Fredrik Eklund

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Fredrik Eklund, featuring in the October 2005 issue of Scanorama
Fredrik Eklund, featuring in the October 2005 issue of Scanorama

Fredrik Eklund (b. 26 April 1977 in Stockholm) is a New York City real estate broker, who was formerly an Information technology (IT) entrepreneur in his native Sweden, and has also made a name for himself as a gay porn actor (under the pseudonym Tag Eriksson, also written Tag Ericsson) and most recently as a novelist.

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[edit] Early life

He is the son of Klas Eklund, author of several books on economic subjects and a political thriller made into a TV-series, and (as of 2005) chief economist at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. He is a grandson of the famous actor couple Bengt Eklund (1925-1998) and Fylgia Zadig (1921-1994). Fredrik Eklund's older brother Sigge is a writer and web designer who has published three novels.

Fredrik Eklund studied but never graduated at the Stockholm School of Economics, and also worked for the financial newspaper Finanstidningen. During his student days, he was involved in the Stockholm gay club scene, and with some friends started a club named "Billy". In 1999, he founded the internet company Humany, with his father and the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt on the board, among others. Eklund was the CEO and had 45 employees at the age of 23.

With the passing of the IT boom, he started a music production company, Cave Entertainment, for a year and published 8 song writers with #1 hits in Japan, Sweden and on the Billboard Latino list.

[edit] Previous careers

Before he left Sweden for New York City he entered a career in gay pornographic film under the pseudonym Tag Eriksson (or Tag Ericsson). A representative of a company producing gay porn, Jet Set Productions, having seen images of him on the internet, wrote him an e-mail asking if he wanted to make movies with them. After considering the offer for a long time, he decided to accept it "as an experiment", as a way to satisfy his own curiosity, and something to write about. He starred in the movie The Hole (2003), and for this role received a GayVN award for Best Solo scene. He made six other pornographic movies after this. Eklund also appeared as the cover boy for gay pornographic magazine Freshmen March 2003 issue and Playgirl Magazine.

After this stint in pornography, his father arranged for his employment at the SEB investment bank. From there he continued into the real estate business in New York City and became Vice President at the Chelsea office of the company JC DeNiro & Associates. He was nominated as Rookie Of The Year by Real Estate Board Of New York his first year in the business, reportedly selling more than $50,000,000 in real estate. Since 2005 he has been a Vice President at Core Group Marketing. In the presentation of Eklund on the corporate website, he is called "one of the city's best brokers, being quick, efficient and always on top of the market," and has reportedly sold more than $75,000,000 worth of real estate in the last 18 months. In numerous articles he has been linked as the broker of several celebrities including Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

In March 2005, Eklund made his literary top 10 bestselling debut with a novel called Bananflugornas herre ("The Lord of the Fruit Flies"), a story based on his experiences in the gay porn industry. The book was released in Norway and Germany in 2005. Because of the subject matter and the claimed support from his family, it has received a considerable amount of publicity, although both critics and readers found some fault with the authors choice of language. The reviewer in the Swedish daily paper Svenska Dagbladet commented that the novel describes the choice of the author's alter ego to enter a career in porn as "a kind of salvation from a society trying to force him into the TV-night and suburban normality, a way to find the true self". Others have commented on the liberal and unabashed attitude towards pornography of the novel, uncommon in Sweden, where the view of pornography as a form of oppression is dominant in political discourse. An article author in the other large Swedish daily paper, Dagens Nyheter (presumably humorously) commented that he saw Eklund's work as a successful real estate broker as morally more dubious than his work in pornography.

The cover story of the October 2005 issue of Scanorama, Scandinavian Airlines's inflight magazine, is about the life and career of Eklund with the title "Restless in Manhattan".

The cover story titled "Sex Sells" of the February 1, 2007 issue of HX Magazine in New York City, is about Eklund's real estate career.

[edit] Present career

Currently Fredrik Eklund is working as a broker at New York City real estate firm CORE Group Marketing, which he joined as vice president according to the July 13, 2005 issue of Real Estate Weekly.

[edit] Filmography

All with Jet Set Productions

  • The Hole, 2003
  • American Porn Star, 2003
  • Desert Pick-Up 2
  • Training Camp 1, 2003
  • Jet Set Direct
  • Lords II
  • Training Camp 2, 2003
  • Tag Eriksson Collectors Edition

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Awards
Preceded by
Sean Storm
for Open Trench 2: Fuck Fantasies		 GayVN Awards for Best Solo Performance
for The Hole
2004		 Succeeded by
Arpad Miklos/Ricky Martinez
for BuckleRoos 1

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