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I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

John Paul DeJoria

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John Paul DeJoria
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 13
Businessman
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Echo Park
Los Angeles
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