Cheryl Shuman

Cheryl Shuman (born 19 March 1960) is an American businesswoman, media personality and promoter. Shuman's personal business ventures have included couponing advice, eyeglasses supplier for actors and a private marijuana club in Los Angeles called Beverly Hills Cannabis Club. She promoted herself variously as the "Coupon Queen," "Optician to the Stars," and the "Martha Stewart of Marijuana."

Early life Shuman was born and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Career In 1980, Shuman identified herself as a "Coupon Queen," She self-published a Complete Guide to Successful Couponing and Refunding (under her married name, Cheryl Peart), sold a monthly newsletter of coupon tips, and gave talks to local groups about couponing. This led to regular appearances giving couponing tips on the PM Magazine television show. According to Shuman, while recovering from a bad car accident in 1983, her TV appearances ended as well as her couponing business.

Shuman got a job working as an assistant to an optician in London, Ohio.

Shuman became active in promoting the retail marijuana business in California. In a 2016 interview, Shuman said she became a regular pot user after a doctor recommended it as a mood stabilizer to help her eliminate large daily amounts of Prozac and Xanax that she was taking. Shuman said she founded a Beverly Hills Cannabis Club in 1996, the year medical marijuana was legalized in California. In a 2015 New York Times article titled "Cannabis Queen of Beverly Hills", Shuman said that she used large amounts of marijuana oil in 2006 to cure herself of ovarian cancer as well as used cannabis to treat her hypertension and a benign mass on her liver.

Shuman called herself "the Martha Stewart of Marijuana" and hosted some private events to promote a wide variety of her own possible marijuana-related businesses for upscale clients.

In 1995, Shuman filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Steven Seagal with whom she claimed a four-month affair. The suit also named actor Michael Caine, Seagal's wife Kelly LeBrock, Warner Bros. and other assorted defendants for conspiracy, breach of contract, negligence, assault and battery. Calling the lawsuit “unintelligible,” the judge dismissed it with prejudice. Shuman had been arrested for felony perjury the previous month for using the District Attorney's stationery to forge documents and a press release.

Personal life Shuman married David Peart They had one child before divorcing in 1983.