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In 1970, Michael James Brody Jr. announced he would give away his fortune to anyone who asked. The letters he received are a time capsule of the setting of the Age of Aquarius.
That person was Michael James Brody Jr., an eccentric millionaire heir to a U.S. margarine fortune who made international headlines 52 years ago when he promised to give away his money to ordinary ...
Michael James Brody Jr.’s legacy is not widely known today, in part because it’s so tough to parse. In 1970, the shaggy-haired 21-year-old heir to the Jelke oleomargarine fortune publicly ...
In 1970, Michael James Brody Jr., the 21-year-old heir to the Jelke Margarine fortune, went on television to announce that he would give away $25 million to anybody who asked him for money.
In the documentary “Dear Mr. Brody,” Michael James Brody, Jr, pictured with his wife Renee, received thousands of unanswered letters. Photo by Sarah Wilson.
Dear Mr. Brody documents the story of Michael Brody, Jr., the hippie millionaire who gave his fortune away in the name of peace. The documentary discusses his instant celebrity and how he became ...
Chances are, the name Michael Brody Jr. wouldn’t ring a bell for most people, but for a momentous couple of weeks back in 1970, the peace-and-love-touting 21-year-old from Scarsdale, N.Y ...
EXCLUSIVE: Producers Edward R. Pressman and Shep Gordon have partnered with Tower director Keith Maitland for a documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 ...
Decades after Michael Brody Jr. offered Americans his fortune, Keith Maitland’s fascinating documentary opens some of their myriad letters.
KINGSTON, N.Y. – Fifty years ago, Jelke oleomargarine heir Michael James Brody Jr., fresh from his honeymoon with Ashokan resident Renee DuBois, announced to the world that he would give away ...
Writer-director Keith Maitland and producer Melissa Robyn Glassman explain the wild true story behind the documentary Dear Mr. Brody.