Fredrik Eklund's Million Dollar Porno Past

Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York, a spin-off of Million Dollar Listing, debuts Mar. 7 with real estate agent Fredrik Eklund. We love it when former porn stars find legitimate success, but neither Eklund’s official Bravo bio nor press releases make any mention of his stint in the gay porn industry. Good thing we’ve got the scoop.

Although Eklund very briefly addressed the subject in a 2010 New York Times profile, he really opened up about his porno past five years ago in a Feb. 2007 cover story for HX, a now-defunct LGBT weekly. Unfortunately, the article’s no longer accessible online, but we dug it up a hard copy.

“I was in a different place in my life,” says Eklund, who was approached in 2002 by a Jet Set Studios representative who had seen his photo online. At that time, the ambitious entrepreneur was the CEO of a Swedish Internet company with nearly 50 employees. “After two-and-a-half years of building that company, I was exhausted, frustrated and felt suffocated. Everything in my whole life up until that point had been about my brain and studying and making money. So when I got the offer, I decided to take a break from everything, do something a little crazy and see where it led me. And the craziest thing I could think of was to go do porn movies in Los Angeles.”

Eklund made a fistful of films under the name Tag Eriksson like 2003’s The Hole, for which he earned a GayVN award for Best Solo Scene. He continues:

“It was like research, an experiment for myself. I learned that I could do whatever I want… If I had listened to anybody else but myself, I wouldn’t have done it, but I’m glad that I did. It brought me to where I am today.”

As for dealing with prejudice or razzing in the workplace?

“C’mon, it’s New York, we’ve all done crazy things and it’s something I did five years ago,” he says. “And it’s something I’m not ashamed of. When I look someone in the eye and say, ‘Yeah, I did it, whatever,’ it’s easier for people to take in and no one can say anything. But when it comes to who knows and who doesn’t, I don’t know and I really don’t care."

Comments

[ryan]

absolutely disgusting, reprobate pagan.