Louise Palanker

Louise Palanker is a co-founder of Premiere Networks, now a division of iHeartMedia.

[7][8] Palanker produced and directed the documentary films: Family Band: The Cowsills Story (airing on Showtime in 2013–2014, now available on Amazon Prime), We Played Marbles: Remembering a Stolen Childhood (2007), about the lives of Holocaust survivors, and the short documentary, Margaret Singer: Seeking Light, which was selected by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2020.

In March 2005, Palanker testified in the trial of Michael Jackson as a witness for the prosecution.

The prosecution called Palanker to testify about a call she received from the accuser's mother, and to rebut defense suggestions that the family tried to dupe celebrities, including Palanker, George Lopez and Jay Leno, into giving them money.

She lives in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California, with her husband.