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Freddie Mercury was seated behind billionaire record producer David Geffen on a flight when Geffen turned around with his cheque book and said "I want you to sing on my label, just fill in the amount yourself!". Freddie refused.

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David Geffen got his first job in Hollywood by lying about graduating from UCLA. When UCLA sent a letter saying he hadn't graduated, he was able to intercept it because he worked in the mail-room. Today, he is an executive worth an estimated $6 billion dollars.

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1. David Geffen worked in WMA's mailroom prior to becoming a talent agent at WMA and intercepted a letter from UCLA which stated that he had not graduated from UCLA. He needed to have graduated to so he modified the letter to show that he had attended and graduated, submitted it and got the job

2. The "SKG" in the DreamWorks logo are the last name initials of the founders: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, & David Geffen

3. David Geffen, a junior college dropout, had been hired at the William Morris Agency in 1964 by claiming to be a UCLA graduate. He came in to work in the mail-room early for six months to make sure to intercept the letter from the UCLA registrar exposing his fraud, and forged a better one.

4. David Geffen (Geffen Records, Dreamworks, DCG Records) around 2013 was said to have owned the most valuable private art collection in the world, estimated its worth at $1.1B at the time. Since then he has sold nearly half that value from just 2 paints for $500 million in 2016.

5. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is named after David Geffen, a recorder producer who forged a document from UCLA saying he had graduated from there in order to get his first job in a mailroom

6. Michael Jackson paid for a voodoo ritual that included taking a bloodbath and the killing of 42 cows, with the aim of killing Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

7. After the critical & commercial failures of Neil Young's 1982 electro-rock album 'Trans' and his '83 rockabilly album 'Everybody's Rockin', David Geffen sued him for $3.3 million, on the grounds that the albums were "not commercial" and "musically uncharacteristic of [his] previous recordings."

8. Prior to Nirvana's legendary unplugged performance, Kurt Cobain asked David Geffen, the head of Geffen Records, to buy him Lead Belly's guitar for $500,000. David Geffen said he wouldn't do it.

9. After the release of Everybody's Rockin' (1983) and Trans (1982) had drawn the ire of label head David Geffen for its lack of commercial appeal, Geffen Records sued Neil Young for making music "unrepresentative" of himself.