Eva Andersson-Dubin

Last updated
Eva Andersson-Dubin
Born
Eva Birgitta Andersson

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.

Contents

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]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eva Gabor</span> Hungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)

Eva Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. She voiced Duchess and Miss Bianca in the animated Disney Classics, The Aristocats (1970), The Rescuers (1977), and The Rescuers Down Under (1990). She was popular in her role on the 1965–71 television sitcom Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character Oliver Wendell Douglas. Gabor was an actress in film, on Broadway, and on television. She was also a businesswoman, marketing wigs, clothing, and beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa and Magda Gabor, were also actresses and socialites.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Betty Ford</span> First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977

Elizabeth Anne Ford was the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady, she was active in social policy and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse. Ford also was the second lady of the United States from 1973 to 1974 when her husband was vice president.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helena Christensen</span> Danish model

Helena Christensen is a Danish model. She is a former Victoria's Secret Angel, co-founder and original creative director for Nylon magazine, and she is a supporter of funding for breast cancer organizations and other philanthropic charities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy Robach</span> American television news reporter (born 1973)

Amy Joanne Robach is an American television reporter formerly for ABC News. She is known as co-anchor of 20/20 and as the breaking news anchor/fill-in anchor for Good Morning America. Robach first entered national television by working for NBC News from August 2003 to May 2012. She served as a national correspondent for NBC News from 2003 to 2007 and became co-host of the Saturday edition of NBC's Today as well as anchor on MSNBC from 2007 to 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai</span> American medical school

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eight hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, including Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eileen Ford</span> American model agency executive (1922–2014)

Eileen Cecile Ford was an American modeling agency executive. Along with her husband Gerard "Jerry" Ford, she co-founded Ford Models in 1946, which emerged as one of the earliest and most successful modeling agencies in the mid and late-20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeffrey Epstein</span> American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and sex offender. Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional life as a teacher at the Dalton School despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles before starting his own firm. Epstein cultivated an elite social circle and procured many women and children whom he and his associates sexually abused.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eva Ekvall</span> Venezuelan TV news anchor, and former Miss Venezuela

Eva Mónica Anna Ekvall Johnson was a Venezuelan television news anchor, author, advocate in the fight against breast cancer, fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2000. After winning the competition, she had a brief career in television before being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marisa Acocella Marchetto</span> American cartoonist

Marisa Acocella is an American cartoonist. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling graphic novel Ann Tenna, the graphic memoir Cancer Vixen, and Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? She is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker and a columnist for W magazine's website. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, and O, The Oprah Magazine.

Following Herreys' victory in the previous year, Sweden were the hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985. The venue chosen for the show was the country's second city, Gothenburg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Naomi Campbell</span> English model (born 1970)

Naomi Elaine Campbell is an English model and media personality. Beginning her career at the age of 8, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. She was the first black woman to appear as a model on the covers of Time and Vogue France.

Anna Malova is a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was appointed as Miss Russia 1998 and competed at Miss Universe 1998 and placed Top 10.

Cynara Coomer is the Chief of Breast Surgery and Director of the Comprehensive Breast Center at Staten Island University Hospital and a Fox News medical contributor. She is also an assistant clinical professor of surgery specializing in breast health and breast cancer surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Coomer is the recipient of several awards including the Patient’s Choice Award and America’s Top Surgeons.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Glenn Dubin</span> American hedge fund manager (born 1957)

Glenn Russell Dubin is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and the Principal of Dubin & Co. LP, a private investment company. He is the co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management, an alternative asset management company based in New York City, and a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agneta Frieberg</span>

Agneta Marianne Bengtsdotter Frieberg was a Swedish fashion model and activist. She was known for her extensive editorial and commercial appearances throughout the 1960s, resulting in a decade-long career under the Ford Modeling agency.

Kristi Funk is an American breast cancer surgeon known for her surgical treatment of celebrities Angelina Jolie and Sheryl Crow and her advocacy of whole-food plant-based nutrition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elisa Rush Port</span> American surgery professor

Elisa Rush Port FACS is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as cofounder and director of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Health System, since 2010. She has received four research grants, has served as an investigator or co-investigator on 15 clinical trials, published 44 peer-reviewed articles, and published a total of 12 book chapters and books. She has specialized in sentinel-node biopsy, a diagnostic method that determines cancer stages based on spread to regional lymph nodes, nipple sparing mastectomy, and the use of MRI for breast cancer.

Virginia Louise Giuffre is an American-Australian campaigner who offers support to victims of sex trafficking. She is an alleged victim of the sex trafficking ring of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre created Victims Refuse Silence, a non-profit based in the United States, in 2015, which was relaunched under the name Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) in November 2021. She has given a detailed account to many American and British reporters about her experiences of being trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-Luc Brunel</span> French model scout (1946–2022)

Jean-Luc Didier Henri Brunel was a French model scout. He gained prominence by leading the international modelling agency Karin Models, and founded MC2 Model Management, with financing by Jeffrey Epstein. The subject of a 60 Minutes investigation in 1988, Brunel faced allegations of sexual assault spanning three decades.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tuckwood, Jan (17 October 2018). "Eva Dubin's 3 Tips for Great Health". Lifestyle. Palm Beach Post. United States. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Tuckwood, Jan (11 June 2018). "Dubin Breast Center: Doctor turns her experience into a healing center". Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. Landro, Laura (28 March 2011). "A Cancer Survivor's Prescription for Care". Wall Street Journal.
  4. "Sweden: Melodifestival 1985". Eurovision World.
  5. Kantor, Jodi; McIntire, Mike (13 July 2019). "Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway". New York Times. No. New York. New York, N.Y., United States. The New York Times Company. p. A1. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  6. Briquelet, Kate; Daly, Michael (19 August 2019). "NYC Power Couple's Butler Says Swedish Teen Told Him of Epstein Island Horrors". The Daily Beast. United States. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  7. 1 2 Morris, Meghan; Sullivan, Casey (10 August 2019). "Hedge-fund giant Glenn Dubin and his wife, Eva, told Jeffrey Epstein's probation officer they were '100% comfortable' with the sex offender around their kids. New documents show the extent of the billionaire couple's relationship with Epstein". Business Insider. United States. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  8. Spezzati, Stefania; Wilson, Harry (25 July 2019). "Jes Staley's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Are Latest Headache at Barclays" . United States: Bloomberg News. Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  9. Swaine, Jon (January 13, 2015). "Jeffrey Epstein's donations to young pupils prompts US Virgin Islands review". The Guardian . London, England. Archived from the original on November 10, 2016.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Annette Marie Ekström
Miss Sweden for Miss Universe
1980
Succeeded by