Yes Sy Sperline the founder of Hair Club for Men (and also a client) . . . died Wednesday. He was 78. Sperling founded the company in 1976 with just $10,000, and sold it in 2000 for $45 million. (Full Story)
He went national in the early ’80s, with his now-legendary TV commercials where he admitted, quote, “I’m not only the Hair Club president, but I’m also a client.”
He also started Hair Club for Kids, “providing hair free of charge to children under 18 who lost their hair from chemotherapy.”