Editing David Geffen (section)

== Early life and education ==
David Geffen was born in [[Borough Park, Brooklyn]], New York, to Abraham Geffen and Batya Volovskaya (1909–1988).<ref>{{Cite web |last=McNamara |first=Tom |date=2012-11-01 |title=Inventing David Geffen ~ Timeline: Year by Year, how David Geffen Invented Himself {{!}} American Masters {{!}} PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/david-geffen-timeline-year-by-year-how-david-geffen-invented-himself/2358/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=American Masters |language=en-US}}</ref> Geffen's mother owned a clothing store in Borough Park called Chic Corsets by Geffen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/25/David-Geffen.html |title=David Geffen Biography (1943-) |publisher=Film Reference |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref> Both of his parents were [[Jewish]] immigrants who met in [[Mandatory Palestine]] and then moved to the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Pfefferman |first=Naomi |date=July 23, 2012 |title=David Geffen: prickly and terse about his Judaism |url=https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/106401/ |access-date= |work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]}}</ref> His older brother Mitchell (born Mischa) Geffen (1933–2006) was an attorney who attended [[UCLA]] Law School and later settled in [[Encino, California]].<ref>See generally Tom King, ''The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood'', p. 31, Broadway Books (New York 2001).</ref>

Geffen graduated from Brooklyn's [[New Utrecht High School]] in 1960 with a "barely passing 66 average". He attended the [[University of Texas at Austin]] for a semester, and then [[Brooklyn College]], before again dropping out. He then moved to [[Los Angeles, California]] to find his way in the entertainment business.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Bernard |last=Weinraub |date=May 2, 1993 |title=David Geffen, Still Hungry |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/magazine/david-geffen-still-hungry.html |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref> He attended [[Santa Monica College]] (then known as Santa Monica City College) in [[Santa Monica, California]], but soon left. Geffen attributed his challenges in school to [[dyslexia]].<ref name="About: Inventing David Geffen">{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/david-geffen-about-inventing-david-geffen/2146/|title=Inventing David Geffen ~ About the Film {{!}} American Masters {{!}} PBS|date=November 7, 2012|website=Pbs.org|access-date=September 3, 2021}}</ref>