David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist. Geffen created or cocreated Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and DreamWorks SKG in 1994. His donations to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and other educational and research donations have widened his fame beyond the entertainment industry.
David Lawrence Geffen was born in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham Geffen and Basya Volovskaya . Geffens mother owned a clothing store in Borough Park called Chic Corsets by Geffen. Both of his parents were Jewish immigrants who met in Britishmandated Palestine and then moved to the United States. Geffen graduated from Brooklyns New Utrecht High School in 1960 with a 66 percent average. He attended the University of Texas at Austin for a semester, and then Brooklyn College, before again dropping out. He then moved to Los Angeles, California to find his way in the entertainment business. He attended Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, but soon left. Geffen attributed his challenges in school to dyslexia.
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