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• n  someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding
• n  the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically

• For self-help svengali Joey Grasso (Salvatore Coco), she is an empty vessel he can steer to stardom.
• For self-help svengali Joey Grasso (Salvatore Coco), she is an empty vessel he can steer to stardom.

• Svengali

News & Articles

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• Hideo Kojima Looking for Studio to Remake the Original 'Metal Gear Solid'
  by Joseph Leray According to an article in GameReactor EU, mystery man, mad genius, and games industry svengali Hideo Kojima is currently looking for a third-party studio to remake the original "Metal Gear Solid" using his company's new Fox Engine. The revelation came as part of a roundtable discussion at E3, when a fan asked Kojima [...]
  June 26, 2013 - MTV

Quotes

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• Robert Novak in Washington Post
  His influence on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is so surprising that critics use the word Svengali,columnist Robert D. Novak wrote in April 2006.
• Justin Timberlake in Independent
  Timberlake said last year of his time in *NSync that "I was being monetarily raped by a Svengali".