Donald Jay Deutsch was born on November 22,1957 and is an American branding and marketing professional, television personality, and former chairman of advertising firm Deutsch Inc He joined his father's advertising firm, David Deutsch Associates, in 1983.
18 Facts About Donny Deutsch
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Donny Deutsch hosted the MSNBC talk show Saturday Night Politics with Donny Deutsch.
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Donny Deutsch previously hosted the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.
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Donny Deutsch was born in Hollis Hills, a neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City.
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Donny Deutsch attended the Martin Van Buren High School, located in the nearby Queens Village neighborhood; Deutsch later attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia.
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Donny Deutsch won the $5,000 jackpot celebrity match with Betty White.
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Donny Deutsch joined his father's advertising firm, David Deutsch Associates, in 1983.
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In 1989, David Deutsch handed full control of the agency to Donny Deutsch, who became chairman.
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Donny Deutsch renamed the agency Donny Deutsch Inc and later sold it to the Interpublic Group of Companies in 2000 for $265 million.
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Donny Deutsch was an anchor on MSNBC in 2010, but was removed from the position as a result of a segment where he seemed to criticize his co-worker Keith Olbermann.
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Donny Deutsch appeared as a judge on television on NBC's reality-television series The Apprentice.
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Donny Deutsch appears regularly on the Today Show, in a segment called "The Professionals".
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In 2016, Donny Deutsch was co-hosting Bloomberg Television's With All Due Respect with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
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In 2014, Donny Deutsch was ordered to pay a real estate broker a four percent commission for the 2010 sale of his $30 million home in the Hamptons area of New York.
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Donny Deutsch was ordered by the New York Supreme Court to pay $1.2 million to Sotheby's for his breach of contract with broker Edward Petrie.
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Donny Deutsch has been married and divorced twice; he has three daughters.
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Donny Deutsch purchased a five-story property in New York City for $21 million and reportedly spent another $20 million on renovations in 2006.
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On February 25,2013, on Piers Morgan Tonight, Donny Deutsch declared that he is a member of the Democratic Party; he has described himself as a feminist.