Longtime TV Agent is Dead
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Controversial Tv Agent John Ferriter is dead at the age of 59 years old.
Ferriter represented a number of big and no so big names in the business. They included, Jimmy Kimmel, Dick Clark, Arsenio Hall, Ryan Seacrest, Piers Morgan, Marie Osmond, Drew Pinsky, Erin Burnett and others.
Page Six writes that Ferriter sued William Morris Endeavor for $25 million after its 2009 merger. “I was constructively terminated,” he told the Daily Beast in 2010. Ferriter joined Octagon as managing director before opening The Alternative in partnership with Jamie Gruttemeyer.
FTVLive exchanged emails over the years with Ferriter and talked with him from time to time.
When FTVLive FIRST reported that CNN was going to push Piers Morgan to the curb, Morgan called us a a “Mad Blogger” and said it was not true.
Of course it was and Morgan soon left CNN.
After the incident, Ferriter (Who was Morgan’s agent) emailed FTVLive:
We talked with Ferriter from time to time and liked his maverick attitude.
Many of his clients and former clients reacted to the sad news.
No cause of death has been released.
