# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dov-charney
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:26:15.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dov-charney"
name: "Dov Charney"
slug: "dov-charney"
description: "Dov Charney is a Canadian entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. He is the founder of American Apparel, which was one of the largest garment manufacturers in the United States until its bankruptcy in 2015. Charney was fired from American Apparel in 2014 due to allegations of sexual harassment and assault. He subsequently founded Los Angeles Apparel which produces Kanye West's line Yeezy."
tagline: "Canadian entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aaceophoto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1969-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.33
  momentum:             11.82748347735165
  historical:           7.526644
  currentAttention:     56.82851427532278
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4247824/"
    handle:    "nm4247824"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dov_Charney"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%81_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "دوف تشارني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%81_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "دوف تشارنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney"
    title: "Dov Charney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney"
    title: "Dov Charney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney"
    title: "Dov Charney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney"
    title: "Dov Charney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3038267"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5447800"
    title: "Dov Charney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump