Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon (17 January 1928 - 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser.[1] He was born in Hammersmith, London to Sephardi Jewish parents.[1] He moved to New York in the late 1960s.[1] He later moved to Los Angeles, California.[1] Sassoon was married four times. The first three marriages ended in divorce. His second marriage was to Canadian actress Beverly Adams (born 1940).[1] The couple had three children together and adopted another.[1] Sassoon was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009[1] and died at his Bel Air, Los Angeles home. His fourth marriage lasted until his death.