Nazarian’s career started in the technology sector having a radio firm he co-founded and later sold. In 2001, Nazarian joined the housing marketplace. It was during this period of his profession that Nazarian started to visit a need for an alternative way of hospitality. Nazarian studied at New York University as well as the University of Southern California, and now resides in Vegas.
Nazarian family immigrated to America after the Iranian Revolution. Son of rich Qualcomm co-founder Younes Nazarian. Sam was raised in La, California. He’s of Persian Jewish descent. Based on a Los Angeles Magazine interview, despite his inherited wealth, the youthful Nazarian had trouble getting entry to the greatest clubs in his younger days, and such encounters helped to galvanize his need to create a name for himself as a nightlife impresario. His first entrepreneurial endeavor was in 1998, when he founded Platinum Wireless, a telecommunications business focusing on the distribution of Nextel applications. Within one year of its own foundation, Platinum Wireless was the number one Nextel provider in Southern California. Then he entered the sphere of real estate by diversifying his family’s assets into property holdings, starting together with the institution of 3Wall Development in 1999. Under Sam’s guidance 3Wall became one of Southern California’s biggest owners of multi-family home. His SBE possesses several Los Angeles clubs and cocktail lounges:Create, Greystone Manor, Emerson, Hyde, XIV, Colony, Eden, MyHouse, MyStudio and The Abbey. He possesses each nightclub outright without other investors. These sites continue to view a higher degree of popularity and star patronage, along with being often seen by the characters of HBO’s Entourage. Nazarian’s SBE brand has additionally been featured on episodes of The Hills.
Businessperson, Film Producer, Actor, Entrepreneur
Education
Beverly Hills High School (1993), University of Southern California, New York University
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Emina Cunmulaj
Parents
Younes Nazarian
Partner
Emina Cunmulaj
Movies
Operation Shock and Awe... some
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Quote
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You know, I'm not a scholar. I'm not this brilliant guy. I didn't go to school for technology or design or any of that. I didn't even finish college. I can't build you a wall. I can't even make you an egg. But if you put yourself around enough people that trust you and you give them a shot, then great things happen. I want to be a nice man, which is not too common in my industry. Nice is free! All I want is to make people happy!
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The first time I went to Vegas, I was just dazzled! Everything was bigger, brighter, flashier! It was where I wanted to be!
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Everyone does dumb things in their twenties. I just had the resources to do dumber things than everyone else. But I was never the party boy they made me out to be.
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Yes, she's (Emina Cunmulaj) a model. But she's incredibly smart. She's a self-made person, she supports her family, she speaks six languages. I met her on a trip in the Caribbean for an hour and didn't see her again for the next two months. We spoke every night on the phone....We fell in love on the phone. She's a big part of why I was successful in the last four or five years.
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When I was growing up, there was a definite sense that Persians were just invading L.A. And the truth is, we were just not cool. We didn't know how to dress. We didn't know the culture. Every time we'd go to a club, they'd make us wait for two hours and then announce it was a private party. It was kind of sadistic. I ended up hiring some of those doormen. Now they always let me in!
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Fact
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In Las Vegas Nevada, Nazarian owns a 14,000 sq. ft. mansion in the hills away from the famous strip. Also, he owns a Montana mansion which has a private ski slope, and a beach-front villa in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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SBE Foundation- Nazarian's charity that contributes to education projects, and juvenile diabetes.
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In Las Vegas, Nevada, Nazarian has maintained a four-year, live-together relationship with Emina Cunmulaj, an Albanian-American, who is a fashion model.
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Samy Boy Entertainment - name of his business corporation.
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He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1993.
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Persian descent.
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Owns the popular nightclub Area, Hyde, and Privilige on the Sunset Strip.
$150 Million
