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Kohner Agency Lays Off Its Talent Agents Due To “Profound & Unprecedented Economic Pressures”

Deadline · September 18, 2026 at 9:13 PM

Kohner Agency Lays Off Its Talent Agents Due To “Profound & Unprecedented Economic Pressures”

EXCLUSIVE: The Kohner Agency is downsizing.

Its three talent agents have been laid off.

The talent department will stay open to service existing contracts and collect commission only.

Owner and President Pearl Wexler stresses that the agency, which has been in business for almost 90 years, is not cl

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Kohner Agency Lays Off Its Talent Agents Due To “Profound & Unprecedented Economic Pressures”

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