Peter Brant was a magazine publisher until 2018 and a film producer.
27 Facts About Peter Brant
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Peter Brant was a childhood friend of US president Donald Trump.
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Peter Brant attended the University of Colorado but did not graduate; rather, he left school to work for his father's company.
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Peter Brant went to work at Peter Brant-Allen Industries, a paper conversion company co-founded by his father.
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Peter Brant expanded SP Newsprint into paper recycling operating 23 recycling facilities through its SP Recycling unit.
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Peter Brant emerged from bankruptcy in January 2012 and closed its main pulp and paper mill in Quebec City, sending home more than 600 workers.
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In 2012, Peter Brant pledged a portion of his art collection as security to purchase White Birch Paper out of bankruptcy in partnership with Black Diamond Capital Management LLC for $94.5 million in cash and $78 million in debt.
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The latter had run an article asking whether the Peter Brant Foundation was a tax scam or an art investment vehicle.
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Peter Brant was the owner and chairman of Peter Brant Publications, Inc.
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Peter Brant was a producer of L'Amour and Andy Warhol's Bad.
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Peter Brant invested $800,000 in Bad, and when the film was a commercial failure it caused a rift in their friendship.
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Peter Brant picked out some prints, and now we're all settled with him on the money he invested in Bad and he never has to come back.
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Peter Brant was an executive producer of the award-winning films Basquiat and Pollock.
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Peter Brant was co-producer of the Peabody- and Emmy-award-winning PBS documentary, Andy Warhol: A Documentary.
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Peter Brant is one of the world's Top 200 art collectors.
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Peter Brant bought his first pieces of art after turning an $8,000 investment into several hundred thousand dollars as a young man.
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Peter Brant is one of the largest collector's of Warhol's art.
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Peter Brant is a member of the Advisory Council of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
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Peter Brant's collection is on display to the public at the two locations of the Peter Brant Foundation Art Study Center, in Greenwich, Connecticut and the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Peter Brant's collection includes numerous works by Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Dan Flavin, Glenn Ligon, and Cady Noland.
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Peter Brant was a member of the partnership who owned Classic winner Swale, who won both the 1984 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes and was American Champion Three-Year-Old Colt that year.
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Peter Brant was the breeder of 1995 Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch.
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Peter Brant is a polo player and at one time was the highest-rated amateur player in the US Peter Brant is the co-founder of the Greenwich Polo Club, the Saratoga Polo Association, and the Bridgehampton Polo Club.
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On July 14,1995, Peter Brant married model Stephanie Seymour outside of Paris, with gallery owner Tony Shafrazi serving as best man at the ceremony.
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Peter Brant had eight biological children with his two wives, and one stepchild.
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In 1990, Peter Brant was investigated for tax evasion resulting from having his company pay for $1 million in personal expenditures.
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Peter Brant pled guilty to charges of failing to keep records and was sentenced to three months in a federal prison and $200,000 in fines.