Elliot Mintz

Elliot Mintz (born February 16, 1945) is a press representative. His clients have included Bob Dylan and his family [http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/who/m/mintzelliot.html] , Don Johnson [http://community-2.webtv.net/cudarules/DJNewsTVSchedule/] , Christie Brinkley, John Lennon, and Paris Hilton. His career in show business began in the late 1960s, when he worked in Pasadena, California for station KPPC-FM. He worked among such radio icons as Lonny Schonfeld, Firesign Theatre and Dr. Demento, but his most famous encounter was his 1971 meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who invited Mintz into their exclusive inner circle.

Mintz had a six-station radio career in Los Angeles, spanning nine years beginning in 1966, including as a late-night talk jock on KABC Talk Radio 79 [ [http://www.laradio.com/wherem.htm ~Los Angeles Radio People, Where ARe They Now, m ] ] . Beginning in 1971, Mintz hosted a Kaiser Broadcast syndicated television interview show, featuring local bands and classic moments with artist as Cass Elliot, Ricky Nelson, Moe Howard and the father of radical George Jackson before the Black Panther leader's death. Mintz had been dismissed from one radio job after playing the Lennons’ controversial 1972 double album "Some Time in New York City" commercial free in its entirety. Mintz accompanied Lennon on much of his "Lost Weekend" separation from Ono in the mid-'70s, and joined the couple and their son Sean during their vacation in Japan. He was one of the first friends to make it to the The Dakota on December 9, 1980, hours after John Lennon was ambushed and murdered by a deranged fan the previous evening.

In the late 1980s, Yoko Ono tapped Mintz to host the highly successful, long-running Westwood One Radio series "The Lost Lennon Tapes", in which Mintz introduced interview clips and studio out-takes from Lennon’s career, several years before "The Beatles Anthology" and "The John Lennon Anthology" made such tracks available to the public.

Mintz appears in the two major film documentaries on Lennon,"" in 1988 and "The US vs. John Lennon" in 2006.

In May 2007, Paris Hilton fired Elliot Mintz after she earned a 45 day jail sentence for driving with a license that had been suspended due to an alcohol-related incident. Hilton had told the judge that Mintz told her she was allowed to drive back and forth to work. [ [http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/bizz-buzz/paris-hilton-gives-new-meaning-to-cell-phone.php Paris Hilton Gives New Meaning to Cell Phone - Film School Rejects ] ] He has since been rehired by Hilton. [http://www.tmz.com/2007/05/08/paris-and-elliot-mintz-back-in-business/]

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* [http://www.elliotmintz.com Elliot Mintz Official Page]
* [http://www.instantkarma.com/mintzmenu.html Interview with Elliot Mintz]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/fashion/27mintz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Walking Miss Hilton"]
* [http://www.vanityfare.co.uk/images/TRANQ%20HEADSHOP%20KBSC52.gifElliot Mintz Headshop]