Eva Birgitta Andersson-Dubin (born 1961) is a Swedish physician, former model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is also the founder of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She is married to

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billionaire

Glenn Dubin Glenn Russell Dubin (born April 13, 1957) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and the Principal of Dubin & Co. LP, a private investment company. He is the co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management, founder of Engineers Gate, and a fo ...

. She worked as a model and won

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1980.

Education and medical career

Born in Sweden, she earned a high school diploma from Östraboskolan (Östrabo school) where she was pre-med and graduated first in her class. While in school, she pursued a career in modeling and in 1980 was named

and placed fourth runner up in the Miss Universe contest. She attended

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for three and a half years and then transferred to UCLA's School of Medicine where she earned her MD in 1989. She then completed her residency in internal medicine at

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in New York in 1990. Andersson-Dubin was diagnosed with

breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a Breast lump, lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, Milk-rejection sign, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipp ...

in 2002. In 2004 she joined the Mt. Sinai Board of Trustees and began work to create the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Hospital, which opened in 2011. Eva and her husband donated approximately $19 million and were involved in raising an additional $24 million for the center, where breast cancer diagnosis and treatment are integrated under one roof. According to ''

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'', as both a patient and a physician, she contributed to many aspects of the center's development. As of 2018, the center had processed 180,000 patient visits.

Ford Modeling career

Gerard W. Ford, who founded and ran

Ford Models Ford Models, originally the Ford Modeling Agency, is an American international modeling agency based in New York City. It was established in 1946 by Eileen Ford and her husband Gerard W. Ford. History 20th century Eileen and Jerry began the bu ...

with his wife

Eileen Ford Eileen Cecile Ford (née Otte; March 25, 1922 – July 9, 2014) was an American modeling agency executive. Along with her husband Gerard W. Ford, Gerard "Jerry" Ford, she co-founded Ford Models in 1946, which emerged as one of the earliest and m ...

, discovered Eva Andersson while she was walking down the street in New York City. Jerry Ford took Eva Andersson to meet Eileen Ford and Andersson became a Ford Model. In the late 1970s,

the American model agency executive and co-founder of

described Eva Andersson-Dubin's legs on her modeling card as: "excellent". Later, Eva Andersson was entered into the Miss Sweden contest without her knowledge, and won Miss Sweden 1980. She hosted

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1985, the annual song competition where the Swedish entry is selected for the

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Personal life

Eva Andersson dated

Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( , ; January 20, 1953August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional career as a teacher at the Dalton School, despite lacking a col ...

. Eva Andersson continued to "socialize with Epstein after his time in jail" for pleading guilty in 2008 to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a female under the age of 18. In the early 1990s, Eva Andersson was seen by her future husband Glenn Dubin for the first time via a modeling photo in the ''

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s Page Six section. The couple was married in 1994 and has three children.

References

External links

Unsealed Court documents from Giuffre v. Maxwell
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