Peter M. Brant

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Peter M. Brant (born 1947) is an American newsprint Billionaire, art collector, and film producer and is the Chairman and C.E.O. of White Birch Paper Company, a private company, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Brant is also the owner of Brant Publications, Inc., which specializes in art in America and antiques via its three magazines: Interview magazine (founded by Andy Warhol), Art in America, and The Magazine Antiques.

White Birch Paper

White Birch Paper is a manufacturer of high-quality newsprint, directory paper, and paperboard with mills in the United States and Canada. As of December 2007, White Birch Paper operates six pulp and paper mills; three in Quebec, Canada and three in the United States. Together, these mills produce more than 1.3 million tons of newsprint and directory paper with up to 50 percent recycled content. Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, White Birch Paper is a privately owned, family-run business that manufactures and ships paper products to customers in North America and all over the world.

Thoroughbred horse racing

Peter Brant was an owner/breeder of a number of Thoroughbred racehorses, notably Waya (FR), the winner of the 1979 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Female Horse, and Gulch whose wins include the Breeders' Cup Sprint and who was voted the 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Sprint Horse.

Film producer

Peter M. Brant was the Executive Producer of the 1996 film Basquiat, the acclaimed 2000 film Pollock, and in 2006 Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film.

Family

Brant has eight children, five with his first wife, Sandy, from whom he is divorced, and three children with Stephanie Seymour whom he married in 1995.

External links

• Peter Brant at the Internet Movie Database
• "New York Times"
• Delaware Indian ancestors