Biographie
Before coming to Hollywood in 1986, Peter Paul was an international corporate attorney in Miami Florida where he developed the Miami World Trade Center and 65 story office tower designed by I.M.Pei. Mr. Paul directed a $9 million sting on Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro titled "The Cuban Coffee Caper" by Time Magazine in February, 1979. Leslie Moonves, then President of Lorimar telepictures, now CEO of CBS, optioned this story in 1985, but production never proceeded when Moonves left Lorimar.
Paul began producing Hollywood Gala's when he was President of the California Bicentennial Foundation for the US Constitution and Bill of Rights created by Governor Deukmejian and the California legislature. In 1987 Paul created the Spirit of America Award program and produced the first of a series of annual Governor's Balls which included award presentations by and to President Ronald Reagan, President Lech Walesa (of Poland), President Boris Yeltsin (of CIS), Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Stan Lee, Yo Yo Ma, Muhammad Ali, Helen Hayes, MCA/Universal, Jaime Escalante, Robert O Anderson, Rafer Johnson, among others.
Paul co-produced with Merv Griffin, President Reagan's Welcome Home Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills ten days before Reagan left the White House.
Paul Executive produced and created two floats for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses on New Years Day 1988 and 1990 to announce the Bicentennial of the US Constitution and of the Bill of Rights. The 1988 float carried the largest American flags ever created with roses, along with Muhammad Ali, Buzz Aldrin and Mickey Mouse, and two Californians selected by the California lottery. The 1990 Float led the parade carrying the Official Monument to the Constitution and Bill of Rights dedicated by President Reagan at Independence Hall, along with Will Smith and Kirk Cameron representing the Youth of America. Paul produced Will Smith's first press conference in Los Angeles and assisted him in concluding his television acting project produced by Benny Medina, Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
In 1992 Paul masterminded the career of Romance Icon Fabio, taking him from an unemployed ex-Ford fashion model to a best selling Romance Novelist and household name in the United States and in eight languages.
In 1996, using the newly emerging motion capture performance emulation technology, Paul created, copyrighted and produced the first computer generated virtual actress, VM2-Virtual Marilyn, which adopted the persona of Marilyn Monroe, to live in cyberspace and perform in all media. Sony Corp. selected and licensed VM2 to portray the Avatar based computer of the future, and she co-hosted a one hour pilot for a TV/Internet show, "What's Hot, What's Not" and was featured in a Japanese music video for "Love Me, Love Me."
In 1998, Paul F.Paul co-founded Stan Lee Media with comic book legend Stan Lee and took the company public via a reverse-merger into a trading shell in August 1999. Peter Paul supervised the negotiation of a new agreement for his partner Stan Lee with Marvel Comics, enabling Lee to obtain a non-exclusive contract with Marvel Comics for the first time in his lifetime employment with Marvel. This enabled Paul and Lee to start a new Internet-based
In February, 2000, in the midst of the Internet stock market boom, Stan Lee Media built a 165 person studio that surpassed Disney and Warner Brothers in online animation, and the company's market capitalization grew to well over $370 million, about $100 million more than Marvel Enterprises.
