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Salon owner and celebrity hairdresser John Sahag passed away on June 15 after waging a three-year battle with cancer. Sahag, who tended the tresses of such luminaries as Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker, and who worked with leading photographers including Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Albert Watson, got his start in the biz at age 14 in Australia. Four years later, he moved to Paris to refine his skills and focus on a career as an editorial stylist. After receiving an editorial credit in Italian Vogue, his career really took off. He moved to New York, where he opened a namesake salon and developed his signature dry-cutting technique. In 1990, the year his product line launched, he was credited for giving Demi Moore the famous cropped cut she sported in Ghost. Referred to by many as the "Mick Jagger of hair," Sahag balanced life in the salon with his love of editorial shoots, backstage work at the collections, commercial campaigns and, from time-to-time, working with American Salon magazine. Sahag is survived by his parents, Atum and Hatum Jamgotchian; Mary, his sister; and three brothers, Hoveness, Andre and Jack Jamgotchian. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the American Cancer Society.