in 1975 when his older brother, Samuel, was kidnapped and held for ransom for nine days.
		wife:Clarissa Alcock Bronfman (born in Venezuela; married in 1993)
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Edgar_Bronfman_Jr/1122083 (1038 words)

	Edgar Bronfman
		Edgar Miles Bronfman was born on June 20, 1929, in Montreal, Canada.
		In 1981, Bronfman was elected president of the WJC, the federation of Jewish communities outside Israel.
		Edgar Bronfman is also a philantrophist who has given large amounts of money to Jewish causes.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Edgar_Bronfman.html (203 words)

	Edgar Bronfman, Sr. at AllExperts
		Edgar Miles Bronfman (born June 20, 1929) is a Jewish-Canadian businessman and a member of the Bronfman dynasty, and the father of Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
		Edgar is the son of Samuel and Saidye Bronfman; his siblings are the late Minda de Gunzburg, architecture maven Phyllis, and Charles.
		Bronfman's marriage to Lady Townsend was annulled on November 21, 1974 (the marriage lasted less than a year), and was followed by a high-profile messy divorce proceeding.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ed/edgar_bronfman,_sr..htm (535 words)

	IAC/InterActiveCorp - Board of Directors Profiles - Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
		Bronfman was appointed Executive Vice Chairman of Vivendi Universal, S.A. in December 2000.
		Bronfman resigned from his position as an executive officer and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vivendi Universal, S.A. in March 2002 and December 2003, respectively.
		Bronfman is currently a member of the board of directors of Fandango and is a member of the Board of New York University Medical Center and the Board of Governors of The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.iac.com /index/management/board_of_directors/bio_bod_ebronfman.htm (203 words)

	EDGAR BRONFMAN'S DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE INTERNET - HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bronfman and the entertainment industry will not rest until they eliminate the very essence of what they see as the largest threat facing their industry: anonymous file sharing.
		If Bronfman's speech is any indication, open and anonymous file-sharing - regardless of the ownership status of the files shared - is a threat so ominous, so life threatening that he and the industry will stop at nothing to wipe out an entire technology and theory of distributed computing.
		Bronfman is taking an offensive swipe at one of the basic premises of the Internet - in fact, he is sucker punching the very architecture of the Internet itself.
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /conspiracy/reststory/bronfmaninternet.html (974 words)

	Jerusalem, Blood and Dynasty: A Look at Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
		Edgar Bronfman, Sr., is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seagram Co., Ltd., the giant international distillery.
		He is the reigning potentate of Canada's powerful Bronfman Dynasty, a bloodline and family with a reputed history of organized crime activity.
		"Edgar Bronfman, Sr., would have to be considered a candidate for the select list of unelected rulers, those anonymous few who determine America's debts and control her destiny." These are the words of Dr. Dennis Cuddy and Robert Goldsborough, in their authoritative book, The Network of Power.
	www.texemarrs.com /031997/jeru.htm (0 words)

	Investor Group Led by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Bain Capital and Providence Equity Partners to ...
		Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who is CEO of Lexa Partners and will be the most senior executive of the new company, brings extensive experience and a proven track record in the entertainment industry.
		Bronfman is a member of the boards of USA Interactive; Equitant, Inc., a leader in order-to-cash outsourcing; New York University Medical Center; and the Board of Governors of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Bronfman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Seagram Company Ltd. During his tenure as CEO of Seagram, he consummated $85 billion in transactions and transformed the company into one of the world's leading media and communications companies.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,670127,00.html (2684 words)

	Edgar Bronfman And The Elevation Of Stephen Herbits
		Edgar Bronfman And The Elevation Of Stephen Herbits
		Bronfman, from his perch at the top of the World Jewish Congress, is about to make yet another statement corrosive of the foundations of our faith by engineering the choice of a leading homosexual activist as the secretary general — the chief operating officer — of one of the more venerable and visible Jewish organizations.
		Bronfman was able to have removed from office two longtime senior officials — one who had issued the alarum and another considered that individual's close ally within the group.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/19074/Edgar_Bronfman_And_The_Elevation_Of_Stephen_Herbits.html (413 words)

	Bronfman - King of the Jews - HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edgar Bronfman Sr.--in his role of Aged Wisdom--has just published Good Spirits: The Making of a Businessman, a memoir brimming with self-congratulatory tales of his business acumen and generosity.
		Sam Bronfman, the family patriarch and Edgar Sr.'s father, was an utterly implacable businessman, the Atilla of liquor.
		Edgar Jr.'s failing is not that he's too romantic about the movies but that he's too rational about them.
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /conspiracy/reststory/bronfmanking.html (1247 words)

	MoMA \| press \| Releases \| 1999 \| Edgar M. Bronfman Receives the Third Annual David Rockefeller Award from The Museum of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		EDGAR M. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Ronald S. Lauder, President Agnes Gund, and Director Glenn D. Lowry of The Museum of Modern Art were on hand today to present Edgar M. Bronfman with the 1999 David Rockefeller Award for enlightened generosity and effective advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors.
		Bronfman is the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets, President of the World Jewish Congress, and President of the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
		Bronfman was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur by the government of France, and he serves as a Director of the American Society for Technion and of the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute.
	www.moma.org /about_moma/press/1999/bronfman_1_1_99.htm (556 words)

	Bronfman Likes Telcos in iPod Race
		Bronfman, chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, suggested it wouldn't be long before operators such as Vodafone (VOD:NYSE - news - research) become major distributors of music via third-generation networks and cell phones with memory comparable to that of current portable music players.
		Bronfman, formerly vice chairman of Vivendi Universal (V:NYSE - news - research), earlier this year led a private investment group's buyout of Time Warner's (TWX:NYSE - news - research) WMG, and is reportedly planning a public offering of stock in the coming months.
		Bronfman was a big backer of onetime Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier's attempt to create a worldwide media conglomerate from a French utilities company.
	www.thestreet.com /tech/georgemannes/10197649.html (372 words)

	Cigar Aficionado \| People Profile \| Edgar Bronfman Jr.
		On Edgar Jr.'s urging, this proud family traded in an heirloom that was the source of one of the world's great fortunes in exchange for a piece of a New Economy dream, and then watched in helpless horror as it all went terribly wrong.
		Edgar Jr., 47, had been handed the overwhelming responsibility of safeguarding the family's immense fortune for future generations and was determined to prove he was more than up to the task.
		Edgar Sr., always more direct and blunt than his brother, described Messier as "paranoid," adding pointedly: "Even paranoids have enemies." For his part, Messier is still blaming just about everyone but himself for his downfall, as he settles into a new, much lower-profile life as a New Yorkñbased investment banker and media investor.
	www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,176,00.html (5474 words)

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		Bronfman's marriage to his second wife, Lady Carolyn Townsend, in 1973 lasted less than a year and was followed by a high-profile messy divorce proceeding.
		Bronfman, 75, is liquidating assets of the company, Georgetown Farm, based in Free Union, Va. The industry, with slim profit margins, "required that we become very large or remain a small boutique, and we weren't either; we were in-between," says Mr.
		The organization previously conducted an audit of the account, but a Jerusalem-based WJC leader, Isi Leibler, was stripped of most of his positions in the organization in September after persistently calling for a new audit of the $1.2 million account, which was moved from a Geneva bank through London to New York last year.
	www.lycos.com /info/edgar-bronfman-sr--edgar-bronfman-sr.html (408 words)

	Accretive - Team - Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
		Bronfman also serves as a partner at Accretive LLC and as Co-Chairman of AandG Group Limited, the parent of Asprey and Garrard.
		Bronfman was appointed Executive Vice Chairman of Vivendi Universal in December 2000.
		Bronfman serves on the boards of InterActiveCorp; Fandango; Accretive Commerce; New York University Medical Center; and the Board of Governors of The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.accretivetechnology.com /team/e-bronfman (359 words)

	Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
		Bronfman also serves as general partner at Accretive Technology Partners, LLC, a venture capital firm specializing in the business process outsourcing area. Before joining Warner Music Group, Mr.
		Bronfman was appointed Executive Vice Chairman of Vivendi Universal in December 2000. He resigned from his position as an officer and executive of Vivendi Universal on March 31, 2002, and resigned as Vice Chairman of Vivendi Universal's Board of Directors on December 2, 2003.
		Bronfman served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Seagram. Between 1982 and 1989, he held a series of senior executive positions for The Seagram Company Ltd. in the U.S. and in Europe.
	www.wmg.com /about/biography/?id=contact200001 (0 words)

	Edgar Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		A certain aura of creeping decay does surround the Bronfmans, and it is tempting to view them as a study in dynastic decline.
		Sam Bronfman, the family patriarch and Edgar Sr.'s father, was an utterly implacable businessman, the Atilla of liquor.
		Edgar Jr.'s failing is not that he's too romantic about the movies but that he's too rational about them.
	www.slate.com /id/1862 (0 words)

	FOXNews.com - Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Vivendi Universal Vice Chmn - Neil Cavuto \| Your World
		EDGAR BRONFMAN JR., VIVENDI UNIVERSAL VICE CHMN.: Well, I really don’t look at it that way, I mean, obviously the deal with NBC (search) I think is going to go through.
		BRONFMAN: I think it has been the case so far and I think it would continue to be the case as conglomerates got larger.
		BRONFMAN: My days at Vivendi were gone when I resigned from Vivendi, that was 18 months ago and became only a board member.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,96470,00.html (0 words)

	Academy for Jewish Religion > Teachings > The Pluralism Diaries
		For Bronfman, it was the product of years of discomfort with available options in the synagogue world and of some years of experimentation toward creating an alternative.
		It is impossible to judge whether the music composed for Bronfman is really any different in kind or in quality than the tons of new music that has been and continues to be composed for Jewish liturgical use.
		Bronfman's basic critique of establishment worship is that it is boring.
	www.ajrsem.org /blog (1426 words)

	Edgar Bronfman's Curious 'Clarification'
		Bronfman thought about the integrity of the Jewish bloodline is of no moment despite his billions and that, in any event, his views are just a restatement of the Reform view that Judaism is non-normative and whatever one wants it to be.
		Bronfman to the LJC apologizing for and clarifying his remarks....
		Bronfman's cause and accepting his letter as being somehow significant - when it plainly changed nothing and hardly was worth mentioning - underscores our main concern.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/19012/Edgar_Bronfman's_Curious_'Clarification'.html (523 words)

	Edgar Bronfman, Jr. at AllExperts
		Although the headquarters of the family's Seagram Company was located in Montreal, Quebec, Bronfman's father moved the family to New York City shortly after Edgar Jr.'s birth to run the American arm of the business.
		Bronfman proceeded to a brief career in entertainment in the 1970s as a film and Broadway producer.
		Bronfman's son, who is known as Benjamin Brewer, is the guitar player and vocalist for the New York-based alternative rock band The Exit.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ed/edgar_bronfman,_jr..htm (1027 words)

	04/15/96 EDGAR IN HOLLYWOOD
		The Bronfman they'd more likely identify with was Samuel, the cutthroat, hot-tempered patriarch of the family--not Edgar Jr., a man described as "soulful" by one of his own executives, and one who turned to business only after nine desultory years trying his hand at the arts and producing two films that bombed.
		Bronfman seems to know that inevitably he'll be compared with the older men who run competitive companies, and to his own grandfather, father, and uncle, who built and expanded Seagram's fortunes.
		After Bronfman gave his keynote speech, Meidel led the Seagram CEO and Meyer on a tour of the exhibit booths, where talk shows and game shows and TV reruns are hawked to buyers from around the world.
	www.csun.edu /~hfact004/moguls.html (4303 words)

	Liquor, Lies, and Edgar Bronfman
		Bronfman's Seagrams produces, markets, and distributes more than 226 brands of distilled spirits, more than 180 brands of wines, champagnes, ports and sherries, and more than 48 brands of coolers, beers, mixers and other low-alcohol adult beverages.
		Edgar Bronfman's cheap ploy of crying "anti-Semitism!" and "terrorism!" is merely a ruse to keep blended whiskey pouring into the Black community and hard-earned cash flowing out.
		"Edgar Bronfman is president and CEO of Seagram's, which is responsible for distributing over 65% of the toxic malt liquor in our communities.
	www.blacksandjews.com /bronfman.html (1780 words)

	Amazon.com: Good Spirits: Books: Edgar M. Bronfman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram by Nicholas Faith
		Bronfman speaks openly and candidly of his childhood, which he describes as an "endurance test" in which he was groomed by an autocratic father in preparation for inheriting a great business empire.
		Edgar speaks openly of his long marriage record (he has been married four times), and the story of his son's kidnapping is particularly touching.
	www.amazon.com /Good-Spirits-Edgar-M-Bronfman/dp/0399143742 (821 words)

	TIME.com: A Fallen Mogul Stirs -- Jun. 2, 2003 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The grandson of Seagram founder and former bootlegger Samuel Bronfman, Edgar Jr.
		When Bronfman sold Seagram to Vivendi for shares of the French utility and telecommunications company's stock, he wasn't the only media exec seduced by an ill-considered merger; the wedding of Time Warner (parent of TIME) to AOL comes to mind.
		Bronfman is said to be confident of snagging private-equity backers by the time Vivendi is expected to ask for bids, around mid-to late June.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030602-454473,00.html (960 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Edgar M. Bronfman
		Bronfman was one of ten distinguished Americans presented with the medal, the highest US civilian honor, by President Bill Clinton at a White House ceremony.
		Bronfman's efforts on behalf of Am Yisrael and his passion for provoking a global renaissance of Jewish life have been recognized by the President and the American people.
		Edgar Bronfman, head of the World Jewish Congress, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his successful extortion campaign against Switzerland -- August 11, 1999.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /EdgarBronfman.htm (205 words)

	The Samuel Bronfman Foundation
		Bronfman serves as Chairman of the International Board of Governors of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, a worldwide organization serving Jewish college students on their campuses.
		Bronfman also serves as President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations whose primary goal is to preserve and foster the worldwide unity of the Jewish people.
		Bronfman is a member of the Hillel International Board of Governors and Vice-Chair of the Hillel Board of Directors, overseeing the international expansion of the organization.
	www.thesbf.org /people.htm (991 words)

	idaho mountain express : Edgar Bronfman discusses restitution : dec 26, 2001 - jan 1, 2002
		Bronfman’s talk is being presented by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
		Bronfman is former chief executive officer of Distillers Corporation—Seagrams Ltd.¾ and past chairman of The Seagram Company Ltd. He has been a leader in the international effort to restore property to Jewish people that was confiscated by the Nazis during WWII.
		In 1999, Bronfman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor available to a United States citizen.
	www.mtexpress.com /2001/01-12-26/01-12-26bronfman.htm (309 words)

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