Howard Bragman, celeb publicist, dies at 66 after leukemia battle
Howard Bragman, a beloved Hollywood publicist who specialised in disaster relations and whose shoppers have included Monica Lewinsky, Cameron Diaz, Ricki Lake, Sharon Osbourne and Chaz Bono, has died after a brief battle with leukemia. He was 66.
He died Saturday night time in Los Angeles, his household stated Sunday. Bragman was recognized with leukemia simply 10 days in the past and promptly hospitalized.
A local of Flint, Michigan, the place he stated he all the time felt like a martian as a “fats, Jewish, homosexual child,” Bragman obtained his begin in public relations in Chicago, working with shoppers like Anheuser-Busch. Finally he made his solution to Los Angeles and based his personal agency, Bragman Nyman Cafarelli (BNC), in 1989. He turned often called a go-to for serving to celebrities come out publicly, together with “Household Ties” star Meredith Baxter, nation singer Chely Wright, basketball gamers John Amaechi and Sheryl Swoopes and soccer participant Michael Sam.
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“Howard Bragman was an trade chief who masterfully used the facility of the press to create optimistic change and visibility for LGBTQ individuals,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis stated in a press release. “All through his lengthy profession, he labored with many LGBTQ notables to make sure their popping out tales have been handled with dignity and created influence for your entire group. His personal visibility as an out govt, paired with a trademark humor and daring method to public relations, made unforgettable marks.”
Following BNC’s acquisition, he based the agency Fifteen Minutes in 2005 and, later, LaBrea Media.
He wrote an recommendation guide known as “The place’s My Fifteen Minutes,” weaving in amusing anecdotes of a bygone Hollywood and relating that to the celeb, media and viewers panorama of right this moment. He suggested that “all press is just not good press” and whoever stated so is “an fool.”
Along with being an oft-quoted skilled on celeb crises, Bragman generally penned articles himself too, in publications from Playboy to the Los Angeles Instances, and even appeared on numerous actuality reveals, together with “The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” and as a visitor choose on the primary season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
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Bragman’s affect on the trade was wide-spanning. He was an adjunct professor of public relations on the College of Southern California, developed a media coaching guide for younger actors in Nickelodeon television reveals and movies, and media educated lots of of pros outdoors of Hollywood, from elected officers and attorneys to CEOs.
He was additionally a passionate activist for LGBTQ rights and Jewish causes.
In 2021, he donated $1 million to ascertain the Howard Bragman Coming Out Fund on the College of Michigan, his alma mater, on the fiftieth anniversary of the college’s Spectrum Middle, an LGBTQ help useful resource.
“I wish to guarantee that different individuals get that very same entry that I had; life-changing, life-saving entry,” he advised the college’s paper on the time. “I do not care how liberal the college is. I do not care how accepting and loving your mother and father are. I do not care how ‘woke’ the occasions are. Popping out is that this most private of journeys, and it is a difficult journey.”
Bragman is survived by his husband Mike Maimone, his brother Alan and nieces and nephews. They requested that in lieu of flowers, for mourners to contemplate donating to the Coming Out Fund established in his title.
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