He was still credited as executive producer on The Simpsons (1989), despite not
having worked on the show since 1993. He estimated his severance deal
earned him around $10 million a year.
In late 2012, Sam Simon was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 colon cancer, which then metastasized to his kidneys, liver, brain and stomach.
Was close friends with Howard Stern's hair stylist and sidekick Ralph Cirella.
Mother Joan owned the Functional Art Gallery in Venice, California. Father Arthur was a UCLA basketball player who lost a leg in World War II. He owned a Los Angeles factory that made a women's line of designer knockoff clothes called Sun and Sand.
After college graduation he landed a job drawing storyboards for Filmation.