Joe Maddalena from "Hollywood Treasure" is the star of the Syfy reality docu-series.
Born into a family of antique dealers in Rhode Island, Joe Maddalena learned early on how to turn his passion of collecting historical autographs into a career.
As a child, while traveling with his parents to various antiques shows, Maddalena attended his first baseball card convention, and a great idea was born. An avid card collector, Maddalena saw that there was a community of collectors around the New England
Along with his parents serving hot dogs and sodas to the attendees, Maddalena's show proved so successful, that he continued staging shows branching out to comic book conventions. By the age of 14, he had amassed over one million baseball cards, thousands of autographs and over 100,000 comic books and original pieces of art. So begins the story of his company, Profiles in History.
Still viewing his passion more like a hobby than a career, Maddalena moved west in 1980 to attend Pepperdine University and pursued a career in broadcasting. Needing to support himself, Maddalena turned to his hobby of buying and selling historical documents. On weekends, he scoured the old bookstores of Hollywood for letters and rare books from such famous writers as Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Raymond Chandler, etc., that would fetch a fair price to collectors back in the East.
Upon graduating from Pepperdine—and realizing that a career in broadcasting was not in the stars—Maddalena pursued his passion becoming a full-time dealer of historical documents.
Expanding his horizons to include all facets of entertainment and historic memorabilia, Maddalena opened his first office in 1985. His inventory grew to include quality historical material dating from the Revolutionary War through contemporary world events, in fields ranging from the arts and sciences to U.S. Presidents, aviators, explorers, the Wild West, business leaders, literature and Hollywood icons.
Maddalena's expertise is well known and reputable. In 1997, he was instrumental in exposing the Lex Cusak, $13 million JFK/Marilyn Monroe forgery hoax, and was interviewed by Peter Jennings of "20/20" as an industry expert.
A lifetime member of the Manuscript Society, Maddalena is widely recognized as the nation's leading authority on entertainment memorabilia and historical documents. Maddalena won a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for paying a world record price at public auction for a handwritten letter of Abraham Lincoln dated January 8, 1863 regarding his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation for the sum of $749,000. He has been interviewed by hundreds of such leading news and entertainment sources throughout the world as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, AP, Reuters, Fox News, "Entertainment Tonight," "Access Hollywood," E! Entertainment, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, The Washington Post, Bill O'Reilly, Conan O'Brien and many, many more. Celebrities, executives and top collectors worldwide have recognized Maddalena's ability to acquire one-of-a-kind authentic artifacts.
In February 2009 Maddalena worked with the Library of Congress to stage "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Exhibition," the most successful exhibition in its history, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. The exhibition ran from February through May 2009, then traveled to five U.S. cities.
Maddalena sits on the boards of various private foundations and has built a permanent display of historical documents at the Beverly Hills Public Library and another at the Portland Oregon Historical Society to further the public's awareness of U.S. history.
Born into a family of antique dealers in Rhode Island, Joe Maddalena learned early on how to turn his passion of collecting historical autographs into a career.
As a child, while traveling with his parents to various antiques shows, Maddalena attended his first baseball card convention, and a great idea was born. An avid card collector, Maddalena saw that there was a community of collectors around the New England
area, but not enough shows to accommodate them. It was then, at 12 years old, that he decided to organize the first baseball card show in Rhode Island. With the money he saved from his paper route, young Maddalena rented the American Legion hall in his hometown of Cranston, Rhode Island, and staged the first-ever local card show.
Along with his parents serving hot dogs and sodas to the attendees, Maddalena's show proved so successful, that he continued staging shows branching out to comic book conventions. By the age of 14, he had amassed over one million baseball cards, thousands of autographs and over 100,000 comic books and original pieces of art. So begins the story of his company, Profiles in History.
Still viewing his passion more like a hobby than a career, Maddalena moved west in 1980 to attend Pepperdine University and pursued a career in broadcasting. Needing to support himself, Maddalena turned to his hobby of buying and selling historical documents. On weekends, he scoured the old bookstores of Hollywood for letters and rare books from such famous writers as Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Raymond Chandler, etc., that would fetch a fair price to collectors back in the East.
Upon graduating from Pepperdine—and realizing that a career in broadcasting was not in the stars—Maddalena pursued his passion becoming a full-time dealer of historical documents.
Expanding his horizons to include all facets of entertainment and historic memorabilia, Maddalena opened his first office in 1985. His inventory grew to include quality historical material dating from the Revolutionary War through contemporary world events, in fields ranging from the arts and sciences to U.S. Presidents, aviators, explorers, the Wild West, business leaders, literature and Hollywood icons.
Maddalena's expertise is well known and reputable. In 1997, he was instrumental in exposing the Lex Cusak, $13 million JFK/Marilyn Monroe forgery hoax, and was interviewed by Peter Jennings of "20/20" as an industry expert.
A lifetime member of the Manuscript Society, Maddalena is widely recognized as the nation's leading authority on entertainment memorabilia and historical documents. Maddalena won a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for paying a world record price at public auction for a handwritten letter of Abraham Lincoln dated January 8, 1863 regarding his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation for the sum of $749,000. He has been interviewed by hundreds of such leading news and entertainment sources throughout the world as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, AP, Reuters, Fox News, "Entertainment Tonight," "Access Hollywood," E! Entertainment, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, The Washington Post, Bill O'Reilly, Conan O'Brien and many, many more. Celebrities, executives and top collectors worldwide have recognized Maddalena's ability to acquire one-of-a-kind authentic artifacts.
In February 2009 Maddalena worked with the Library of Congress to stage "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Exhibition," the most successful exhibition in its history, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. The exhibition ran from February through May 2009, then traveled to five U.S. cities.
Maddalena sits on the boards of various private foundations and has built a permanent display of historical documents at the Beverly Hills Public Library and another at the Portland Oregon Historical Society to further the public's awareness of U.S. history.
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