Jerry Berger

Gerald Allen Berger (June 30, 1933 – January 5, 2021) was an American press agent and journalist. He was known in the St. Louis, Missouri area for his columns in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Biography Berger was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Julius Berger and Rae Cohen. He was of Hungarian ancestry on his father's side and Russian ancestry on his mother's side. His father was a plumber. Berger was Jewish. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Rudolf Nureyev, he was working on a book at the time of his retirement.

Personal life and death Berger had an illegitimate son he never met. In 2013, Berger pled guilty to sexual misconduct, following an incident in which he groped a man in a check-out line.

Berger moved to Florida in 2017. He died on January 5, 2021, aged 87, from natural causes in Coral Springs, Florida. He was survived by his husband, Victor Isart.