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Fredrik Eklund (born April 26, 1977) is a Swedish real estate broker, former IT
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, reality television star, and author. He is best known for starring in the
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reality series, ''
Million Dollar Listing New York ''Million Dollar Listing New York'' is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on March 7, 2012. The show follows the lives of several luxury real estate agents as they represent property owners in New York's five boroughs ...
'' for all of its nine seasons. In 2015, Eklund released his book ''The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone'', which made
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.


Early life and education

Eklund is the son of Klas Eklund, a senior economist at Swedish bank SEB, and brother of author Sigge Eklund. His paternal grandparents were Swedish actors
Bengt Eklund Bengt Gunnar Eklund (18 January 1925 – 19 January 1998) was a Swedish actor. He is well known as Nisse Granqvist in the 1964 TV series '' Vi på Saltkråkan''. Eklund worked for many years at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, but also ...
and Fylgia Zadig.En porrfilmstjärnas bekännelser
Svensk Bokhandel, October 2004, Fredrik Eklund, accessed May 2008,
Eklund had his first American experience as a foreign exchange student in
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, where he attended Edina High School. After finishing high school, Eklund studied at the
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, but never graduated. He has worked for the financial newspaper ''Finanstidningen''. At the age of 23, Eklund founded an Internet company with over 45 employees, and went on to work for the
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SEB in Stockholm, London, Singapore, and Tokyo before beginning his work in New York City.


Film career

In 2004, before arriving in New York City, Eklund acted in a number of pornographic films under the
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Tag Eriksson (or Tag Ericsson). In an interview with ''
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,'' Eklund has said of this period, "It was only a week of my life, accumulated. It was spread out over a few months, so it was a very short period of my life. It was something that I tried and quickly decided that I was done with." Eklund went on to say in the interview that he is proud of who he is, that he does not regret anything, and that his past involvement in the pornographic film industry has not negatively affected his career.


Real estate career

Eklund has closed over five billion dollars in residential real estate. Eklund became Managing Director at the New York City real estate firm CORE Group Marketing and in 2010, alongside his business partner John Gomes, Managing Director at
Prudential Douglas Elliman Douglas Elliman is an American real estate company. Douglas Elliman employs more than 7,000 agents and has 113 offices in New York City and across the country. The company also has a number of subsidiaries related to real estate services such as ...
, the largest real estate brokerage on the East Coast. Eklund also started the top-selling team at Elliman. Eklund is the founder of Eklund Stockholm New York, Scandinavia's most high-end residential real estate brokerage with 50 employees and $1 billion in closed sales in 2014. He is an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York.


''Million Dollar Listing New York''

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'' featured Eklund on the front page of the "Sunday Style" section in November 2010. He is one of five New York City brokers starring in
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's ''
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''. On January 24, 2022, Fredrik Eklund announced his departure from the ''Million Dollar Listing'' franchise.


Personal life

On February 9, 2013, Eklund married artist Derek Kaplan on Little Palm Island in the Florida Keys. The couple lived in New York with their dogs Mouse and Fritzy until 2016. They have since moved to
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, to live in a mansion Eklund purchased. Eklund and Kaplan attempted to have children through surrogacy, but the surrogate suffered a miscarriage. In November 2017, Eklund and Kaplan had twins via surrogate: daughter Milla and son Fredrik Jr.


See also

* LGBT culture in New York City * List of LGBT people from New York City


References


External links

*
The Eklund Gomes Team
- Douglas Elliman *
Eklund Stockholm New York

Fredrik Eklund Keynote Speaker Bio Page
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