Biography
Giuliano was born in Rochester, New York and raised in the villages of Albion and Olcott Beach, New York. He was the youngest of five children. He and his mother, Myrna Oneita Juliana, moved to Tampa, Florida when he was twelve. There he first became interested in acting, Vedic philosophy and fine art seriography. Giuliano has stated that "Giuliano" was his birth name. One newspaper, however, has reported that he was born "Jeffrey Juliana", that he adopted "Geoffrey Giuliano" as a pen name, and that in 1997 he changed his legal name to "Jagannatha Dasa". For a brief period the honorific title of "Puripada" was awarded him by several of his Indian yoga students, but Giuliano/Dasa ultimately rejected the title as inappropriate. According to a story in the Buffalo News, Giuliano has also used the alias "Eric Johnson."
Giuliano attended Madison Junior High School, H.B Plant High School and Hillsborough Community College (all in Tampa) and, in the mid-1970s, the State University of New York at Brockport.
On August 6, 1977, Jeffrey Joseph Juliana married Brenda Lee Black (later author/animal rights activist Vrnda Devi) in Hillsborough County, Florida, and together they had four children—Sesa, Devin, Avalon and India. He also has a young son from another relationship, Tulsi Mala Kuptsov, born in Bangkok in mid-July 2003.. His marriage to a Thai trainee hairdresser named Ping lasted six months. In April 2007 he married Kesorn Faunmaong, a Bangkok executive at Citicorp, who of Issan descent. On February 28, 2008 their son, Eden Garret Giuliano, was born in a Bangkok hospital. The marriage soon ended, however, and Giuliano moved to nearby Pattaya with his young son.
In mid-2009, Giuliano turned his full attention to launching a museum dedicated to the Beatles and other iconic sixties groups. Called "The Museum Of 60's Music & Culture" (The MMC), the idea was to house his collection of sixties art in his Victorian-style house in Lockport, New York, and open it to the public. Opening was scheduled for the summer of 2010, by which time Giuliano was ready to return to the United States after a nearly ten-year stint abroad in India and Thailand. Giuliano unsuccessfully attempted to open a Beatles museum at the same location in 2006, pulling the plug after receiving a negative reception from Lockport city officials and readers of the Lockport Union Sun & Journal. Lockport Mayor Michael Tucker commented, "The fact that he’s going to pull the plug is fine with me. I never believed in the project to begin with. Maybe if he has a lot of Beatles memorabilia, he should sell some and pay his property taxes."
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