11 Facts About Alan Abel

Alan Irwin Abel was an American hoaxer, writer, and mockumentary filmmaker famous for several hoaxes that became media circuses.

Alan Abel graduated from the Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in education.

Alan Abel himself appeared on The Mike Douglas Show to discuss the SINA mission.

Alan Abel orchestrated protests, such as picketing the White House in 1963 to demand Jackie Kennedy's horses wear pants.

Alan Abel invented a fictional housewife named Yetta Bronstein who ran as a write-in candidate for president of the United States in both 1964 and 1968.

In 1980, Alan Abel staged his own death from a heart attack near the Sundance Ski Lodge.

In 1997, Alan Abel launched CGS Productions to promote gift-wrapped pint jars of Jenny McCarthy's urine.

Alan Abel once ran for Congress on a platform that included paying congressmen based on commission; selling ambassadorships to the highest bidder; installing a lie detector in the White House and truth serum in the Senate drinking fountain; requiring all doctors to publish their medical-school grade point average in the telephone book after their names; and removing Wednesday to establish a four-day workweek.

In 1999, Alan Abel appeared in the documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed, in which he claimed to be the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest penis.

Alan Abel proposed heavy taxes on the obese in order to balance the federal budget, and was described in Esquire as a reclusive and surprisingly heavy Texas multi-millionaire who earned his wealth by working his way up the New York City hot dog stand ladder, moving to Texas, and investing his savings into McDonald's stock.

Alan Abel died on September 14,2018, at his home in Southbury, Connecticut, from complications of cancer and heart failure; he was 94.