Les Gold
Birth Name:
Leslie Gold
Birth Place:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Profession
Producer
Fast Facts
- Regularly supports the THAW Foundation, a non-profit aimed at helping local Detroit residents with paying their heating and electricity bills during winter
- The grandson of a well-known pawn shop owner in Michigan, he began working at the family business at seven-years-old
- Quote: "My grandfather would be so proud to see what I have done for the industry and what I have done for pawnbrokers of the nation․"
- Became the subject of the TruTV reality series "Hardcore Pawn" in 2009 after a producer of "The Jerry Springer Show" saw his ads running during commercial breaks and contacted him about starring in his own program
- In 1993, he turned a 50,000 square foot bowling alley into the American Jewelry and Loan
- Published his first autobiography, "For What It's Worth: Business Wisdom From a Pawnrboker," in 2013