Jeffrey Christian Spink (February 25, 1972 – April 18, 2017) was an American talent manager and film producer.
[1] Spink established Benderspink, a management-production company with partner Chris Bender in 1998 with American Pie in post-production and fourteen writer clients.
Spink produced or executive produced a wide variety of projects, including Cats & Dogs, The Ring franchise, The Butterfly Effect, Kyle XY (for television), Leap Year and A History of Violence, for which he and Bender received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
[5] A young J. C. Spink (played by actors Cooper Roth and Zayne Emory) was a recurring minor character in the first two seasons of the ABC comedy The Goldbergs.
[1][6] On July 12 the same year, the Los Angeles County coroner's office ruled that his death was complications from an accidental undiagnosed drug overdose.