Weintraub has been credited with making "show business history" by being the first to organize and manage large arena concert tours for singers.

Among the other performers whose tours he managed were Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Four Seasons, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night and The Carpenters.

Among them were director Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), Barry Levinson's Diner (1982), the first five films from The Karate Kid franchise, as well as the remake Ocean's Eleven (2001), and its two sequels.

[5] After several years at MCA, where he first started work as a mailroom clerk, he left and formed his own personal management company.

Among the acts that Weintraub managed at this time were Paul Anka, Shelley Berman, Pat Boone, Joey Bishop, The Four Seasons, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, and singer Jane Morgan, whom he would later marry.

The tour, with a modern sound system created for it, helped develop Weintraub's career as a concert promoter.

[11] Dylan began a world tour beginning in Japan which continued through Europe and the US, performing 114 shows in front of two million people.

[12] Biographer David Morrell writes, "We take this for granted now, but Weintraub's ability to organize these massive concerts made show-business history.

"[13] Led Zeppelin manager, Peter Grant, recalls that Weintraub worked hard at putting on these large shows.

[6] Weintraub also managed or promoted concerts for such musical acts as Cuba Gooding Sr., the Main Ingredient, the Carpenters, the Moody Blues, and the Beach Boys.

A short time later, Weintraub was hosting a party for John Denver in New York, and among the guests he invited was Altman, whom he admired but had never met.

Weintraub eventually managed to find investors and gave Altman the $2 million he needed to make the film.

[20][21] Weintraub's later films as producer were Happy New Year (1987), Pure Country (1992), The Specialist (1994), Vegas Vacation (1997), The Newton Boys (1998), The Avengers (1998), Soldier (1998), Nancy Drew (2007), The Karate Kid (2010), and the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven, for which he founded the company JW Productions.

Weintraub had a small role in Vegas Vacation (1997) as "Gilly from Philly" a high roller casino gambler with two pals, and in The Firm (1993).

[23] A television documentary film about Weintraub's life, called His Way, directed by Douglas McGrath, was broadcast on HBO in 2011.

In 1988, the American Friends of the Hebrew University gave Weintraub and his wife, Jane, the Scopus Award in gratitude for their support.

Weintraub, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, and Brad Pitt cofounded the nonprofit organization, Not On Our Watch, dedicated to preventing mass killings in Darfur and other areas of the world.

His first wife was Janice Greenberg, a dentist's daughter from his Bronx neighborhood who had been singer Julius La Rosa's secretary.

"Jerry was an American original, who earned his success by the sheer force of his instinct, drive, and larger-than-life personality," said former president George H.W.

[5] Actor Don Cheadle wrote, "Jerry was to me equal parts Godfather, rainmaker, caretaker, PT Barnum and friend.

"[32] George Clooney, star of the Ocean's movies, said that "in the coming days there will be tributes about our friend Jerry Weintraub.