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William Wolf Handel (born August 25, 1951) is a Brazilian-born American radio host and attorney.
Handel currently hosts two radio programs on KFI in Los Angeles, California. First is KFI’s local morning drive time show, in which he comments on current events. The program is one of the top rated morning programs in the Los Angeles radio market, with more than 1 million listeners. Additionally, he hosts a legal advice show on weekends called Handel on the Law, which launched in 1985 and is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, co-owned with KFI by iHeartMedia, Inc. Handel on the Law is heard on more than 150 stations in the U.S. He was also the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting.
His legal show is currently his longest running radio program to date. Both of Handel’s shows played across the U.S. on the America’s Talk channel 158 on XM Satellite Radio. In 2008, Handel’s shows were discontinued by XM Radio when it merged with Sirius Satellite Radio.
Handel was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His father Leo was from Yugoslavia, and his mother Nechama was a Polish Jew who grew up in Brazil. Handel’s paternal grandparents were killed in the…
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