Andre Birleanu

Birleanu is the son of Vladimir, a Russian diplomat and international lawyer and Carmen, a Romanian diplomat.[17] Birleanu was born in the Soviet Union, Moscow, but traveled extensively due to his father's work under the Soviet diplomatic corp.[18] In 1996, his mother was working for the United Nations in New York and invited her son to America to attend University.[19] He attended John Jay Criminal Justice Academy, having been awarded a full scholarship. Soon after he was discovered as a model and decided to put it all on stand-by as the traveling didn't allow him to properly attend his classes.[19] He is fluent in English, Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,[20] and still struggling with his native Russian as depicted on America's Smartest Model.[21]

MTV channel named Andre Birleanu "one of the hottest men on television" placing him on their top 10 list.[22] ABC channel named Birleanu one of the top TV bad boys adding that "when Andre Birleanu graced our television sets, he brought sexy back with a villainous twist ".[23] Andre Birleanu was named among other known athletes "top 10 Best Abs in Hollywood" along with Hugh Jackman, Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham,.[24][25] Andre Birleanu was named by People Magazine as one of the sexiest men[26] while the American Broadcasting Company called him one of Top 10 TV Villains.[27]

While attending John Jay Criminal Justice Academy in New York, he was approached by the team of Boss Models; at the same time Karen Lee head of International Scouting at Elite Models New York was pulling him towards John Casablanca.[28]

While residing and filming between New York and Hollywood in 2009, he dated Brazilian model Ana Catharina Soares Jaqueira who is the mother of his first child, Eva Sofia Birleanu.[52] Soon after the birth in Brazil, the relationship ended.[53] In 2012 while shooting on location in São Paulo Brazil. Andre Birleanu dated Brazilian model Eloisa Fontes for two years and in 2014 they got married.[54] Eloisa is the mother of his second daughter Azzura Birleanu,.[9][55][56] In September 2015 Birleanu filed for divorce, won custody away from the mother and since raised his second daughter Azzura Birleanu by himself. In February 2017, Birleanu started dating model Nathalia Oliveira who months after happily announced their Apollo soon coming to life but in September, Nathalia Oliveira had a miscarriage due to her thrombosis condition which Andre said he knew nothing about. Devastated, Andre separated days after Nathalia Oliveira emergency trophoblastic tumor surgical intervention in London at UCLH[57] with her returning to Brazil. In December 2018 start it dating model Cezara Tomenco and in September 2019 on the same day a year later his son Apollo past away, came into the world daughter Aida Birleanu.[58][59][60][61]

In October 2007, there were allegations of sexual misconduct from a model whom he had previously dated but soon after all has been dismissed. The district attorney's office in the Criminal Court of Manhattan dismissed the case and dropped all charges. Birleanu maintained his innocence and wished to counter prosecute for false charges and slanderous allegations.[62] In 2012 Birleanu was the victim of an armed robbery assault while visiting his daughter Eva in Salvador de Bahia; Birleanu fought the knife armed criminals sending two to hospital while third got away, not aware that the Brazilian Military Police were on standby, and recording the entire incident. The recording was used later to obtain a conviction .[63][64]

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