Donny Deutsch Biography

Donny Deutsch
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Donald Deutsch (born November 22, 1957) is an American CNBC commentator and former American advertising executive and former host of the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.

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Early life

Deutsch was born in Hollis Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. He attended P.S. 188, Martin Van Buren High School, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., an advertising agency company founded by his father that is owned by Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for $265 million.

In 2005, Harper Collins published Deutsch's business motivation book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt, written with co-author Peter Knobler.

Deutsch was the host of the CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch which was put on hiatus on December 4, 2008.

Personal life

Deutsch resides in New York City at Trump Park Avenue.1 He is divorced from Stacy Josloff, whom he married in 2000. Deutsch's former girlfriend, Amanda Zacharia, gave birth to their daughter, Daisy, in 2007 after they had already broken up.2

Deutsch, who is renovating a $21 million townhouse at 6 East 78th Street that he purchased in 2006, also bought a 3.3-acre estate on East Hampton's Further Lane for $29 million.

Notes

  1. ^ Reported in the December 2006 issue of Haute Living
  2. ^ http://www.nypost.com/seven/12112008/gossip/pagesix/tv_sage_caught_in_illicit_kiss_143571.htm

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