Howard Bragman, one of Hollywood’s top crisis management experts whose clients included Sharon Osbourne, Monica Lewinsky, Stevie Wonder, Chaz Bono and many more, died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night after a private battle with acute monocytic leukemia. He was 66, just days short of his 67th birthday.
Bragman graduated from the University of Michigan and immediately pursued a career in public relations. He was vice president of Burson-Marsteller’s Chicago and Los Angeles offices and then co-founded Bragman Nyman Cafarelli in 1989. This company was acquired by Interpublic Group in 2001, and Bragman founded Fifteen Minutes, a media and PR agency, established. relationship agency. He most recently founded LaBrea Media in 2018.
A longtime LGBTQ+ activist and community supporter, he has served as a coming-out advisor to several celebrities, including actress Meredith Baxter, basketball player Sheyl Swoopes, country musician Chely Wright, and NFL player Michael Sam.
Bragman was an associate professor of public relations at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication from 1998 to 2003 and the author of the book Where’s my fifteen minutes?: Give your business, cause or yourself the recognition they deservewhich was released in 2008 by Penguin.
Source: Deadline
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