Eva Andersson-Dubin

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Eva Andersson-Dubin
Born
Eva Birgitta Andersson

1961 (age 6263)
Education David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
OccupationDoctor
Employer Mount Sinai Hospital
Spouse
(m. 1994)
Partner(s) Jeffrey Epstein
(early 1980s)
Children3
Awards
Career
Years active1980s - early 1990
Modeling information
Hair colorBlonde
Agency Ford Models [1]

Eva Birgitta Andersson-Dubin (born 1961) is a Swedish physician, former model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is also the founder of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. [1] She is married to hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin. She worked as a model and won Miss Sweden 1980.

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Education and medical career

Born in Sweden, she earned a high school diploma from Östraboskolan (Östrabo school) where she was pre-med and graduated first in her class. While in school, she pursued a career in modeling and in 1980 was named Miss Sweden and placed fourth runner up in the Miss Universe contest. She attended Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm for three and a half years and then transferred to UCLA's School of Medicine where she earned her MD in 1989. She then completed her residency in internal medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York in 1990. [2]

Andersson-Dubin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. In 2004 she joined the Mt. Sinai Board of Trustees and began work to create the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Hospital, which opened in 2011. Eva and her husband donated approximately $19 million and were involved in raising an additional $24 million for the center, where breast cancer diagnosis and treatment are integrated under one roof. According to The Wall Street Journal , as both a patient and a physician, she contributed to many aspects of the center's development. As of 2018, the center had processed 180,000 patient visits. [3] [1]

Ford Modeling career

Gerard W. Ford, who founded and ran Ford Models with his wife Eileen Ford, discovered Eva Andersson while she was walking down the street in New York City. Jerry Ford took Eva Andersson to meet Eileen Ford and Andersson became a Ford Model. In the late 1970s, Eileen Ford the American model agency executive and co-founder of Ford Models described Eva Andersson-Dubin's legs on her modeling card as: "excellent". Later, Eva Andersson was entered into the Miss Sweden contest without her knowledge, and won Miss Sweden 1980. [2] She hosted Melodifestivalen 1985, the annual song competition where the Swedish entry is selected for the Eurovision Song Contest. [4]

Personal life

Eva Andersson dated Jeffrey Epstein. [5] [6] [7] Eva Andersson continued to "socialize with Epstein after his time in jail" [8] for pleading guilty in 2008 to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18. [9] [7]

In the early 1990s, Eva Andersson was seen by her future husband Glenn Dubin for the first time via a modeling photo in the New York Post's Page Six section. The couple was married in 1994 and has three children. [2]

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Annette Marie Ekström
Miss Sweden for Miss Universe
1980
Succeeded by