How do celebrities source their CCs?

[Riverstyx]

Last night I was reading CA and actor David Harbour was discussing his favorite CCs.  I started thinking - how do these celebs get them?  Not that it's hard of course, but do they buy online?  From travel?  Each one know somebody?  Is there a Hollywood "cigar guy" that sources for all of them?  I remember seeing a large NY lounge got in trouble once...maybe the high end lounges are the source?

Note: I'm talking about sources in general (not specific vendors) and this post was ok'd by @El Presidente  

[JohnS]

I remember Laurence Davis speaking about Stephen Baldwin sourcing cigars through his business in a video recently. Vendors don't tend to name their customers for privacy reasons but I'd imagine a few of them (i.e. celebrities) get their stock through a personal relationship with prominent vendors.

[Rhinoww]

That’s the problem for the personal assistant to figure out using the celebs money. 

[Tommy_Tao]

People easily get illegal drugs, how hard it could be for a passionate cigar aficionado? 

[Bazinga]

I would do that job any time of the day, to be the personal shopper for celebs and treat my self for someboxes

 

[El Presidente]

Over the years we have supplied many famous actors, politicians (both sides), writers and singers.

Some use intermediaries. Most deal direct. 

[Cigarsmoker81]

I remember reading an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger  in cigar aficionado and he said he had a cigar guy that supplied his Cuban  cigar purchases 

[Hammer Smokin']

Before it's closure, I was in the Toronto LCDH. A customer came in and asked if his order of FIVE boxes of Behike 54's had come in. I didn't recognize the guy, just some average dude. 

You can't even begin to imagine how much they would cost here in Canada, from a LCDH, with our taxes. I asked if the guy was being serious, 5 boxes of B54's? Owner of LCDH told me it was one of Drake's personal assistants. 

He said he sells many boxes of Behike 54's to Drake. 

[rcarlson]

Well, I just order them direct, like regular people.  

[NSXCIGAR]

It's the only reason I'm here having to deal with all you lowly little people. 

[mprach024]

4 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Over the years we have supplied many famous actors, politicians (both sides), writers and singers.

Some use intermediaries. Most deal direct. 

How many post on the forum?  ?

[El Presidente]

16 minutes ago, mprach024 said:

How many post on the forum?  ?

none....but plenty read and a few even hit 2424 

[yossie]

45 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

none....but plenty read and a few even hit 2424 

I got what you don't include Ken as a famous writer,?

[El Presidente]

Just now, yossie said:

I got what you don't include Ken as a famous writer,?

I had him more under the category of famous clowns 

[Ken Gargett]

10 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

I had him more under the category of famous clowns 

nice. is that your "wandering" mind again? 

i truly hate/detest clowns. i am convinced that a career as a clown is the next step for most defrocked priests. and a few that are yet to be defrocked. 

[Joeyjojo]

In an interview, Pete Johnson said in the 90's, when was still in retail, he used to go down from LA to near the US/Mexico boarder and had a guy that supplied CC.

Apparently Pete would open and check as many as he could, keep the best ones and distribute them across a small circle of folks he knew from the cigar shop he worked at.

I can imagine similar things still happening across high end cigar circles in LA.

[JoeyGunz]

I saw Boris Becker in Sautter's on Mount Street, London.

[BrightonCorgi]

They buy them the same ways we do.  Traveling (duty free), online, from friends, and retail.  They're really no different in that sense.  Just like celebrities going shopping for food, etc.

 

[joeypots]

I'll ask Michael Jordan and post his answer.

[Webbo]

Would love to see a webcam of Jack Nicholson banging the refresh button 10 seconds after 24:24 has gone live shouting "little pig, little pig let me come in.."

[Puros Y Vino]

1 hour ago, joeypots said:

I'll ask Michael Jordan and post his answer.

I know a guy who claims to have sourced some stuff for him.  He's somewhat credible as he has a huge inventory of aged stock.  He told me he used to cross the border and shop at the various Toronto tobacco shops in the 80's and 90's.   While he did not actually meet Jordan face to face, he would get calls from his him or his office to discuss what he was looking for and whom he'd be sending to do the transaction.  He was one of many of Michael's sources apparently.

[Elgallo55]

Some of them are probably reading this post, maybe even replying. Arnold are you there? ?

[dangolf18]

5 hours ago, joeypots said:

I'll ask Michael Jordan and post his answer.

I actually know who provides his cigars...not going to say, but it's not a trusted LCDH or anything like that (I'm sure he does buy from LCDHs when he travels though).

[bates40]

De Caprio bought a lot of cigars in TJ when filming "Titanic"

[La_Tigre]

Riding in their RR’s, of course...?