Dov Charney

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Dov Charney is the CEO of the garment company American Apparel (AA), which employed about 5,000 people in 2005. AA now has over 125 retail outlets with plans of expansion.

Dov Charney was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to Jewish Canadian parents, although considers himself to be an atheist. In addition to his business exploits, Dov Charney is also a libertine, and active advocate of free speech and freedom of expression.

Charney is a controversial figure, having had numerous (consensual) sexual relationships with employees and having masturbated several times in front of a reporter during the course of a two-month-long Jane magazine interview. [link] He is also accused of conducting job interviews in his underwear and giving employees vibrators.

Charney attended Tufts University, but left the school before graduating. He started an apparel company in 1989 in Columbia, South Carolina, but the business went bankrupt in 1996. He founded the new version of American Apparel in 1998. [link]

His uncle is the Israeli architect Moshe Safdie.

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