OBITUARY: Brooklyn native Jerry Weintraub, longtime Hollywood producer, dies at 77
Brooklyn native Jerry Weintraub, the dynamic producer and manager who pushed the career of John Denver and produced such hit movies as “Nashville” and “Ocean’s Eleven,” has died. He was 77.
Representatives for Weintraub said he died Monday of cardiac arrest in Santa Barbara, California.
Weintraub rose from talent agency mail room employee to top concert promoter — working with the likes of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra — and shaping Denver’s career before tackling the movie business starting in the 1970s.