Peter M. Brant
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Peter M. Brant (born 1947) is an American newsprint mogul, art collector, and film producer and is the Chairman and C.E.O. of White Birch Paper Company, a private company, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Brant is also the owner of Brant Publications, Inc., which specialises in publishing about art in America and antiques via it's three magazines: INTERVIEW(founded by Andy Warhol), ART IN AMERICA, THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES.
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[edit] White Birch Paper
White Birch Paper is a manufacturer of high-quality newsprint, directory paper, and paperboard with mills in the United States and Canada. As of December 2007, White Birch Paper operates four pulp and paper mills; three in Quebec, Canada and one in the United States. Together, these mills produce more than 1.3 million tons of newsprint and directory paper with up to 50 percent recycled content. Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, White Birch Paper is a privately owned, family-run business that manufactures and ships paper products to customers in North America and all over the world.
[edit] Thoroughbred horse racing
Peter Brant is an owner/breeder of a number of Thoroughbred racehorses, notably Waya (FR) , the winner of the 1979 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse, and Gulch whose wins include the Breeders' Cup Sprint and who was voted the 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse.
[edit] Film Producer
Peter M. Brant was the Executive Producer of the 1996 film Basquiat, the acclaimed 2000 film Pollock, in which his wife, Stephanie Seymour, had a small part, and in 2006 Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film.
[edit] Family
Brant has eight children, five with his first wife, Sandy, from whom he is divorced, and three children with Stephanie Seymour whom he married in 1995. His son Ryan A. Brant founded the computer games company Take-Two Interactive. His son Christopher M. Brant is an Executive Vice President at White Birch Paper.
