* In 1999, when President Clinton responded to a series of deadly shootings in American high schools by urging the entertainment industry to tone down its emphasis on violence, Geffen said: “Why not blame the libraries? They’re full of violent books.”

* As of 2013, the David Geffen Foundation’s assets were just under $89.7 million. That same year, the Foundation awarded more than $4.1 million in grants, gifts, and contributions to scores of groups including the ACLU Lesbian/Gay Rights Project, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Liberty Hill Foundation, the Nation Institute, National Public Radio, Planned Parenthood, and UNICEF.