Simonetta Lein (born February 7, 1983) is a TV personality, TV host, model and businesswoman. Lein has won the Celebrity Media Personality & Influencer of the year 2022 award through the World Influencers Bloggers Award at the

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. She has modeled for designer Stevie Boi during

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and for Richie Rich at

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Career

Lein is a former columnist for Vanity Fair Italy,

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, and La Voce Di New York. She has also written for Forbes, Entrepreneur and Huffington Post USA. She has written a book, Everything Is Possible: A Novel About the Power of Dreams, which was published by

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in 2013. As a model, she has been featured in

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, Vanity Fair Italy and

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. Simonetta has modelled for several fashion designers and photographers including Bruno Oliviero and

Giovanni Gastel Giovanni Gastel (27 December 1955 – 13 March 2021) was an Italian photographer. Biography Giovanni Gastel began to approach photography in the early 1970s. In 1981, he started working for numerous fashion magazines, including ''Vogue'', '' ...

. She is the CEO and co-founder of Ausonia Partners, a media and public relations agency headquartered in Pennsylvania. She has also been cited as one of the top 100 fashion and social media influencers. In 2017, Lein starred in the pilot of an Influencer Reality Show - Brick & Portal Weekend: NYC Chapter with Anjelika Kour and Heidi Nezarudin.

The Wishwall

In 2015, Lein founded The Wishwall Foundation, an initiative to address social causes like literacy, poverty, women's safety and to help make wishes come true. In 2018, her work at the foundation was extended to a television program called The Wishwall, produced by award winning producer and director Rocco Leo Gaglioti of the FNL Network and is now available worldwide on all smart TVs and Apple iOS and Android apps. Lein is a former columnist for Vanity Fair Italy, D di Repubblica, and La Voce Di New York. She has been featured in '' Vogue Italy'', '' Vanity Fair Italy'',

, and more.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lein, Simonetta 1983 births Living people 21st-century Italian women writers

Lein Lein may refer to: People with that name *Allen Lein (1913–2003), American endocrinologist and medical school professor *Anatoly Lein (1931–2018), Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster * Lars O. Lein (1874–1958), American farmer and politici ...

Italian female models