Simon Astaire

Simon Astaire is an author, agent and media advisor. His first novel, PRIVATE PRIVILEGE, is to be published for Fall 2008 by Quartet Books. The story is a rites of passage through the eyes of a public school boy.

Astaire was recruited by the talent agency International Creative Management (ICM), where he became the youngest agent yet to be employed by the firm. During his ten-year career as head of young artists (clients included Oscar Winner Rachel Weisz) and international signings at ICM, Simon established a thriving music department.

In 1997 he became Chief Executive of Protocol Multimedia with diverse media divisions that included personal representation, product and celebrity endorsement and PR, working with companies such as Bvlgari, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Alfred Dunhill and Saatchi & Saatchi. Charlize Theron was contracted to Bvlgari as Lady Helen Taylor was to Armani. Astaire negotiated anunprecedented deal between writer Fay Weldon and Bvlgari; she was commissioned to write a novel 'The Bvlgari Connection' in what was the first commission of its kind.

Among Astaire's clients are members of the Hollywood establishment and the British Royal Family, including Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Lady Gabriella Windsor, and Lord Frederick Windsor. He is regularly quoted on their behalf in the national press.

Astaire appears as a pundit regularly on CNN, Sky News, Five and other networks commenting upon all key media and celebrity stories.

He is a trustee of the MTV Foundation, a charitable arm to MTV Networks.

Born June 3rd, 1961 in St. Mary's Paddington in London to stockbroker Edgar Astaire and interior designer Lesley Jacklin. He has two brothers. He was educated at Wellesley House in Kent and Harrow School. Astaire's son, Milo Astaire, was born June 1993. Milo's mother is model Saffron Aldridge. His uncle is the sport and property entrepreneur Jarvis Astaire. Astaire has lived much of his working life in London and Los Angeles.

[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1133389,00.html "While sophisticated in many of the ways of the world, I don’t think that he's ever been east of Sloane Square."] -
Sting about Simon Astaire.