Fred Hayman

[citation needed] Hayman was born to a Jewish family[3] in St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1925, the son of Richard Pollag and Irma Levy.

[4] His family emigrated to New York during World War II, where Hayman found work as an apprentice chef at the Waldorf-Astoria.

[5] Giorgio Beverly Hills was founded by Hayman and George Grant, who opened their women's fashion boutique in 1961 at 273 Rodeo Drive (at the junction with Dayton Way), which was then a very ordinary street.

[6] The store had a reading room, pool table and oak bar, so that men could amuse themselves while the women shopped.

[7] Hayman owned an office building on Canon Drive, next to the restaurant Spago, which has his name on the top in a distinctive red script against a background of his signature yellow.

Hayman's third wife was Gale Gardner, whom he married in 1966,[1] and met whilst they were both working at the Beverly Hilton.

He was survived by his wife, Betty Endo; two sons, Charles and Robert; a daughter, Nicole Hayman; and 10 grandchildren.