Does Ari Emanuel Like Ari Gold?
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Ariel Emanuel, Endeavor CEO and founder, was the basis for the character Ari Gold, on the HBO Show "Entourage." He said the show and character definitely opened some doors for him. He appears on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." This was recorded Aug. 12 in New York City.
So Ari Emanuel is a well-known person in the entertainment world, but there was another
figure named Ari Gold, who was a fictional character that many people thought was named
after you. Did you like that? Did you not like that? And what is it like when you're
more famous than your clients? Well, here's what I would say. At the time of the show,
and Mark Wahlberg is a client of mine, and I helped put that show together. I didn't like it
at the beginning because it depicted me. There were some things that were for sure not true,
and then there was something that I hated seeing that weren't true. I'm not that same person
anymore. But later on, especially after COVID, a lot of people kept on seeing it. It for sure
opened a lot of doors. And at the time, at the end, my brother was in the White House,
the show was on the air. I mean, I got a lot of, you know, people would pick up my phone.
Is there anybody today that won't return your phone calls? I assume there's nobody in the world.
I get a lot of people on the phone when I'm