![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Producer, Co-producer, Executive Producer Born: June 2, 1945 in Van Nuys, CA Biography:A hard-case kid who spent his formative years in and out of reform school, Peters settled down at 14 to go into his mother's line of work as a haircutter in a beauty shop. Armed with an instinctive genius for self-promotion, he amassed a huge celebrity clientele at his trendy Jon Peters Salon on Rodeo Drive, raking in millions by merchandising the salon's ancillary cosmetic products. Along the way, Peters made hundreds of valuable showbiz contacts, and married one of his best customers, actress "Leslie Ann Warren". Privy to confidences that the Rich and Famous only reveal to their hairdressers, Peters was fairly hip to the ways and means of Hollywood by the time he fell in love with "Barbra Streisand" in 1974 (he divorced "Warren" a year later). Streisand trusted Peters enough to put her entire career in his talented hands. He produced her 1976 remake of "Star is Born", which earned the derision of... Full Biography
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