Jamie Gold's Status as Hollywood Agent

[PairTheBoard]

I'm suprised after the pounding Gold has taken on this Forum regarding his Hollywood Agent claims, there has been no mention of this recent Card Player Article which apparently provides evidence supporting Gold. Can Gold really get a fair shake on 2+2?

CardPlayer Article on Gold's Agent Status

From the article:

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Numerous rumors about Jamie Gold have circulated since he began his meteoric run to win the World Series of Poker main event and a $12 million first-place cash. Gold’s past as a celebrity agent was questioned on many online sites and by the gaggle of media attending the WSOP.


Despite continued scrutiny and criticism from media outlets, Gold repeatedly refused to dignify the negative publicity surrounding him.

Gold is, however, receiving support from several people in the Hollywood including a former client’s current agent. James Gandolfini, known for his role as Tony Soprano on HBO’s hit series The Sopranos, has been one of the bigger names mentioned on Gold’s former client roster, but many people questioned the validity of Gold’s claims about management until recently.

In a copy of a letter recently obtained by Card Player, Gandolfini’s current agent, Mark Armstrong, a former Gold colleague at HWA and then Gold Bouchard management, defended his former associate. “Jamie did indeed represent as an agent or manager James Gandolfini (who I currently represent), Lucy Liu, Felicity Huffman, and Jimmy Fallon, who he helped bring to Los Angeles from Albany to get his start. Any inference otherwise is incorrect,” Armstrong wrote.

Gold’s history as an agent has also been documented in several Variety.com postings, including one from July 23, 1997, that verified Gold’s signing of former New Kid On the Block-turned-actor Donnie Walhberg.


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[maryfield48]

The article contributes little, IMO. From my limited knowledge, there is a great deal of difference between manager and agent in this context, so for the article to say that Gold represented these people "as manager or agent" does not add much.

And this line, "Despite continued scrutiny and criticism from media outlets, Gold repeatedly refused to dignify the negative publicity surrounding him" is entirely subjective and if anything only implies a pro-Gold bias on the part of the reporter. No worse than the anti-Gold bias displayed in some of the criticisms, except that posting on an internet forum should not be subject to the same standards as reporting for CardPlayer.

It is hardly newsworthy that Gold may have indulged in hyperbole in promoting himself on his website. Some of the criticisms of him on that score were overblown, to be sure. But I think more telling will be the resolution of the disposition of the prize money.