Early Life and Career
Fuisz was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Slovenian immigrants Anton and Margaret Fuisz, and has dual US/Slovenian citizenship as a result.
He attended Bethlehem Catholic High School. He majored in Biology at Georgetown University and graduated from Georgetown Medical School. Richard Fuisz and his brother, Robert Fuisz, established an endowed professorship at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
After graduating from medical school, he worked on public health films. He then hosted a television talk show, and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Pennsylvania.
Later Fuisz was commissioned as a Lt. Commander in the United States Navy. His Naval work included a White House posting. Fuisz then founded Medcom, a publicly traded medical training company.
Fuisz established the Seline Modeling Agency together with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Seline Agency brought the first Miss USSR to the United States. Seline was acquired by the Click Agency.
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