Personal Life
Geffen has an estimated net worth of $5.5 billion, making him one of the richest people in the entertainment industry.
He is openly gay. In May 2007, Out magazine ranked him first in their list of the fifty "Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America."
He is the subject of Joni Mitchell's song "Free Man in Paris". Mitchell and Geffen were close friends, and in the early 1970s made a trip to Paris with Robbie and Dominique Robertson.
He can be heard on Barbra Streisand’s The Broadway Album, released in 1985. The track "Putting It Together" features Geffen, Sydney Pollack, and Ken Sylk portraying the voices of record company executives talking to Barbra. He resides in Malibu, California.
Geffen is the subject of several books, most recently The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood (2001) by Thomas R. King, who initially had Geffen's cooperation, but later did not. An earlier biography was The Rise and Rise of David Geffen (1997) by Stephen Singular. He is also a featured character in the books "Mailroom: Hollywood History From The Bottom Up" by David Rensen, "Mansion On The Hill" by Fred Goodman and "Hotel California" by Barney Hoskyns as well as several books about Michael Ovitz.
He was the subject of an American Masters PBS television documentary directed by Susan Lacy and entitled Inventing David Geffen which was first broadcast on 20 November 2012.
His older brother Mitchell Geffen was an attorney who attended UCLA Law School and later settled in Encino, California. Mitchell Geffen fathered two daughters, who are David's closest surviving relatives.
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