Mervyn L. Adelson
Mervyn L. Adelson is a retired American Television producer, known for hits such as The Waltons, Dallas, and Knots Landing.[1] During the 1990s Adelson was reportedly close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and acted as a go-between between the Israeli Prime Minister and US President Bill Clinton.[1]
Adelson was, together with Marvin Josephson, international co-chairman of Israel’s Fiftieth-Anniversary Committee. According to Josephson he and Adelson were appointed to the position by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. The pair were accused by the Jerusalem Post of corruption in relation to the anniversary celebrations. [2]
His ex-wife is American broadcast journalist, author and television personality Barbara Walters.[1]
In 1989 he became a Time Warner vice-chairman. Once worth $300 million, he lost his fortune in the wake of the merger of AOL and Time Warner. [1] In 2013 he admitted to having had ties to the Las Vegas Mafia - connections he had denied when allegations were first made in Penthouse magazine in 1975.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bryan Burrough, 'Remembrance of Wings Past', Vanity Fair, 12 February 2013, accessed 5 March 2015
- ↑ Craig Horowitz, 'America’s Jews Israel’s Lost Tribe?', New York Magazine, 27 April 1998, accessed 5 March 2015
- ↑ Staff, 'Former TV Macher Merv Adelson Talks About Financial Ruin and His Las Vegas–Mob Ties', Vanity Fair, 31 January 2013, accessed 5 March 2015
