Andre Birleanu

Birleanu is the founder and executive producer of Supreme Rocket Productions, a multi-purpose European corporation that since September 2011 has expanded into a variety of creative industries, making international fashion covers, software implementation in fashion industry, representing artists like Rothko, Van Gogh, Ruben, Pollock managing careers of olympic cyclist champion Kim van Dijk, British welterweight boxing champion Dudley O'Shaughnessy, actor and MMA fighter Florian Munteanu and also high-end fashion professionals. Since December 2016 Birleanu is also the founder and chief financial officer of Supreme Global a British corporation.

While residing and filming between New York and Hollywood in 2009, he dated Brazilian model Ana Catharina Jaqueira who is the mother of his first child, a daughter. Soon after the birth in Brazil, the relationship ended. In 2012 while shooting on location in São Paulo Brazil, Andre Birleanu discovered and started dating, now his wife, Eloisa Birleanu with whom he married in 2014 and gave him his second daughter Azzura Birleanu,. In September 2015 Birleanu filed for divorce.

In October 2007, there were allegations of sexual misconduct from a model whom he had previously dated but soon after all has been dismissed. The district attorney's office in the Criminal Court of Manhattan dismissed the case and dropped all charges. Birleanu maintained his innocence and wished to counter prosecute for false charges and slanderous allegations. In 2012 Birleanu was the victim of an armed robbery assault while visiting his daughter Eva in Salvador de Bahia; Birleanu fought the knife armed criminals sending two to hospital while third got away, not aware that the Brazilian Military Police were on standby, and recording the entire incident. The recording was used later to obtain a conviction .

Birleanu is the son of Vladimir Simonov, a Russian diplomat, international lawyer and a forensic professor and Carmen Bîrleanu, a Romanian diplomat. Birleanu was born in the Soviet Union, Moscow, but traveled extensively due to his father's work under the Soviet diplomatic corp. In 1996, his mother was working for the United Nations in New York and invited her son to America to attend University. He attended John Jay Criminal Justice Academy, having been awarded a full scholarship. Soon after he was discovered as a model and decided to put it all on stand-by as the traveling didn't allow him to properly attend his classes. He is fluent in English, Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and still struggling with his native Russian as depicted on America's Smartest Model.