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Elliot Mintz (born February 16, 1945) is a press representative. His clients have included Bob Dylan [1], Don Johnson [2], Christie Brinkley, and Paris Hilton. His career in show business began in the late 1960s, when he worked in Pasadena, California for station KPPC. 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. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 419 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (452 × 646 pixel, file size: 53 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 419 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (452 × 646 pixel, file size: 53 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Donald Wayne Don Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor well known for his fame in film and television. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity and socialite. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... KPPC-FM was a Pasadena, California FM radio station best known during the period 1967–1971, when it was one of the leading underground radio stations in the United States, presenting a freeform mixture of experimental and historical music with countercultural ideas. ... The Firesign Theatre are a comedy troupe consisting of Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor. ... Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Eugene Hansen [1], who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko (ONO Yōko), born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese-American artist and musician. ...

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^[1]. 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. Yoko Ono chronology Some Time in New York City is John Lennons third post-Beatles album, and fifth with Yoko Ono, and was released in 1972. ... Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. ... The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884,[3] is an apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City. ... is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas) is the man who shot and killed musician John Lennon on December 8, 1980. ...

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. Westwood One, Inc. ... The Beatles Anthology is the name of a documentary series, a series of three albums and a book, all of which focus on the history of one of the worlds most popular rock band The Beatles. ... John Lennon Anthology is a box set of home demos, alternative studio outtakes and unreleased material recorded by John Lennon over the course of his solo career from Give Peace A Chance in 1969 up until the 1980 sessions for Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey. ...

Mintz appears in the two major film documentaries on Lennon, Imagine: John Lennon in 1988 and The US vs. John Lennon in 2006. The U.S. vs. ...

In May of 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. Ms. Hilton had told the judge that Mintz told her she was allowed to drive back and forth to work. ^[2] He has since been rehired by Ms. Hilton. [3]

External links

• Elliot Mintz Official Page.
• Travels of Elliot Mintz
• Another Damsel in Distress for Mintz
• Interview with Elliot Mintz
• "Walking Miss Hilton" (This a restricted article on NYTimes.com that requires a paid account to access.)

References

1. ^ http://www.laradio.com/wherem.htm
2. ^ http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/bizz-buzz/paris-hilton-gives-new-meaning-to-cell-phone.php