Kurt Rappaport is an American real estate investor and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Westside Estate Agenc

Background

Rappaport is the son of Floyd A. Rappaport, a Detroit-born entertainment lawyer of American Jews, Jewish descent who represented celebrities including

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, and

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.Los Angeles Times: "Floyd A. RAPPAPORT Obituary"
March 2, 2010 , ''"He is survived by his very loving son Kurt, daughter-in-law Juliette, brother Stuart and sister-in-law Anne Rappaport, sister Donna Braverman and three very loving grandchildren, Jake, Luke and Julia"''
October 07, 1989 Rappaport graduated from the

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where he worked in real estate part-time. After school, he worked for Merrill Lynch Realty, Fred Sands Estates, and Stan Herman, Stephen Shapiro and Associates before co-founding the Westside Estate AgencyLos Angeles Block Shopper: "Real estate firm founder buys in Beverly Hills for $4.5M"
February 19, 2010 in 1999 with Stephen Shapiro. In 2006, the agency added a Malibu office and booked more than $1 billion in sales with co-founders Rappaport and Shapiro ranked as the top two agents in

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"Westside Estate Agency to add Malibu office"
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'', Los Angeles, 28 February 2007. Retrieved on 12 September 2012. As of 2015, WEA has over 100 full-time agents with offices in Beverly Hills, Malibu and Miami with over $3 billion in annual sales.

Career

Rappaport has represented

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, who Rappaport represented on a buying spree that included 30 Malibu properties valued at more than $600 million. Rappaport has owned and developed some of the most valuable real estate in California. Many of his homes have been featured in Architectural Digest and numerous other publications.

Media ventures

Rappaport is the executive producer of "London Fields", a feature film currently in post-production, based on the novel

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Personal life

In December, 2020, Rappaport married Serbian model, Zorana Kuzmanovic. He owned a 6-acre Malibu estate valued at $100M that features the longest private pool in the State of California. Prior to residing in Malibu, Rappaport sold his own home in Beverly Hills to

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for $32.5M"Inside the TomKat Lair"
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Awards

On September 21, 2016, in New York City, Rappaport, along with

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, received

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”, From 2016-2021, Rappaport has been named by

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as being one of the 500 Most Influential People In Los Angeles.

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References

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