John Casablancas

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John Casablancas (born December 22, 1942) is the founder and former Chairman of the Elite Model Agency Group, and founder of the world's largest modelling school. Casablancas was born in Manhattan, New York. He is the father of The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas.

He was born to Spanish parents from Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain and grew up in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. He was educated mainly in Switzerland.

Casablancas worked in a variety of jobs including managing the marketing division of the Coca-Cola franchise in the northeastern part of Brazil. He opened his first modelling agency in Paris, France and two years later created Elite Model Management. He reportedly left Elite Modeling in 2000, and now heads the John Casablancas Career Center, a modeling and acting school, which has franchises in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Italy, and Indonesia, as well as in the United States -- in Florida, New York, New Mexico, Washington, California and Arizona. As owner of this company, he used to state the advantages of the contacts he had with the Elite Modeling agency.

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Here's a picture of him [1].