and event to benefit America's homeless, with David Mathison. Later life Kragen continued to work actively as a consultant for several companies and non-profits including the Southern California Jet Propulsion Laboratory; the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; and Rallysong100. He recently sold a reality show to Fremantle and was in development on four other shows. He was writing a book with Tony Robbins and was producing an awards show in 2015 for the magazine Live Happy. In 1997 Kragen was a featured speaker at, and consultant to, the Interface Corporation's annual meeting, held in Maui, which won the Global Paragon Award for strategic excellence from Meeting Professionals International. He portrayed himself in the 1996 TV movie The Late Shift about the battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman for The Tonight Show. A dispute between Kragen and Leno's longtime manager and executive producer at The Tonight Show, Helen Kushnick, contributed to Kushnick's departure. Kragen received multiple awards, including the United Nations' Peace Medal, the Man of The Year from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern California, two MTV Video Awards, and several Grammy nominations. He was a professor at UCLA. Kragen died from natural causes at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, on December 14, 2021, at the age of 85. References External links Ken Kragen official site 1936 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople American music managers Businesspeople from California Harvard Business School alumni People from Alameda County, California People from Brentwood, Los Angeles Television producers from California UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni