One day in early January 1970, Michael James Brody Jr. stepped off a Pan Am jet at John F. Kennedy Airport and into what would be one of the new decade’s shortest, strangest 15 minutes of fame.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“All postmarked January 1970, all addressed to Michael James Brody Jr., and they were all unopened.” Glassman teamed up with director Keith Maitland to turn Brody’s story into a documentary, and Ed ...

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 ...

Decades after Michael Brody Jr. offered Americans his fortune, Keith Maitland’s fascinating documentary opens some of their myriad letters. ... Don Enright, Ed Dwyer, Michael James Brody III.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1970, Michael Brody Jr. announced he would give away $25 million to anyone in need who asked for help. Here’s what happened instead. In 1970, ...

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 ...