Background
Born Cheryl Lyn Flor, Saban was born and raised in San Diego. Her father worked for the local telephone company.
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Cheryl Saban
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She attended San Diego State University.
Career
She was raised Lutheran. Cheryl worked as a telephone solicitor, waitressed at a barbecue-pit restaurant, and worked summers as a lifeguard at a Navy training center. At age 20, Saban married her first boyfriend and had two daughters.
The couple moved to San Francisco in 1973 and later to Los Angeles in 1975 where Saban worked as a model.
They divorced soon after. In 1979, Playboy included her in a pictorial titled “Disco Queens.
In 1986, she accepted a job as an assistant for Israeli-American Haim Saban. Haim was an Egyptian born Jew who was raised in Israel and later moved to France where he became a millionaire selling recordings of television theme music
He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s where he licensed music for children's cartoons.
They later married. In 2005, Saban earned a doctorate in psychology. Drawing from her challenged life she authored What is Your Self-Worth? A Woman’s Guide to Validation giving all the proceeds to charity.
In September 2012, President Obama nominated Cheryl to be the United States. representative to the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Through a $10 million donation, Saban established the Women's Self-Worth Foundation. The foundation will provide micro-financing programs to women in the United States. and in Israel. Saban is on the board of the Westside Children’s Center where she pledged $250,000 to fund foster-parenting programs.
Saban has done nonprofit work with 50 Ways to Save Our Children, Cooperative American Relief Everywhere United States of America, Children’s Network International, Mercy Corps, and Plan United States of America. Saban is on the board of Trustees of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Free Clinic, and The Marc & Jane Nathanson Mental Health Resource Center at University of California, Los Los Angeles Other affiliations she has are The Everychild Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center, Plan International, Women for Women International, Women's Funding Network, PeaceKeeper Cosmetics, and the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution.
