Dade Hayes Finance EditorJoe Sutton, whose 55-year career in the entertainment business included work as a publicist, manager and radio and TV host, has died at age 83.Michael Sutton, his son, confirmed the news to Deadline.
A cause of death was not specified.Joe Sutton was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1937 and then moved to LA three years later.After getting his start as an assistant at Rogers & Cowan, he partnered with Mickey Freeman to establish Freeman and Sutton Public Relations.
The firm had two stints in operation, the first in the 1960s and the second mostly in the 1980s and ’90s.In between, Sutton focused on the music business.
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