Eva Andersson-Dubin | |
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| Born | Eva Birgitta Andersson 1961 (age 63–64) Uddevalla, Sweden |
| Education | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
| Occupation | Doctor |
| Employer | Mount Sinai Hospital |
| Spouse | |
| Partner(s) | Jeffrey Epstein (early 1980s) |
| Children | 3 |
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Career | |
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| Years active | 1980s - early 1990 |
| Modeling information | |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Agency | Ford Models [1] |
Eva Birgitta Andersson-Dubin (born 1961) is a Swedish physician, former model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She is 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.
Born in Sweden, Andersson-Dubin earned a high school diploma from Östraboskolan (Östrabo school) in Uddevalla, 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. She 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]
Gerard W. Ford, the co-founder of Ford Models, discovered Andersson while she was walking down the street in New York City. He took her to meet his co-founder and wife, Eileen Ford, and Andersson became a Ford Model. 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]
Andersson dated Jeffrey Epstein from 1981 to 1990. [5] [6] [7] In the early 1990s, she was first seen by her future husband Glenn Dubin in a modeling photo in the New York Post's Page Six section. The couple married in 1994 and have three children. [2] Jeffrey Epstein was her children’s godfather. [8] Andersson-Dubin continued to "socialize with Epstein after his time in jail" [9] for pleading guilty in 2008 to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a female under the age of 18. [10] [7]
