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Victor Kiam
American businessman and football executive
Victor Kermit Kiam II (December 7, 1926 – May 27, 2001) was an American entrepreneur and TV spokesman for Remington Products, and the owner of the New England Patriots football team from 1988–1991.
He was well known for his turnaround of Remington's fortunes, as well as for his commercials written by his director of advertising and sales promotion at Benrus, Howard Shavelson, with whom he first worked on the Playtex Cross Your Heart Bra commercials.
Biography
Kiam was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the son of Nanon and Victor Kermit Kiam,[2] a bond dealer who had divorced his actress wife while Kiam was four.[3] His parents both moved away, with his mother going to California and his father to New York.[2] He was educated by his maternal grandfather at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of future U.S.
President George Herbert Walker Bush.[3]