Don Buchwald, Howard Stern’s ‘superagent’ and founder of namesake agency, dies at 88

Agent and agency founder Don Buchwald, shown in New York City in 2008, died July 22 in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Don Buchwald, who founded bicoastal talent agency Buchwald and notably represented Howard Stern in industry-altering negotiations with Sirius XM, died July 22 in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, an agency publicist confirmed. “Don was a true industry trailblazer,” daughter Julia Buchwald, president of the agency’s West Coast office, told The Times in an email Wednesday. Stern often referred to Buchwald as his “superagent.” “Howard Stern is getting paid a stupendous, phenomenal, astronomical amount of money,” a securities analyst told the Los Angeles Times in 2007. “But at the end of the day, Sirius will make money on the Howard Stern deal, and so will the shareholders.” Other notable Buchwald clients included Kathleen Turner, Ralph Macchio, Djimon Hounsou, Adam Goldberg, Billy Ray Cyrus, Simon Rex and Gina Yashere.