Miami is home to some of the most influential people in the world. Our annual Haute 100 list celebrates the city’s top billionaires, athletes, thinkers, power couples, philanthropists, originators, hoteliers, designers, entrepreneurs and entertainers.
Ray & Shannon Allen
CATEGORY: Athletes, Philanthropists
Company: The Miami Heat
Industry: Basketball
What Makes them Haute:
The Miami Heat player starred in Spike Lee’s award winning, He Got Game, played for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics and Milwaukee Bucks and took home an Olympic gold medal in men’s basketball in 2000 for Team USA. He led the Miami Heat to win the Championships in 2013. His wife Shannon, star of cooking show, The Pre-Game Meal, is a crusader to cure Type 1 Diabetes. Together, she and the semi-retired ball-player raised millions of dollars and awareness for the cause and hope to inspire people to eat better and live healthier, with their new, disruptive food concept, “grown,” which will sprout in Miami, late summer of 2015.
Michael Bay
CATEGORY: Entertainers
Company: Bay Films
Industry: Film
WHAT MAKES him HAUTE:
He is one of Hollywood’s most bankable directors, with blockbuster movies including the Transformers franchise, Pain & Gain, Bad Boys II, and Bad Boys (all three of which were filmed in Miami), Pearl Harbor and The Rock among his list of credits. His two production companies, Bay Films and Platinum Dunes, have earned global ticket sales surpassing the $7 billion mark. Each film is loaded with his distinctive brand of awe-inspiring action and special visual effects. The Hollywood power player uses his home on North Bay Road in Miami Beach as a much-needed sanctuary after the draining filming process.
The Ardid Family
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Key International
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes Them Haute:
The Ardid family owns realestate development firm Key International. The family at the company includes Vice Presidents Diego, Inigo Ardid, and CEO Jose Ardid. Jose Ardid, the prominent architect-turned-developer, is behind Florida’s most luxurious properties, such as South Beach Marriott, Eden Roc, Financial Federal, Sunset Plaza and Brickell Mar. Key International has developed South Florida’s high-end real estate properties since the 1970s.
Jeff & Yolanda Berkowitz
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: Berkowitz Development Group
Industry: Retail Development
What Makes Them Haute:
He is President and Founder of Berkowitz Development Group, one of the premier retail development companies in South Florida, lauded for constructing award-winning buildings. He is currently working on SkyRise Miami, an iconic 1000-foot entertainment/amusement tower that promises to be a Miami landmark. His wife, Yolanda, is known for her community involvement as a board member for organizations including Voices For Children Foundation, United Way of Miami Dade, and as a sponsor for and past Chair of the United Way’s Mayor’s Ball and the Miami Children’s Museum’s Annual Gala. Jeff serves as Chairman of the Museum’s Board.
Micky and Madeleine Arison
CATEGORY: Billionaires
Company: Carnival Corporation, Miami Heat
Industry: Cruise
What Makes them Haute:
Micky weighs in as Florida’s wealthiest resident with an estimated worth of $6.5 billion. The Carnival Corporation Chairman and CEO operate 11 different cruise lines, including luxury lines Seabourn and Holland America. He is also Managing General Partner of the Miami Heat. In 2014, Arison reached a deal with the City of Miami keeping the Heat in the American Airlines Arena through 2035.
Roy & Lea Black
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A.
Industry: Law/Philanthropy
What Makes Them Haute:
He made a name for himself as one of the best civil and criminal defense lawyers in the country, representing superstar athletes, political pundits, and Hollywood celebrities. She is a powerhouse fundraiser for at-risk youth and a businesswoman in her own right with a book, skincare, handbag, and jewelry line on theworldofleablack.com. The couple also host The Blacks Annual Gala to raise money for the Consequences Program. Together they have raised well over $12 million for the cause, which strives for social justice for underprivileged youth.
Adrienne Arsht
CATEGORY: Philanthropists
Company: Adrienne Arsht Center
Industry: Performing Arts
What Makes her Haute:
As former Chairman of the Board of TotalBank of Miami, Arsht grew the bank to $1.4 billion in assets before selling to Banco Popular Español in 2007. This is when she began dedicating her life to philanthropy. The first woman to join the Million Dollar Roundtable of United Way of Miami-Dade in 2004, she gifted $6 million to the University of Miami and $30 million to the Adrienne Arsht Center. Her generosity is not limited to southern Florida. Large donations in the northeast include $10 million to New York’s Lincoln Center, $5 million to the Kennedy Center, and $5 million to the Atlantic Council for a new center on Latin America in Washington D.C.
Wayne Boich
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Boich Group
Industry: Mining
What Makes Them Haute:
Wayne Boich is Chairman and CEO of the Boich Group of Companies. Mr. Boich joined the company in 1999 and worked in all facets of the company before becoming CEO in 2005. Under Mr. Boich’s leadership, the company has grown significantly and into the international market, with the acquisition of Signal Peak Energy in July 2008. Signal Peak is one of the largest underground coal mines in the world.
Raul Casares
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: RC Aluminum Industries
Industry: Construction
What Makes him Haute:
Casares arrived in Miami from Cuba in the 1950s and founded RC Aluminum in the early 1990s. He spent the subsequent two decades building RC Aluminum into a powerhouse, with more than $100 million in revenue each year. Now under Casares’ direction, RC Aluminum continues to invest in researching the very best aluminum and glass technology so that every shutter, window, or door stamped RC promises safety and style. His most recent projects include the Owensboro Medical Health System, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center, and Aventura Optima Plaza.
Norman Braman
CATEGORY: Billionaires
Company: Braman Enterprises
Industry: Automobile
What Makes him Haute:
Braman Motors is where many of the Haute 100-listers turn to purchase their luxury rides, such as Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, Bugattis, BMWs, Minis, and Cadillacs. Braman not only owns 23 auto dealerships in Florida and Colorado, but he is also an avid art collector. His portfolio of works by Picasso, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and other acclaimed artists helped propel him to billionaire status in 2008. He and his wife, Irma, are funding the new Institute of Contemporary Art in the Design District.
Wayne & Arlene Chaplin
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Southern Wine & Spirits of America/YogArt (Darlee Productions)
Industry: Liquor & Wine Distribution
What Makes Them Haute:
Wayne Chaplin serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Wine & Spirits of America. Chaplin is also active in the social and philanthropic circuits as well, volunteering in various leadership activities at his alma mater. He serves on the University of Miami’s Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee, as well as Chairman of the Board of Mount Sinai Medical Center of Miami Beach. His wife, Arlene, is also involved in the development of community- bettering initiatives such as YogArt and Buddhas and Bellinis. She also sits on the Perez Art Museum’s Board of Trustees.
Romero Britto
CATEGORY: Artists
Company: Romero Britto
Industry: Art
What Makes him Haute:
Britto’s work is recognized around the world; over 20 cities have his sculptures as permanent installations. He was even invited to display his iconic works of art at the Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. Britto was commissioned to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in honor of the 60th anniversary of her reign. An artistic activist for charitable organizations worldwide, Britto also donates to over 250 charities a year. In 2014, he was an official FIFA World Cup Ambassador for the games in Brazil.
Shayne & Felix Cohen
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: Oxygene and Mini Oxygene
Industry: Retail
What Makes Them Haute:
This duo is behind one of Miami’s most expertly curated retail destinations, Oxygene and Mini Oxygene, in the Bal Harbour Shops. Truly a family affair, both sides of this power couple have been instrumental to the store that dresses Miami’s most discerning customers and hosts VIP designer trunk shows. Felix was also the mastermind behind 3 Indian Creek Drive, a sprawling 30,000-square foot residential property.
Michael Capponi
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Capponi Group Corporation
Industry: Real Estate/Nightlife/Technology
What Makes him Haute:
Michael Capponi has segued from being one of Miami’s best promoters to being one of its great developers, humanitarians, and businessmen; Capponi runs Capponi Shear Construction, a group that builds and remodels both high-end residential and commercial properties. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Capponi flew over with a plane-load of supplies and has since returned over 60 times and formed both the Jacmel Advisory Group and the Haiti Empowerment Mission in the process. Most recently, Capponi teamed up with Gideon Kimbrell to create InList, a members-only mobile app that simplifies the booking process for upscale nightlife reservations, as well as other desirable entertainment experiences.
Ugo & Sara Colombo
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: CMC Group/NEST
Industry: Fashion, Real Estate
What Makes Them Haute:
Ugo has created some of Miami’s most recognizable structures as President of CMC Group and founder of Glasswall, LLC, which specializes in impact-resistant window systems for high-rise properties. Colombo is recognized for his Midas touch, bringing exceptional luxury properties and high-res residential buildings to Miami, including his current project, the Brickell Flatiron in downtown. His wife Sara’s interior design shop, NEST, specializes in high-style products for the home presented with a European flair that is reflective of her innate sense of style.
Sean “Diddy” Combs
CATEGORY: Entertainers
Company: Bad Boy Entertainment
Industry: Entertainment
What Makes him Haute:
The Grammy and Oscar award winning artist and producer is well known for his business ventures, especially in the music industry. The Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide umbrella includes Bad Boy Records, Sean John and Sean by Sean Combs clothing line, a movie production company, Ciroc Vodka, and premium tequila brand, DeLeon, which he acquired in 2014.
WILLIAM DEAN
Company: M.C. Dean, Inc.
Industry:Power and Technology Engineering and Systems Integration
What Makes Them Haute:
He is the CEO of M.C. Dean, Inc. one of the largest private power and technology engineering firms in the nation. With 25 offices worldwide, M.C. Dean, Inc. specializes in infrastructure such as rail, healthcare, utilities, and data centers. Projects include SOUTHCOM headquarters in Doral, the Miami FBI Field Office, the Port of Miami Tunnel, the Pentagon and the Boeing Dreamliner factory. He restored and improved the historic SS Kresge estate on Pinetree Drive in Miami Beach. The estate boasts 700 ft of Indian Creek waterfront and Mr. Dean opens the doors in support of numerous great causes, recently hosting Mourning Family Foundation, Little Lighthouse Foundation, and The Paradise Fund.
Rick de la Croix
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Hublot
Industry: Watch
What Makes him Haute:
Hublot Americas’ exclusive partner, Rick de la Croix, opened the Hublot Boutique in Bal Harbour. Hublot has become the official watch of choice for the Miami Heat, with Dwyane Wade and Ray Allen-inspired timepieces to benefit diabetes research. The Englishman worked for Tag Heuer in Geneva and The Dixie Group, before starting his own distribution company with a cache of renowned brands, including Hublot, HYT, Zenith, and Graham.
EDGARDO AND ANA CRISTINA DEFORTUNA
CATEGORY: Originators / Power Couples
Company: Fortune International Group
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes Them Haute:
Fortune International Group President and Founder Edgardo Defortuna founded the company in 1983, and in 1998, he and wife, Ana Cristina, launched their luxury development arm. Fortune is a leader in high-end luxury real estate in Miami, with a good reach into South America and Europe, shaping Miami’s international real estate landscape into what it is today with stellar projects like The Ritz-Carlton Residences Sunny Isles Beach, Jade Signature, and Auberge Beach Residences and Spa in Fort Lauderdale. They recently created an affiliation with TOWN Residential in New York City to further their real estate network.
CARLOS AND ROSA DE LA CRUZ
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: CCI Companies
Industry: Consumer Goods, Art Collectors
What Makes Them Haute:
He is the Chairman of the Board of CCI Companies, Inc., which includes subsidiaries of the Coca-Cola Company and has $1 billion in annual sales. She is known as one of Florida’s most prominent art collectors. Recognizing the significance of their incredible collection, the pair periodically opens their home to anyone who wishes to view their outstanding collection— including during Art Basel, when the couple let 3,000 VIPs into their Key Biscayne Home.
Gil & Lorena Dezer
CATEGORY: Originators/Power Couples
Company: Dezer Properties
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes Them Haute:
Dezer Development encompasses unique and strategic holdings in New York, Las Vegas, and Florida, and is the largest owner of oceanfront property in Sunny Isles Beach with just over 27 acres. Credited as major players in the rebirth of Sunny Isles Beach, the Dezers have developed nine luxury high rise residential and condo-hotel developments through unique partnerships with some of the world’s leading marquee lifestyle brands, including six Trump-branded towers, Porsche Design Tower, and Residences by Armani/Casa. Dezer’s wife, Lorena, is a fixture on the social scene and a generous supporter of charitable causes in the community.
BRETT DAVID
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Prestige Imports
Industry: Automobile
What Makes him Haute:
Under Brett David’s leadership, Prestige has obtained No.1 rankings in the world for both its Lamborghini Miami and Prestige Audi dealership. To honor his late father, David teamed up with the American Heart Association to develop the Prestigious Heart Fund, a non-profit dedicated to promoting heart health and awareness. In 2012, he was Man of the Year at Driving Force II and in 2014, he opened MPH, a luxury rental car service.
PAUL & SWANEE DIMARE
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: DiMare Fresh
Industry: Produce
What Makes Them Haute:
Paul DiMare is the nation’s top tomato grower and packer, owning DiMare Fresh. He is Founder and Chairman of Florida Farmers Inc, Director of 1st National Bank of South Florida. He is the President of seven different family foundations and the Paul J. DiMare Foundation, through which the DiMare’s have contributed $6 million to fund scholarships at University of Miami, and pledged an additional $12 million. Swanee has received awards from the Red Cross and serves on many boards and made substantial donations to The Fairchild Tropical Garden, The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, The Miami Science Museum, Women of Tomorrow, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. She recently chaired the Arsht Center Annual Gala. The couple have five adult children.
DAVID EDELSTEIN
CATEGORY: Originator
Company: Tristar Capital
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes him Haute:
David Edelstein’s relationships within the real estate and banking community are key to the success of his company, Tristar Capital. His development expertise comes from large-scale mixed-use projects in Manhattan, South Florida, and the West Coast. Edelstein has been the driving force behind high-profile retail projects like the Miracle Mile Shops in Las Vegas and the redevelopment of Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. In the past years he’s also developed the W South Beach Hotel & Residences and changed the hotel landscape in Miami Beach. Recently, he has been acquiring a portfolio of investments in Wynwood and the Design District. The real estate giant resides in New York City.
LUIS GARCIA FANJUL
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Group IUSA, S.A.
Industry: Manufacturing
What Makes him Haute:
Luis Garcia Fanjul is the Chief Operating Officer of Grupo IUSA, S.A., a worldwide company boasting over $8 billion dollars in annual revenues and employing over 25,000 people. They specialize in the electrical manufacturing sector, fabricating over 6,000 different products. The company also is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of smart/intelligent electrical, water, and gas metering systems.
Gloria & Emilio Estefan
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: Estefan Enterprises
Industry: Entertainment
What Makes Them Haute:
She’s the Queen of Latin Pop, has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, and has won seven Grammy Awards. Inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, the superstar and her husband, Emilio, are also actively involved in the betterment of the community and that of their home country of Cuba. Emilio is a musician and producer credited with skyrocketing the success of many famed music artists. As authors of a bestseller and minority owners of the Miami Dolphins, the duo has their plates more than full as the faces of various local, national, and international brands and causes.
Alan Faena
CATEGORY: Originators
Company: Faena Group
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes him Haute:
Alan Faena is an Argentinean hotelier, designer, and real estate developer. Having gotten his start with fashion brand Via Vai, Faena moved on to development in the year 2000 when he collaborated with Philippe Stark to create the first Faena District in Buenos Aires. Now President of the Faena Group, Faena is creating another hospitality, cultural, and residential complex in Miami Beach, which will include a new hotel, a conversion of the historic Saxony Hotel, along with many other projects dedicated to arts and culture.
Oscar & Ellen Feldenkreis
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Perry Ellis International
Industry: Fashion
What Makes Them Haute:
Oscar and Ellen Feldenkreis are involved in numerous national and civic causes including the Kosher Food Bank, United Way and the YPO/WPO Organization. Oscar is Vice-Chairman, President, and COO of Perry Ellis International and is also on the Board of Directors of FIT’s Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries, WPO Membership Chair and an Advisory Member for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business Retail. Oscar has received many awards including the National Human Relations award, the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Wharton School of Business and the Father of the Year Award benefitting Save the Children.
MIKE FERNANDEZ
CATEGORY: Billionaires
Company: MBF Healthcare Partners
Industry: Healthcare
What Makes him Haute:
A Cuban immigrant who became a billionaire by founding MBF Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm. He is also a landowner in Florida and Alabama with thousands of acres. Fernandez is active in Republican politics and served as a member of the finance committee for Governor Rick Scott’s re-election. He is also a philanthropist, having donated $5 million to Miami Children’s Hospital and $1 million to the Mourning Foundation.
Art Falcone
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Falcone Group
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes him Haute:
He is CEO of Falcone Group, a vertically integrated real estate and land development organization, and a Principal Partner of Encore Housing Opportunity Funds I and II, two opportunistic funds with private equity totaling $700 million. Falcone is also the founder and Managing Principal of Miami Worldcenter, one of the largest master planned urban environments in the United States, spanning more than 30 acres across nine blocks in the heart of Downtown Miami. He previously sold his company, Transeastern Homes, for over $1 billion.
JIM FERRARO
CATEGORY: Entrepreneur / Philanthropists
Company: The Ferraro Law Firm
Industry: Law
What Makes him Haute:
Ferraro has focused his law practices in the areas of asbestos litigation, product liability, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice and family law. His firms now handle nearly 50,000 asbestos cases, and are known nationwide for their environmental toxic tort practice. Jim is also known for his donations to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Children’s Home Society, United Way of Miami-Dade, and The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis. He was inducted into the Hope Stout Society in 2008, named one of the Twelve Good Men by the Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Florida in 2010, and is a member of the University of Miami’s Bowman Foster Ashe Society.
ELLA FONTANALS CISNEROS
CATEGORY: Thinkers
Company: Cisneros Fontannals Group
Industry: Art
What Makes her Haute:
She began collecting Latin American art in the 1970s and founded CFAF in 2002 with the goal of fostering, understanding, and creating appreciation for contemporary artists from Latin America through grants, commissions, exhibitions, and bilingual publications. She is a trustee of PAMM, Patrons of the Tate, the Cintas Foundation, United States Artist, and the International Women’s Forum. She also dedicates her time to being an active humanitarian and environmentalist.
Joey and Jessica Goldman Srebnick
CATEGORY: Originators
Company: Goldman Properties
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes Them Haute:
Goldman Properties, founded by visionary Tony Goldman, is responsible for transforming Soho in New York, the Art Deco District in Miami Beach, and now Wynwood in Miami from overlooked and lifeless areas to vital real estate with an artistic feel. Jessica Goldman Srebnick is carrying on the family business as CEO and continues to drive the company’s innovative developments and artistic collaborations. Early on, Joey Goldman, along with his father Tony, recognized Wynwood’s potential as Miami’s next new neighborhood and began purchasing properties, helping kickstart the Wynwood renaissance, in late 2008 Joey opened Joey’s Italian Cafe, an authentic Italian restaurant.
Phillip & Patricia Frost
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: Pharmaceuticals
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
What Makes Them Haute:
He is the CEO of IVAX Corporation and large shareholder of Opko Health. She served as chair of the Smithsonian National Board. The couple donated $33 million to the University of Miami to finance the Frost School of Music. Another major donation to Florida International University resulted in a renaming of the school’s art museum, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. $35 million donation begot the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Not to rest on their profound philanthropy, the Frosts recently pledged yet another $12 million for the science museum that now bears their name.
Russell Galbut
CATEGORY: Originators
Company: Crescent Heights
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes him Haute:
Galbut is the Managing Principal of Crescent Heights, a company heralded as the leader in high-rise residential construction and hotel development. Although Galbut’s family has a history of owning Miami Beach real estate, Crescent Heights is amongst the nation’s largest residential condominium companies with properties around the country. Currently, they have over a billion dollars in ground-up construction projects, all in various stages of development. He is building a 17,000-square foot residence for himself over a parking garage in South of Fifth. He received the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce’s Innovation in Business Award last year.
Manuel Grosskopf
CATEGORY: Entrepreneur
Company: Chateau Group
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes him Haute:
Originally from Argentina, Manuel Grosskopf is the head of U.S. operations for Chateau Group. The group helped finance 900 Biscayne and Quantum on the Bay, before building Chateau Beach Residences in Sunny Isles. He is now working on Chateau Ocean, and Fendi Chateau Residences, a soaring luxury tower in Sunny Isles with Fendi design.
Ken Gorin
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: The Collection
Industry: Automobile
What Makes him Haute: Gorin, Co-Owner and President of The Collection in Miami, is known as one of the most respected luxury automobile executives. Under his direction, The Collection has become one of the most distinguished luxury dealerships in the country, closing out 2014 with a record-breaking $500,000,000 in sales. Gorin is on the Chairman’s Committee of Make A Wish Foundation, and through The Collection, Gorin sponsors countless charities including Jackson Memorial Foundation, Miami Project, Doctor’s Hospital, Miami Children’s Museum, Women of Tomorrow, the Boys and Girls Clubs, and many more.
Philip Goldfarb
CATEGORY: Thinkers
Company: Fontainebleau
Industry: Hospitality
What Makes him Haute:
As President & COO of Fontainebleau, Goldfarb, has taken the iconic resort to the next level with creative ideas like BleauLive, the resort’s one-of-a-kind entertainment platform. Seven years as President & COO of Turnberry Associates and 13 years as Doubletree’s GM and S.E. Director of Operations prepared him to run the ultimate Miami Beach hotel property. He has won FIU’s Hospitality School “Torchbearer Award” and the prestigious FIU Medallion.
Dave Grutman
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: Miami Marketing Group
Industry: Nightlife
What Makes him Haute:
Armed with an enviable Rolodex and a knack for wrangling the right crowd, he opened Miami Marketing Group (MMG) with partners Brian Gordon and Ryan Schinman. MMG deals with full-service, experiential marketing platforms for everything from red carpet events to the hottest nightclubs around. In addition to the always-packed LIV at the Fontainebleau, MMG then added Story. Grutman was recently named Rolling Stone’s “Top 50 Most Important People in EDM.”
John Jansheski
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
Company: HYPE Energy
Industry: Photography/ Real Estate
What Makes him Haute:
What Makes Him Haute: Before selling majority share in the DenTek oral care business he grew to over $100 million, John was sailing with U.S. Olympic Sailing team in the San Francisco Bay. John used his fortune to make strategic investments in South Florida real estate while pursuing his artistic passion in photography. So far he’s photographed Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Coldplay, Jay-Z and Beyonce in front of his camera’s lens. Now he’s bringing the global energy drink brand, HYPE Energy, to its first US headquarters here in South Beach.
ROMAIN ZAGO & JOANNA KRUPA
CATEGORY: Power Couples
Company: Mynt Lounge
Industry: Nightlife/Modeling
What Makes Them Haute:
Zago is the owner of Mynt Lounge, a hot South Beach nightclub with amazing longevity. Romain’s model wife, Joanna Krupa, has graced the covers of countless magazines, appeared on “Dancing with the Stars,” and was in the cast of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Miami.” The beauty is actively involved in PETA and has her own nonprofit, Angels for Animals, which is an animal rescue organization.
Jill Eber & Jill Hertzberg
CATEGORY: Originators
Company: Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate
What Makes Them Haute:
The celebrity broker team known as “The Jills” of Coldwell Banker is the brokerage’s most successful team in history, having the highest production on record of any agent team in the company’s 106-year history, closing over $552 million in sales during 2013, due in part to their $41.5 million sale of Casa Casuarina, the former Versace Mansion. Their top location picks include exclusive oceanfront homes and condos on Fisher Island, Sunset Island, Golden Beach, La Gorce, and Indian Creek Island.
Tommy Hilfiger
CATEGORY: Entrepreneur, Originator
Company: Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
Industry: Fashion/ Hospitality
What Makes him Haute:
After a hit premier menswear collection in 1985, Hilfiger grew at a fast pace. His Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation helps the cultural lives of underprivileged youth. He is also involved with the Anti-Defamation League and on the board of The Fresh Air Fund. In 2009, he donated $2 million to Millennium Promise. Hilfiger is married to designer Dee Ocleppo and purchased a home in Golden Beach as well as the iconic Raleigh Hotel in 2014.
Karolina Kurkova & Archie Drury
CATEGORY: Entertainment
Industry: Modeling
What Makes Them Haute:
Kurkova has graced the prestigious international covers of Vogue and had contracts with brands like Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, and Victoria’s Secret, for whom she walks the runway every year. Kurkova is also an active humanitarian; she was the face of the 2012 Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign and consistently works towards the welfare of children through organizations such as The Beautiful Life Fund, Free Arts and Global Youth Action Network. She was also a coach on Oxygen’s model search television series, The Face, for its inaugural season. In 2009, Kurkova married Voices of Iraq film producer and former actor, Archie Drury, before she gave birth to their son, Tobin.
Roman Jones and Justin Levine
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