John Casablancas was an American modeling agent and scout who founded Elite Model Management.
12 Facts About John Casablancas
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John Casablancas was the father of the Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas.
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John Casablancas was born in Manhattan, New York City, on December 12,1942.
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John Casablancas was the youngest of three children of Fernando and Antonia Casablancas, a banker and former model, respectively, and grandson of Spanish textile machinery inventor Fernando Casablancas Planell.
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John Casablancas's parents had left Spain during the 1930s to escape the Spanish Civil War, and the family subsequently lived in Argentina, Mexico, and France, among other countries.
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John Casablancas continued his education at several universities in Europe without graduating.
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In collaboration with a fellow Le Rosey alumnus, John Casablancas founded Elite Model Management, a modeling agency, in Paris in 1972.
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John Casablancas had previously run the Paris-based agency Model Agency Elysee 3, which he founded in 1969.
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John Casablancas is credited for developing the concept of supermodel in the popular culture, turning models into celebrities that were featured in mainstream media.
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John Casablancas had one child with Marie-Christine, Cecile, who was born in 1969 in France.
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John Casablancas was frank about his preference for girls of only just legal age.
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In 1993, the 50-year-old John Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonca de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil.