Jason Shaw was born into a prominent family in Chicago, his father being the CEO of Jefferies & Company, Inc., a global investment bank and securities firm. Good-looking and athletic, Shaw graduated from the University of Chicago in 1995, playing for the basketball team and earning a degree in history. He had planned to go into business. However, his college roommate, who was from South Beach, Florida, knew some people in the modeling business and told Jason that he had the looks and presenc ...[Read Story]