Media Investor at Trillion-Dollar LA Firm Says Goodbye

Nikki Finke has linked to an old LA Weekly item about Gordon “Gordy” Crawford, a.k.a. “The Pope on Hope [Street],” on the occasion of his imminent retirement. The Capital Group VP is exiting the downtown LA firm tomorrow after 41 years, during which time the firm’s assets grew from $2 billion to $1.1 trillion.

Crawford nurtured close relationships with media moguls and his fingerprints were all over many of the biggest transactions involving the likes of Time Warner, News Corp, DirectTV and Disney.

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