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Jean de Brabant (born 20 August 1956, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian lawyer, real-estate developper, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Biography
His parents were Michelle Tisseyre, an important television and radio personality in Quebec's history, and Jacques de Brabant, a lawyer. He studied law at McGill University and received his Bachelors in Civil Law in 1959. From 1981 to 1995, he married the singer Céline Lomez. Afterwards, Jean de Brabant got married to Hilary Radley. He has five children and currently resides in both Montreal and Stowe, Vermont.

The Haumont Case
He begun practicing law at his father's firm, Ahern, de Brabant, Nuss & Drymer. One of his most notable cases is the defense of Professor Roland Haumont. In November 1963, Jean de Brabant defended Professor Roland Haumont .Professor Haumont, an American professor of French Litterature, was accused of being criminally responsible for the gas explosion that lead to the death of his wife and his two daughters on October 20 1963. The prosecution believed that Haumont had let gas flow into the basement by opening a valve outside the house then ignited the explosion from the basement. The story was credible because Firemen had found him in the basement after the explosion. However, January 4 1964, Professor Haumont was freed of the charges against him. A few years after, Jean de Brabant left the firm and began his carreer as an entrepreneur.

Les Atriums and Tropics North
In the spring of 1979's, Jean de Brabant bought the old Dupuis Frères building and decided to redesign it completely. He conceptualized Les Atriums as a building filled with offices, boutiques, sunlight and flowers. By the early 1980's, construction on the project began with the help of investments from Philips and American flowering plants. On the 22nd of November 1982, De Brabant held the official opening of Les Atriums. The end result was seven stories of flowers and climate controls regulated for each different type of ecosystem and a waterfall inside an eight storied building. Some of the first tenants were Hydro-Quebec and TransCanada Corporation.

In the winter of 1985, Jean de Brabant began planning Tropics North, a 136-units condominium, that would be situated next to Habitat 67 in the Cité du Havre. The initial idea was to build a building within a glass shroud and install a similar climate control system to Les Atriums. However, the plan changed because buyers did not want to live within a artificial climate. Jean de Brabant changed the plans so that the climate controlled atrium would only enclose the entire south side of the future condominium building.

The innovations that Tropics North and Les Atriums brought to the table were used to help design the Montreal Biodome.

Jobbook
In recent years, Jean de Brabant has founded a job search and recruitment site called Jobbook. There has been some controversy surrounding the site and Jean de Brabant due to his recruitment of student leaders. For example, at the beginning of 2011, Zach Newburg, the President of the Student Socitety of McGill University (SSMU), was recruited to work with Jean de Brabant and was given shares of the company. Zach Newburg was then accused by the SSMU of having a conflict of interest. In the end, Zach Newburg had followed the current conflict of interest policy and vowed to "make the policy a lot more specific and less ambiguous" in order to avoid similar controversies.

Charitable Works
In 1984, Jean de Brabant was the vice-president of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts fundraising drive. In 2010, Jean de Brabant and his current wife, Hilary Bradley, started the Jean de Brabant Foundation and have begun raising funds to fight malaria in Africa.