Shep Gordon

Shep E Gordon is an American talent manager Hollywood film agent and producer Gordon is featured in a 2013 documentary Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon which was directed by Mike Myers He obtained his BA in 1968 from the State University of New York at Buffalo UB in sociology He then moved to Los Angeles California He first gained connections in Hollywood by meeting Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin and Alice Cooper in 1968 He quickly became Coopers agent Much of Coopers stage act and the bands overall macabre persona was influenced directly by Gordon who created many imaginative and wild events to get Cooper PR in the papers including throwing a live chicken on stage Gordon subsequently later represented many other celebrities such as Anne Murray Blondie Teddy Pendergrass and Luther Vandross Gordon has worked on numerous film productions typically as a producer These include The Duellists and Kiss of the Spider Woman He then created one of the first independent film production companies in the US Alive Films His work was instrumental in bringing the modern wave of celebrity chefs into existence He represented many of the top chefs of the world at a time when they were not known in popular culture and when the Food Network was first created he brought many of them to the same including Emeril Lagasse helping to make them all the household names they are now He owns multiple restaurants Source Wikipedia