John de Mol
Johannes Hendrikus Hubert de Mol, Jr. (April 24, 1955 in The Hague) is a Dutch media entrepreneur which founded the Talpa company and co-founded the Endemol chain.
Biography
De Mol was born on 24 April in The Hague, and was married with singer Willeke Alberti, but divorced. He is the older brother of the Dutch presenter Linda de Mol (1964).
Business career
His first appearance in the media world was at the offshore radiostation Radio Noordzee Interationaal where his father John de Mol sr. (1931-2013) was the station director, in the 1980s he founded the television company John de Mol Produkties which merged in 1994 with Joop van den Endes company into Endemol, a famous television producer which was responsible for series like Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. In 2000 the two media moguls sold Endemol to the Spanish Telefónica for €5.5 billion.[1] Today Endemol is for a fifty-fifty stake owned by Murdochs 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management.[2] In 2000 De Mol has been founded Talpa Media, which has launched a TV-channel in 2005 but stopped her broadcasting in due to its failed market shares and was sold to the RTL Group in the summer of 2007. With Talpa, he owns multiple media companies like Radio 538, 8ball Music, Talpa Productions (sold to the British ITV plc. in 2015[3]) and has offices in Los Angeles, Berlin and Dubai.
