# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-friedman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:48:42.508Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-friedman"
name: "Michel Friedman"
slug: "michel-friedman"
description: "Julien Michel Friedman is a German author, former CDU politician, and talk show host. From 2000 to 2003, Friedman was vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and president of the European Jewish Congress from 2001 to 2003, when he resigned after being convicted in a case involving forced prostitution and cocaine usage. From 1998 to 2003, he had his own show on German television. Since 2004, he has been hosting a weekly talk show on N24 called Studio Friedman.\nFriedman is a lawyer by profession, and studied law and philosophy."
tagline: "German-French lawyer, philosopher, politician, publicist and talk show host"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MJK62467_Michel_Friedman_(Frankfurter_Buchmesse_2018).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.534635999999999
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1071235/"
    handle:    "nm1071235"
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Friedman"
    title: "Michel Friedman"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Friedman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump