Cheryl Bogart

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Cheryl Lynn Bogart born in the late 1970s in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was from Italy, while her mother was a Russian from Chicago. Because her father had mob ties, her mother left the family. Her great uncle is Michael Cimino, who wrote and directed The Deer Hunter, which won multiple Academy Awards, including best director and best picture. He continued to direct other films after that, the most notorious of which was Heaven's Gate. The film's budget was one of the largest in movie making history, and it bankrupted United Artists.

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Cheryl Bogart is a multi-faceted music executive and advocate for spinal cord injury sufferers who has contributed to a long list of internationally successful artists. She now spearheads a campaign called Walking is a Privilege, due to a spinal cord injury she sustained in October 2005.

Cheryl moved to Beverly Hills, California at the age of 2. Cheryl's life then began what is equivalent to an E! True Hollywood Story. Growing up in the fast lane and attending Beverly Hills High School during the same time 90210 was on the air, she did many interviews and covers of international magazines. She started scouting models, musicians, actors and actresses while still in high school. She scouted for No Limit Records snd brought them a rap group called The Whooliganz known as Scott Caan (James Caan's son) and Alan Mamon aka..The Alchemist at barely 17 years old.

[edit] Her career

She then continued to work for and be mentored by Elliot Roberts and Lookout Management/Vapor/Sire/Warner Records amd aided in the day to day work of Neil Young, Jacob Dylan, Mazzy Star, Tegan & Sara, The Cars, Finley Quaye, among others. Elliot Roberts was also responsible for mentoring David Geffen and Irving Azoff.

She also did junior managemet for Shannon O' Shea (big manager to rock producers) @ SOS Management. She also worked with K-Ci & JoJo and Jon B. She continued on also working and doing A&R for the former Moonshine Music and Kobe Bryant's label Heads High Entertainment. She then moved to New York to manage long time friend Sean "Douglas" Stewart (son of legendary screenwriter Douglas "Day" Stewart). She worked for Bad Boy Records, aiding in day to day to for marketing for Dream. She watched the World Trade Center come down and then came back to Los Angeles, where she shopped Sean to Warner Music to Evan "Kidd" Bogart. During in which this time Cheryl married Evan Bogart (son of Casablanca Records owner Neil Bogart) and officially became Cheryl Bogart. (her maiden name was Costanzo) In 2002, Cheryl Bogart helped build her husband's Casbah Artists Management, a tribute to his deceased father. While together Cheryl inspired Evan and his producer Jonathan "J.R." Rotem to develop the trio Raw Candy, which in turn inspired Evan to become a pop songwriter. Eventually the team of Evan Bogart and Jonathan Rotem would write the #1 Worldwide smash hit "SOS", first for the girl group and eventually released and performed by Rihanna.

After many trials and tribulations Cheryl got divorced from Evan but still keeping the name, and started her own managenment company Spider Artists Management. She had acts Richard Grieco she put together his band Wastland Park, along with songwriters and producers.. She was in talks with management with The Green Children ( Universal Records ) when tragedy literally struck her life and she sustained a spinal cord injury in October 2005 which left her paralyzed from the waist down where she then became extremely passionate about a cure and started a campaign Walking is a Privilege. Besides still managing producers and songwriters and producing young pop artist Amanda Kay, and maintaining close relationships with the music industry, she is now in talks with film/tv/endorsement deals and trying to change the face of Hollywood forever. She has teamed up with film editor/music video director Adam Pope and is doing a documentary now and shooting a pilot for a potential reality show. In addition, she currently in talks with T.V. Networks and Companies including Tsubo Shoes for their City Movement Campaign.