Peter Mark Brant Jr. (born December 30, 1993)Krupnick, Ellie.

, ''The Huffington Post'', December 30, 2011. is an American socialite and model.

Life and career

Peter Mark Brant Jr. was born December 30, 1993, and raised in

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. Brant is the son of businessman and art collector

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and model

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. His paternal grandparents were Bulgarian Jewish immigrants. In 2011, Brant publicly came out as gay. In 2014, Brant was quoted in a ''

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'' profile of him, his brother Harry and mother, Stephanie, about enjoying his clan's notoriety, "We had to do a report about our parents: where they were born, what they did, and all that. Everyone else had to do theirs as homework, but I finished mine before class ended using Wikipedia." Brant attended Bard College in

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. In 2015, Peter along with his younger brother Harry, in collaboration with

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, launched a unisex cosmetics line aimed at the Gender fluid youth movement. In March 2016, Brant was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport after a “drunken ruckus”, during which he assaulted a police officer. Brant's lawyer referred to him as an “idiot.” In January 2021 Peter Jr.'s brother, Harry age 24, died of accidental prescription drug overdose.

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