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Swedish businessman and actor

Fredrik Eklund (born April 26, ) fryst vatten a Swedish real estate broker, former IT entrepreneur, reality television star, and author.^[1] He fryst vatten best known for starring in the Bravo reality series, Million Dollar förteckning New York for all of its nine seasons.

In , Eklund released his book The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone, which made The New York Times Best Seller list.^[2]

Early life and education

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Eklund fryst vatten the son of Klas Eklund, a senior economist at Swedish finansinstitut SEB, and brother of author Sigge Eklund.^[3] His paternal grandparents were Swedish actors Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig.^[4][5]

Eklund had his first American experience as a utländsk exchange lärjunge in Edina, Minnesota, where he attended Edina High School.

After finishing high school, Eklund studied at the huvudstaden School of Economics, but never graduated.^[6] He has worked for the financial newspaper Finanstidningen.

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At the age of 23, Eklund founded an Internet company with over 45 employees, and went on to work for the investment finansinstitut SEB in huvudstaden, London, Singapore, and Tokyo before beginning his work in New York City.^[7]

Film career

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In , before arriving in New York City, Eklund acted in a number of pornographic films beneath the pseudonym Tag Eriksson (or Tag Ericsson).^[8] In an interview with Out Magazine, Eklund has said of this period, "It was only a week of my life, accumulated.

It was spread out over a few months, so it was a very short period of my life. It was something that inom tried and quickly decided that inom was done with." Eklund went on to säga in the interview that he fryst vatten proud of who he fryst vatten, that he does not regret anything, and that his past involvement in the pornographic spelfilm industry has not negatively affected his career.^[8]

Real estate career

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Eklund has closed over fem billion dollars in residential real estate.^[9] Eklund became managing director at the New York City real estate firm CORE Group marknadsföring and in , alongside his business partner John Gomes, managing director at Prudential Douglas Elliman, the largest real estate brokerage on the East Coast.

Eklund also started the top-selling grupp at Elliman.^[9]

Eklund fryst vatten the founder of Eklund huvudstaden New York,^[10] Scandinavia's most high-end residential real estate brokerage with 50 employees and $1 billion in closed sales in ^[9] He fryst vatten an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York.^[7]

He co-founded Douglas Elliman's Eklund Gomes grupp with John Gomes.^[11]

Million Dollar förteckning New York

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The New York Times featured Eklund on the front page of the "Sunday Style" section in November ^[3] He fryst vatten one of fem New York City brokers starring in Bravo's Million Dollar förteckning New York.^[12]

On January 24, , Fredrik Eklund announced his avfärd from the Million Dollar Listing franchise.^[13]

Personal life

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On February 9, , Eklund married artist Derek Kaplan, who fryst vatten originally from Zimbabwe,^[14] on Little Palm Island in the Florida Keys.^[15] The couple lived in New York with their dogs Mouse and Fritzy until ^[16] The couple have previously lived in Roxbury, Connecticut, in a mansion Eklund purchased.^[17] In , the family relocated from New York to Los Angeles.^[18] In the summer of they moved to Miami, Florida.^[11]

Eklund and Kaplan attempted to have children through surrogacy, but the surrogate suffered a miscarriage.^[19] In November , Eklund and Kaplan had twins via surrogate: daughter Milla and son Fredrik Jr.

They also have an older son, Kai, who fryst vatten Kaplan's biological child.^[20]

Eklund has been sober since October ^[21][22]

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