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Gabriel de Saint Nicholas
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Gabriel Constantin Zvonimir Maria Italo Reza, Count of Kasa-Hunyady, also styled Gabriel, Count St Nicholas (born 1988), is a Belgian-born business man and socialite. His early career was in public relations and marketing, with FIAT and other companies, and he was public relations manager of the International School of Carthage before becoming an art dealer. "St Nicholas" is an anglicization of the Hungarian Szent Miklós. Early life and family Born in Brussels, Belgium, the son of Andreas, Count of Kasa-Hunyady, a Hungarian nobleman, by his marriage to Erica Veronica von und zu Daun, Kasa-Hunyady was baptized in Rome, with Pamela Churchill Harriman and Élie de Rothschild as godparents. On LinkedIn he states that he was educated at the United Arab Emirates University, the Central St Martins College of Art and Design, and the University of Klagenfurt. Kasa-Hunyady's sister is the former model and socialite Susanne Goulandris, currently married to the Greek shipping billionaire Nicholas Constantine Goulandris and previously married to another Greek shipping heir, Stavros Livanos. Life and career Kasa-Hunyady worked as a public relations and marketing consultant for FIAT and Villa Moda and was later the Public Relations manager of the International School of Carthage, which had been founded by Leila Ben Ali and Suha Arafat in 2005. His friendship with the Ben Ali and Trabelsi families caused a scandal after the Jasmine Revolution of 2010 in Tunisia. Now he works in real estate and fine art. During his career as an art dealer, he has represented Hubertus von Hohenlohe, Rosita, Duchess of Marlborough, and Gloria Vanderbilt, and has curated exhibitions in Athens, Budapest, Lausanne, and Dubai. He is a collector of Islamic Art. Kasa-Hunyady has been a fixture of the jet set and the international scene in Europe and the Middle East during the 2000s. He has appeared on the screen as actor in two movies of Giovanni Veronesi and was frequently featured in the Italian media during the period of 2005-2007. With his sister Susanne Goulandris, Kasa-Hunyady owns the former villa of Princess Soraya of Iran in Marbella, Spain, called Casa Miriam, where they spend the summer months and which has also been featured in the magazine W. Beside this, his family has impressive land holdings in Austria, Hungary, and Romania. Due to his links with the royal family of Serbia, Kasa-Hunyady has participated in Serbian charitable projects. Ancestry
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