Alan Meltzer Poker

According to The Dailymail, Wind-Up Records founder and part-time poker player Alan Meltzer left a total of $1.5 million to his driver and doorman when he passed away last October.

Jean Laborde, Meltzer’s personal chauffeur, received $1 million and his doorman, Chamil Demirag, received $500,000. Demirag, a Brooklyn, New York resident, said, “He was a generous guy. It’s a surprise. Peace and rest to him.”

Before he founded Wind-Up Records, which includes bands such as Creed, Evanescence, O.A.R., Seether, People in Planes and Five For Fighting, Meltzer was a pretzel vendor on the streets of New York.

Sadly for Poker After Dark fans, Alan Meltzer won’t be back in the new episodes of the classic show, because he’s permanently unavailable, having passed away in 2011. Upon his death, two men were surprised to find that they had received a large amount of money bequeathed to the in Meltzer’s will. Meltzer, who had a home on Old Branchville Road in the 1980s and 1990s, was a wealthy music entrepreneur whom The New York Post described as “the colorful former head of the New York-based Wind-Up. Alan Meltzer (1944 – October 31, 2011) was an American businessman and poker player who founded Wind-up Records along with his ex-wife Diana Meltzer.

In the last few years, Meltzer had frequented the poker tournament circuit and even appeared multiple times on GSN’s High Stakes Poker.

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Alan Meltzer Poker

The 67-year-old had no children and recently divorced his wife of 13 years. The cause of his death is still unknown.