Executive Producer’s Bio:
How Multiple Colliding Synchronicities Culminated in Media Maven Jay Shapiro’s Divine Decision to Produce the Highest Grossing Mafia / Drama / Action / Romance flick of all time!
“Buddy Jacobson The Movie”
Jay was born in 1972 north of the Iron Range. His connection to the Buddy Jacobson story is contemporaneous, personal and steeped in synchronicity. His mother, Dawn Eve, was discovered by one of Jacobson’s model scouts in Minneapolis and she accepted the offer to live in NYC and model for his firm: My Fair Lady Modeling Agency. She lived in the model’s penthouse on 84th street in the Upper East Side across the street from Nicola’s restaurant which happened to be one of Buddy’s favorite dining spots. Dawn was offered a lead supporting actress role in the movie Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro. After reading through the script and being turned off by certain elements of the big city life in NYC she turned it down. When Jacobson’s life exploded into the largest and most expensive scandal in the entire history of NY, Dawn walked away from the scene and never looked back.
In June 2025, everything came full circle.
The synchronicities which collided and unfolded all at once:
· BILLIONAIRE BOOK / BILLIONAIRE COUSIN. Out of curiosity Jay decided to do a maternal DNA test in the spring of 2025. A few weeks prior to receiving the maternal DNA results he started to work on writing his book: PERFORM LAB – “How to Perform Like a Billionaire” On June 12, 2025 the DNA results arrived. Jay googled the names of several of his cousins. Jay was delighted to find that he had a late great Chabad Rabbi as a cousin as well as dozens of German-Jewish cousins most of whom are or were multimillionaires. He googled the name of an exact match cousin: “Jeffrey Gural” He found out that Gural is perhaps the largest billionaire in NY. A man who happened to own all of the race track casinos in NY, his family built knickerbocker village, his firm has bought and sold a huge percentage of the skyscrapers in NYC and philanthropy is one of the cornerstones of Gural’s business strategy. Synchronicity Summary: During the covid era Jay stated writing his book about billionaires and their success strategies. He wrote a few pages and then ignored the book for a couple years. In late May and into June of 2025 he started writing the book again. On June 12 he finds out that his relative is perhaps the largest billionaire in NY at the same time he is writing a success book about billionaires.
· BILLIONAIRE COUSIN / BUDDY JACOBSON. After finding out Jay happens to have billionaire blood he decided to find Mr. Gural’s official corporate website to learn more. The site for GNP Real Estate™ had a very impressive company timeline starting in the 1950’s. When Jay landed on the 1970’s page he could not believe his eyes. Buddy Jacobson was Gural’s business partner!!! Synchronicity Summary: Jay and his mother are not even from NY, they are from northern Minnesota yet by chance, very oddly it happens to be fact that his mother’s modeling manager happened to be a close business associate with his newfound cousin Mr. Gural who happens to be the most powerful horse racing magnate in the world.
· BUDDY’S FRIEND / BOOK SIGNING / THREE ROBERTS Fast forward to mid-July 2025. Jay’s book had been published for several days and he decided to do a book signing at one of his favorite Italian restaurants, Matteo’s Trattoria in Hallandale Beach. Jay was standing at the bar signing a book for a patron named Robert when all of a sudden a man who looks just like Robert De Niro (De Niro was a former Buddy connection via Scorsese) walks up to Jay after overhearing him talk about horses and buddy Jacobson. The man’s name was actually Robert. They chatted for a few minutes and Bob said to Jay: Let me introduce you to somebody. Jay and Robert walk down the bar about 3 bar stools away and Robert introduced Jay to Robert! Turns out Robert is a highly successful race horse owner who happened to be very good friends with Howard Buddy Jacobson! Robert showed Jay many photos of him with Buddy, some of them in black and white. He was absolutely shocked that Jay knew about Buddy Jacobson from the 1970’s. (Jay is only 53) Robert was to fly to Saratoga the very next day. Synchronicity Summary: Robert to Robert to Robert introductions lead to a chance happening. Meeting Buddy’s close friend! To top this off, Robert recently attended the funeral of Sonny Franzese. Sonny was a well-respected man in NY. Sonny’s son happened to have attended one of Jay’s Lighthouse Point charity events many years prior. And Sonny was cousins to one of Jay’s good acquaintances
Jay is no stranger to synchronicities. All of his life he has been blessed with an extremely high level of intuition and good old-fashioned luck!
Right after the DNA results arrived he focused only on writing the book. He worked 15 hours per day non stop and even 22 hours in once instance. Jay said that he felt like he was propelled by a higher power and it did not seem like work at all.
Right after the Matteo’s meetings he automatically drove home and registered the domain name: BuddyJacobsonMovie.com and did not even have to think about it. He is off to the races producing the movie!
Two months ago if you would have asked Jay if he would consider producing a movie he would have said: Hell no!
Jay states that the synchronicities somehow magically elevated him and the motivation was and is like being on auto-pilot!
He sez: I feel like a new man. My life has changed drastically since June 2025
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