“I was a big Ninja Turtles fan.” Now he was watching documentaries about the great producers of that era-Norman Lear, who developed “The Jeffersons,” Quincy Jones, who worked with Michael Jackson and produced “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”-revisiting the eighties and nineties from the vantage point of a Beverly Hills executive.
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“I remember when ‘Bloodsport’ came out-I used to watch that movie over and over again,” he said. He was an obsessive consumer of movies and TV and saw them as subjects to be mastered as much as relished. He began to speak about the pop culture of his childhood. Lest anyone doubt his seriousness, Paul said he owns the same Detroit Lions jacket as Foley wore in “Beverly Hills Cop II.”
When I asked him why he had chosen Beverly Hills, after deciding to leave his home town of Cleveland for Southern California, in 2019, he said, without a glimmer of a smile, “Axel Foley”-Eddie Murphy’s character in the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise. He isn’t likely to laugh at your joke or concede a point just to make you feel more at ease. He has a cool, even speaking style that must serve him well when he’s asking a team owner to part with many millions of dollars. Paul, who is forty, is trim and about five feet nine inches tall, which means he stands eye-to-shoulder with many of his clients. “I was watching ‘The Godfather’ at a very young age,” Paul said.
There was a poster of Muhammad Ali that took up almost an entire wall, as well as a few stills from gangster movies. When we met there recently, Paul, dressed in a Nike T-shirt, basketball shorts, and sandals, sat in an oversized chair, in front of portraits of James Baldwin and Michael Jackson. He often takes calls in a small house in the back yard, which is decorated like an old-time cigar lounge, with framed vintage photographs, dark-brown furniture, and low lighting.
Rich Paul, the trusted agent of LeBron James and a bevy of other National Basketball Association all-stars, has spent the pandemic working from his property in Beverly Hills.
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