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John Frieda - Biography
John Frieda (born June 1951 in London) is an English celebrity hairstylist who built hair salon and product businesses on the back of his reputation. The hair product business was acquired in 2002 by an American division of Kao Corporation, Japan, for $450 million. The hair products he created are widely available in the USA and many other countries.
John Frieda is the third of four children of Isidore Frieda and Hannah Mary Docherty, both deceased. Isidore’s father fled Poland during an anti-Jewish pogrom and set up a barber shop in London’s Fleet Street. Isidore worked as a hairstylist in London’s Hyde Park Hotel where he cultivated an elite clientele. He later established several businesses in a London suburb, Ealing, including a hair salon where John worked part time while at high school. Isidore mentored John and invested in his early ventures.
Hannah Docherty was the eldest of 10 children born to Catholic parents in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.John`s siblings are Jocelyn Simpson, Nigel Frieda (the owner of Osea Island, who managed the British female group, Sugababes, and was married to the historian Leonie Frieda) and Paul Frieda (a Lean Six Sigma consultant).
John was previously married to the Scottish singer Lulu, with whom he had a son, the actor Jordan Frieda. He now lives with Frances Avery Howe (1965), an Anglo-American architect and the widow of Fiat heir, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (son of the Italian entrepreneur and politician, Umberto Agnelli). Frances has a daughter from her marriage to Giovanni, v*rginia Asia Agnelli. John and Frances together have a daughter, Leyla Luna (2005), and a son, Jackson John (2007).
