# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-wachs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:39:55.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-wachs"
name: "Joel Wachs"
slug: "joel-wachs"
description: "Joel Wachs is an American former politician and lawyer. He is the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 30 years, where he was known for his promotion of the arts, support of gay causes, advocacy of rent control and other economic measures."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joel_Wachs%2C_2000.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1939-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             15.2390438247012
  historical:           4.864764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Wachs"
    title: "Joel Wachs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Wachs"
    title: "Joel Wachs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Wachs"
    title: "Joel Wachs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Wachs"
    title: "Joel Wachs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Wachs"
    title: "Joel Wachs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6214079"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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