Ricardo Fort is the grandson of Felipe Fort, the founder of the Felfort Chocolate Company, and heir of the company, as well as being a self-financed entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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, and a television personality. He was part of Marcelo Tinelli

Marcelo Tinelli

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's reality show, El musical de tus sueños in 2009.

Background

The Felfort Chocolate Company was founded by his grandfather in 1912 when the senior Fort was himself only 12 years old.

In 2010 it was reported through an interview of Fort on Tienen la Palabra de TN, that his twin children Felipe and Marta were born of a surrogate mother found through the auspices of a company in California.

Business

Ricardo developed businesses in the textile industry and in modeling, as well as owning the Fortmen clothing line.

Television

In 2009, at the age of 41, Ricardo Fort financed a reality show about himself where he would travel the world.

Through efforts of Alejandro Fantino and Santiago del Moro, Fort became a regular guest on Animales sueltos and Infama, and events such as Bendita, RSM, TVR and Zapping.In 2009, Fort participated in the reality series El musical de tus sueños in 2009.

In 2010, Fort was selected to be one of the judges of the seventh season of Bailando por un Sueño 2010. He currently works in the theatrical production Fortuna 2.

Theater

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!Year
!Production
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|2010
|Fortuna
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{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Production
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|2011
|Fortuna 2
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Television

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!Year
!Program
!Channel
!Role
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|2009
| Reality Fort
| Canal Trece
| Himself
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|2009
| Showmatch, El musical de tus sueños
| Canal Trece
| Participant
|-
|2010
| Showmatch, Bailando por un sueño 2010
| Canal Trece
| Judge
|-
|}