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Nicholas Mears Loeb August 2, 1975 United States |
Nationality | American |
Education | B.A. Tulane University |
Occupation | Businessman |
Spouse(s) | Anna Pettersson (divorced) |
Partner(s) | Sofía Vergara 2010–2014 |
Parent(s) | Meta Martindell Harrsen John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. |
Family | Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (Uncle) |
Nicholas Mears "Nick" Loeb (born August 2, 1975) is the son of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr., and scion of both the Loeb family (founders of the brokerage firm Loeb, Rhoades & Co.) and Lehman family (founders of the global financial services firm Lehman Brothers).
Nick Loeb is the son of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. and his second wife, Meta Martindell Harrsen. His father was Jewish and his mother an Episcopalian, the faith into which he was baptized. His father is a former United States Ambassador to Denmark (1981–1983) and served as a Delegate to the United Nations (1984). He has one half-sister from his father's first marriage to Nina Sundby, Alexandra Loeb Driscoll. His uncle was billionaire Canadian businessman Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (who was married to his father's sister). His parents divorced when he was one year old and he was raised by his father on the Upper East Side of New York City where he attended the Collegiate School and Loomis Chaffee School. He also spent three years in Denmark where his father was posted. In 1996, his mother killed her third husband, Jeff Bauer, and then killed herself. In 1998, Loeb graduated with a B.A. in management and finance from Tulane University.
After college, he worked for Mike Nichols on the film Primary Colors at his uncle's studio Universal Studios and then produced and had a featured role in a movie called The Smokers starring Dominique Swain, Thora Birch, and Busy Phillips. He was also a producer (along with Barbra Streisand) for the documentary PBS series The Living Century. He moved to Florida and worked with Lehman Brothers and later founded Carbon Solutions America, which provides climate change advisory services to corporate and government clients. Here, he claims to have helped to produce the country’s first carbon neutral wine.