As a businessman, he and a partner, Lawrence E. Deutsch, made Adolph's Meat Tenderizer a national brand.
[7] As a young man, he moved to live with relatives in Chicago and worked to save money to attend the University of Illinois, from which he graduated in 1939.
He later headed guest relations at RCA's exhibit introducing television at the New York World's Fair in 1940.
[2][8] After the sale of their company, Deutsch and Rigler formed the Ledler Corporation, a venture capital firm.
[7] Other philanthropic efforts:[7] Rigler died of cancer on December 7, 2003, at age 88, at his home in Los Angeles.