Andre Birleanu is a Russian-Romanian supermodel and executive producer involved in numerous campaigns and international fashion publications. He is a television personality featured on MTV and Vh1 channel's America's Smartest Model in over 42 countries internationally. Birleanu was featured in many global campaigns throughout the years including for Dolce & Gabbana with actress Monica Bellucci, daughter Azzura and ex-wife Eloisa Birleanu. As executive producer, Birleanu has created fashion covers and editorials for the publications Vogue, Elle, GQ, Schön, L'Officiel, Hunger, Numéro, USED, Tatler, S Magazine, and Harper's Bazaar.
Early life
Birleanu is the son of Vladimir Simonov, a Russian diplomat, international lawyer and a forensic professor and Carmen Bîrleanu, a Romanian diplomat. Birleanu was born in the Soviet Union, Moscow, but traveled extensively due to his father's work under the Soviet diplomatic corp. In 1996, his mother was working for the United Nations in New York and invited her son to America to attend University. 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. He is fluent in English, Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and still struggling with his native Russian as depicted on America's Smartest Model.
Public image
channel named Andre Birleanu "one of the hottest men on television" placing him on their top 10 list. 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 ". Andre Birleanu was named among other known athletes "top 10 Best Abs in Hollywood" along with Hugh Jackman, Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham,. Andre Birleanu was named by People Magazine as one of the sexiest men while the American Broadcasting Company called him one of Top 10 TV Villains.
Birleanu is the founder and executive producer of Supreme Rocket Productions, a multi-purpose European corporation that since September 2011 has expanded into a variety of creative industries, making international fashion covers, software implementation in fashion industry, representing artists like Rothko, Van Gogh, Ruben, Pollock managing careers of olympic cyclist champion Kim van Dijk, British welterweight boxing champion Dudley O'Shaughnessy, actor and MMA fighter Florian Munteanu and also high-end fashion professionals. Since December 2016 Birleanu is also the founder and chief financial officer of Supreme Global a British corporation.
Birleanu has been represented by fashion agencies DNA Models, Next Models, Q Management, Boss Models, Karin Models, L'Agence Models, Mc2 Management, Metropolitan, Wilhelmina, Major Models and for commercial work by Innovative Artists in Hollywood.
Personal life
While residing and filming between New York and Hollywood in 2009, he dated Brazilian model Ana Catharina Jaqueira who is the mother of his first child, a daughter. Soon after the birth in Brazil, the relationship ended. In 2012 while shooting on location in São Paulo Brazil, Andre Birleanu discovered and started dating, now his wife, Eloisa Birleanu with whom he married in 2014 and gave him his second daughter Azzura Birleanu,. In September 2015 Birleanu filed for divorce.
Controversy
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. 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.
