Several doctors say Gold has overindulged in plastic surgery and now should cut back

By H. Lorren Au Jr., The Orange County Register

Cosmetic doctors have some advice for Jennifer Gold, the former girlfriend of billionaire Donald Bren whose grown children are suing him for $134 million in retroactive child support.

They analyzed the face of 55-year-old Gold in photos taken during her courtroom visits last week. All cited evidence of extensive cosmetic procedures on her face.

Gold, who was Bren’s lover for 13 years, has had plenty of opportunity to become familiar with cosmetic medicine. She was twice engaged to celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Hoefflin of Santa Monica, whose patients included Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson.

Gold’s “overuse of fillers is apparent,” said plastic surgeon Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente and Anaheim. “This is a nasty trend often leading to alien looks. Fish lips and square faces are not natural. The mirrors that these people use are a question for me. Don’t they see what I see?”

Dermatologist Dr. Vince Afsahi of Tustin and Newport Beach was equally blunt.

“My advice is straightforward — stop. No other procedures are needed,” he said. “I would recommend only sunblock and a customized topical skin care routine.”

“From the photos she seems ‘pulled a little’ from perhaps a facelift. The soft forehead and brow area may mean Botox. Her full lips and soft laugh lines could mean either incredible genes or a filler such as Restylane or Juvederm,” Afsahi said.

That’s a dermatologist’s viewpoint. In contrast to his advice, some plastic surgeons advocated a few more treatments for Gold, such as fillers or lasers.

“I would suggest that she work on her skin and polish it up with some fractionated C02 [laser] resurfacing,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Marcel Daniels of Long Beach.

“It looks like she’s had a facelift and possibly a chin implant. She has also had fillers to her lips,” Daniels said.

“She has likely had a great deal of facial cosmetic surgery,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Persky of Encino. “Rhinoplasty [nose job] and lip augmentation for sure. Probable browlift and blepharoplasty [eyelid surgery], chin implant, and facial filler injections.”

“If she were my patient,” Persky said, he would suggest “no more fillers in the lips — hopefully she does not have a permanent filler in her upper lip. I would try to balance her lip size. The lower lip should be larger than the upper lip in a 1.68-to-1 ratio.”

But he wouldn’t urge her to avoid all cosmetic procedures.

“I would try to smooth the chin-to-jawline step-off with filler,” Persky said.