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Gilles Bensimon

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Birthplace: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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About Gilles Bensimon

He is a top fashion photographer and the International Creative Director of ELLE magazine. He has also been the photographer on the reality television series America's Next Top Model.

Born in Paris, France, he joined the French ELLE in 1967, where he met his first wife Pascha. When the American ELLE was launched in 1985, Bensimon was invited to join it. Here he photographed many well-known models, including Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Lisa Snowdon, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Rachel Williams, Honor Fraser, Yasmin Le Bon and Beverly Peele. In 1985 he also met his second wife, Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson, but they divorced in 1989. In 1999, he became the director of the American ELLE.

He has one child with Pascha, and two daughters, Sea and Thaddeus "Teddy", with his third wife, Kelly Killoren Bensimon who is on the reality show The Real Housewives of New York City The couple is now divorced. Since that time, Bensimon has been linked to several fashion models including Estella Alt, and recently art historian Diana Widmaier-Picasso, granddaughter of Pablo Picasso.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Bensimon

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Gilles Bensimon's Timeline

1944
1944
Paris, Ile-de-France, France