Nick Loeb

Loeb is the son of John Langeloth Loeb Jr. and his second wife, Meta Martindell Harrsen.[1][2][3] His father was Jewish and his mother an Episcopalian, the faith into which he was baptized.[4][5] 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.[2] His uncle was billionaire Canadian businessman Edgar Bronfman Sr. (who was married to his father's sister).[3] 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[3] where he attended the Collegiate School and Loomis Chaffee School.[1] He also spent three years in Denmark where his father was posted.[1] In 1996, his mother killed her third husband, Jeff Bauer, and then killed herself.[3][6][7] In 1998,[8] Loeb graduated with a B.A. in management and finance from Tulane University.[3]

After college, he worked for Mike Nichols on the film Primary Colors at his uncle's studio Universal Studios[1][3] and then produced and had a featured role in a movie called The Smokers starring Dominique Swain, Thora Birch, and Busy Philipps.[1][9] He was also a producer (along with Barbra Streisand) for the documentary PBS series The Living Century.[10] 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.[8] Here, he claims to have helped to produce the country's first carbon neutral wine.[11]

In 2005, Loeb lost the Delray Beach, Florida city commission race.[12] In 2008, he served as finance co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential run.[1] In 2009, running as a Republican with the support of Giuliani,[13] he abandoned a state Senate campaign because he was going through a divorce from his first wife[12][14] who had just been arrested for a DUI.[13] He used his own money to compensate all the contributors to his campaign.[13] In 2011, Loeb decided against running for the United States Senate due to health issues stemming from severe injuries incurred in a car accident in 2010.[12][15][16][17][18] Loeb describes himself as a "Teddy Roosevelt Republican."[19]

In 2006 he formed Loeb's Foods[8] and in April 2011, he founded the Crunchy Condiment Company,[1] which sells Onion Crunch, a fried onion topping,[8][20][21] with products being sold in over 17,000 locations.[1]

Loeb was married to Swedish model Anna Pettersson but they later divorced.[9] Loeb became engaged to Modern Family star, Colombian-American actress Sofía Vergara in 2012, after two years of dating.[22][23][24] On May 23, 2014, the engagement was called off.[25]

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