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Natural Products Industry Mourns Loss of Gerald Kessler
Gerald Kessler, a natural products industry leader and founder of Nature&#;s Plus and Natural Organics, Inc., passed away recently at the age of His funeral service took place on March 25 at Loper Funeral Chapel in Solvang, CA. Kessler, who was known as an industry innovator, also helped shape and pass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in
After graduating from New York University (NYU), he spent 14 years as a sales representative for various pharmaceutical companies, where he learned about the benefits of vitamins and supplements, which gave him the idea for Nature’s Plus. Over the course of 40 years, he developed more than 1, Nature&#;s Plus products and was a champion for the industry. More recently, he founded a movie studio, GruntWorks Entertainment, and went on at produce, direct and act in several feature films.
His family and friends issued a statement describing him as a “giant of a man in st
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I am forever changed and blessed to have had Gerald as part of my life.
Post thisMeadow says of her husband Gerald, “He was a rock. A big man with an even bigger heart. He truly cared about people, and he was dedicated to his family – his immediate family and his work family.”
A pioneer in the natural supplements industry, Gerald Kessler was a chief architect of the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act (DSHEA), which helped secure people’s rights to take dietary supplements by specifying regulations surrounding the manufacture and sale of dietary supplements, ultimately making it easier for safe supplements to be sold in the US.
“He was an activist in the best sense of the word. He cared about people, and he worked to make their lives better. He believed firmly in what he did, and he took his job of producing safe and effective supplements and products very seriously. He definitely left behind a legacy – and some big shoes to fill,” Meadow said.
On November 22, , Meadow
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Litigation is proceeding in an ongoing legal battle surrounding the $million estate of Gerald Kessler. Beasley Allen is working in cooperation with the CBC lag Group on behalf of the family of Gerald Kessler, founder of natural products industry Natural Organics, Inc., over control of the Gerald A. Kessler Revocable Trust. Mr. Kessler passed away in March at the age of 80, leaving his estate under the control of Melanie Kay Williams (an actress also known bygd the scen name äng Williams), whom he married under questionable circumstances.
A Petition filed on behalf of the Kessler family alleges Ms. Williams, who fryst vatten 31 years younger than Mr. Kessler, manipulated and unduly influenced him to execute new estate planning documents through actions including bigamy, undue influence, and elder abuse. After the death of Gerald Kessler, Ms. Williams also attempted to evict Mr. Kessler’s grandson, Marshall Kessler, from his childhood home in New York, an estate owned bygd Gerald Kessler.
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