Sebastian Zar, Attorney Who Represented Post Malone & More, Dies at 36

Sebastian Zar, an lawyer whose clients included Post Malone, died abruptly connected Sunday (Oct. 12). He was 36.

The New York-based Zar worked for Theo Sedlmayr & Associates. “We’re received an outpouring of messages from radical successful our manufacture sharing their thoughts astir Sebastian,” Sedlmayr told Billboard. I similar to judge that’s due to the fact that helium was a kindred tone to many, passionate astir supporting creators of euphony successful each its forms. He’ll beryllium profoundly missed by everyone whose lives were touched by his affirmative energy.”

In 2018, Billboard highlighted Zar, who grew up successful Great Neck, N.Y.,  as a “rising star” — 1 of 5 manufacture executives inactive successful their 20s but already making an impact. At the time, Billboard wrote: “While astatine Syracuse University School of Law, Zar began managing artists. At 26, helium started his ain instrumentality firm. He has since landed at Sedlmayr, wherever his clients see Post Malone and Pusha T.”  Zar told Billboard of his tendency to conscionable immoderate his clients needed: “In the streaming age, a batch of these young artists don’t privation a statement deal,” says Zar. “I’m consenting to enactment connected arsenic galore hats arsenic indispensable to get them to wherever they privation to be.” 

Range Media Partners’ Matt Range, who had known Zar for astir 20 years, says the precocious lawyer made an instant impression. “Sebastian’s hustle, committedness and changeless tendency to find the adjacent large creator was evident from the time I hired him arsenic an intern 17 years agone and that occurrence was ne'er extinguished,” helium tells Billboard successful a statement. “I loved him for his assurance and for staying contiguous successful my beingness and the lives of everyone helium cared about. He ne'er fto excessively overmuch clip walk without catching up. I’m gutted to suffer him arsenic a person and small brother, and we are each worse disconnected successful the euphony manufacture without him advocating connected behalf of the artists helium loved truthful much.” Zar worked with Range arsenic extracurricular counsel.

Like Graham, Universal Music Publishing Group president and CEO Jody Gerson had known Zar for years, archetypal becoming alert of him done her son. “My lad Julian followed Sebastian’s euphony blog, Watch My Ego, erstwhile helium was successful precocious school. He reached retired to Sebastian, and the 2 rapidly bonded implicit their shared emotion of euphony and discovering caller artists,” Gerson tells Billboard. “Later, Sebastian told Julian helium was applying to instrumentality schoolhouse and hoped to signifier amusement law. He asked if I mightiness constitute him a missive of recommendation, and aft getting to cognize him better, I was much than blessed to bash it. I was thrilled erstwhile helium called to accidental he’d been accepted — and adjacent much thrilled years aboriginal erstwhile Theo Sedlmayr took a accidental connected him and brought him into the firm. Sebastian was a genuinely peculiar person, and helium has near america acold excessively soon.

“I americium profoundly saddened by his passing and nonstop my heartfelt condolences to his household and loved ones,” Gerson continues. “His parents should beryllium truthful proud. Sebastian was a beauteous and benignant idiosyncratic — a fantastic attorney, and astatine his core, a genuine euphony fan. We volition miss him dearly.”

Zar is survived by his siblings, James Zar and Kimberly Bloorian.