Birth place: Brooklyn, New York
Birth name: David Lawrence Geffen
Father: Abraham Geffen, pattern maker
Mother: Batya (Volovskaya) Geffen, shopkeeper
Education: Attended University of Texas, Austin; Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Santa Monica City College.
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May 2002 – Donates $200 million to UCLA in what is considered the largest single donation to a U.S. medical school in history at that time. The David Geffen Medical School is named in his honor after this donation.
January 2006 – Dreamworks is sold to Paramount Pictures.
2008 – Leaves Dreamworks.
March 5, 2010 – Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a “non-performer.”
2012 – Donates $100 million to UCLA’s David Geffen Medical School.
