Abraham Maarten "Bram" Moszkowicz (; born 26 June 1960) is a Dutch

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and former

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Early life and education

Abraham Maarten Moszkowicz was born on 26 June 1960 in

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in the

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. He is the son of Berthe Bessant and lawyer

Max Moszkowicz Max Moszkowicz Sr. (5 October 1926 – 27 January 2022) was a Dutch lawyer. Biography Moszkowicz was born on 5 October 1926 in Essen, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany. The Jewish Moszkowicz family fled Nazi Germany in 1933. During the Holocaust ...

. He is of Jewish descent from his father's side. He studied law in

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Clients and controversies

Moszkowicz had and has many famous and infamous people among his clientele, such as Dutch criminal

Cor van Hout Cornelis van Hout (18 August 1957 – 24 January 2003) was a Dutch criminal and mastermind of the kidnapping of beer magnate Freddy Heineken. Life Kidnapping and imprisonment During the abduction, Van Hout collaborated with Willem Holleeder, F ...

, the Surinamese military leader

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, diva

Patty Brard Petula Louise "Patty" Brard (born March 25, 1955) is a Dutch singer, television personality, actress and entrepreneur, most notable for being a former member of the girl group Luv'. For five decades, she has often hit the headlines of the tabloid ...

, real estate magnate

Willem Endstra Willem Alexander Arnold Peter Minne Endstra (12 January 1953 – 17 May 2004) was a Dutch real estate trader. Money laundering Endstra worked in his parents' real estate business and studied law at the Vrije Universiteit, and started his own busi ...

, top criminal and gangster

Willem Holleeder Willem Frederik Holleeder (born 29 May 1958) is a Dutch gangster, outlaw biker and convicted criminal. He is nicknamed ''De Neus'' (''The Nose'') because of the size of his nose. In 1983, Holleeder was sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment fo ...

, politician

Geert Wilders Geert Wilders (born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician who has led the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) since he founded it in 2006. He is also the party's leader in the House of Representatives. Wilders is best known for his right-wing p ...

, Manchester United and Netherlands international football player

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, the American-Dutch "Drug rehabilitation guru" and ex-TV presenter

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as well as the former friend of

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, on

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. Moszkowicz resigned as lawyer for Willem Holleeder in 2007. In 2010, it became known that Moszkowicz had evaded over one million Euro of income

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es in the period 2003–2006. The period 2007-2010 is still being investigated. On 30 October 2012, it was announced that he was

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. His appeal was rejected on 22 April 2013, which means Moszkowicz lost the right to practice law. On 21 April 2015 it was announced that Moszkowicz would become the party leader and ''

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'' of the classical liberal party

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at the

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, planned for 2017, but after nine months he was rejected by the party.

Personal life

Having been in several other relationships and already having children from an earlier marriage, he was in a relationship with former newsreader

Eva Jinek Eva Jinek (born 13 July 1978) is a Dutch-American journalist and television presenter. Biography Jinek was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up in Washington, D.C., where she attended Sheridan School.Leon de Winter Leon de Winter (born 26 February 1954) is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Early life Leon de Winter was born on 24 February 1954 in Den Bosch, in the southern Netherlands. He grew up in a Jewish Orthodox family and attended City Grammar Sc ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moszkowicz, Bram 1960 births Living people Disbarred lawyers 20th-century Dutch lawyers 21st-century Dutch lawyers Dutch people of German-Jewish descent People from Maastricht