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Muhammad Anwar Hadid ( in English : Mohamed Hadid ) is a real estate developer who holds dual Jordanian and American citizenship , born on November 6 , 1948. He is of Palestinian origin . He is famous for building luxury hotels and palaces, especially in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Hills in Los Angeles County (California) .
Early life
Muhammad Anwar Hadid is Palestinian and was born in Nazareth in November 1948 to a Muslim family. He is the son of Anwar Hadid (1908-1979) and his wife Khairiya. Through his mother, he claims descent from Daher al-Omar , Emir of Nazareth and Sheikh of Galilee. Hadid has two brothers and five sisters.
He fled Palestine with his family during the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 . In 2015, Hadid said: “We became refugees to Syria and lost our home in Safed to a Jewish family that we had sheltered...a strange thing. “My family and I would do it again.”
His father, Anwar Hadid, studied at the Teachers College in Jerusalem and joined the university in Syria to study law, in Al-Fanrah, which was before his work in the British authorities’ settlements and his teaching of the English language at the Teachers College during the British Mandate of Palestine .
In 1948 he moved to Syria and joined the US Information Agency and Voice of America . He and his family lived in Damascus , Tunisia , and Greece before moving to Washington, D.C. , where Anwar Sr. worked at the Voice of America headquarters there. When his son, Muhammad, was 14, he spent the rest of his career there with VOA and USIA as a writer, editor, and translator. .
Mohamed Anwar Hadid attended North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Career path
Among his first projects was a company that exported equipment to the Middle East.
He began his career restoring and reselling classic cars in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. , before moving to Greece where he opened a nightclub on an island and, with the profits, began developing real estate back in the United States.
In the 1980s, much of his financial influence came from SAAR, a Herndon-based foundation with Saudi roots. The foundation has been a 50-50 partner in several of Hadid's projects.
In the late 1980s, he faced at least 30 lawsuits from creditors and banks alleging that he had not fulfilled various financial obligations.
He paid $150 million for the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Washington and New York. He also converted a Houston hotel into a Ritz-Carlton and developed the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.
He outbid Donald Trump, paying $42.9 million for several select lots in Aspen and announcing plans for a 292-room Ritz resort.
In 1992, a settlement was reached in a lawsuit by Riggs Bank against Melvin Linkin, president of Columbia First Bank, a Hadid partner in a construction project in Washington, D.C., that included a loan that Hadid had defaulted on.
After the settlement, Hadid closed his local office, lost his McLean home to foreclosure, and left the Washington area.
He developed Le Belvedere, a mansion in Bel Air, Los Angeles, which sold for $50 million in 2010. In 2012, he developed The Crescent Palace, a 48,000-square-foot home on an acre lot next to the Beverly Hills Hotel , which he put on sale for $58. million.
Shortly after Hadid received approval to build a mansion in Bel Air, the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance, headed by Fred Rosen, was formed to oppose Hadid's activities.
In January 2015, Nancy Walton Lowry , heiress to the Walmart fortune and resident of Bel Air, filed a lawsuit through her company, LW Partnership, against Hadid. [29] Lori Hadid was accused of damaging the roots of a eucalyptus tree on her property with a retaining wall he built next to her house.
In December 2015, the Los Angeles City Council voted to pursue criminal charges over an allegation that Hadid violated local zoning laws . The council claimed Hadid had built his house contrary to multiple planning orders and made it twice the permitted size.
In May 2017, Hadid pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges stemming from mansion construction cases for which he did not receive city approval, and was sentenced in July to community service and fines.
In July 2017, he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service, was called upon to repay $14,191 in restitution to the city of Los Angeles, and was fined $3,000.
He was also given a three-year probationary period to ensure the drug complies with current regulations, or he will face a 180-day prison sentence.
Sports career
Muhammad Anwar Hadid participated in speed skating in the 1992 Winter Olympics , representing Jordan . He was 43 years old at the time.
Hadid was encouraged to participate by his friend, Austrian Olympic skater Franz Weber . Hadid was the only member of the Jordanian delegation, and remains the only person to represent Jordan at the Winter Olympics .
Television appearances
Hadid appeared on the television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , as Yolanda Hadid's ex-husband . [28] He has also appeared on Shahs of Sunset , and Second Wives Club on E! With his fiancée Shiva Safai in 2017.
Personal life
Hadid's first marriage was to Mary Butler, with whom he had two daughters, Alana Hadid and Marielle Hadid. Muhammad and Butler then ended their marriage in 1992.
From 1994 until their divorce in 2000, Mohamed was married to Dutch model Yolanda Hadid , née van den Herik. [40] They had three children, all of whom became models : Gigi ( born 1995), Bella (born 1996), [39] and Anwar (born 1999).
In 2014, Hadid was engaged to Shiva Safai, a model and businesswoman, who was born in Iran and raised in Norway, and at the age of 19, she moved to Los Angeles with her family. Shiva Safai, who is 33 years his junior, began appearing in E! reality show, The Second Wives Club in 2017.
As of December 2019, Mohamed Hadid and Safai have separated,
Muhammad Anwar Hadid holds dual Jordanian-American citizenship . He does not consider himself a practicing Muslim, [20] but has never drunk alcohol, although he has a cellar containing 5,000 bottles of wine, including some from his own winery in Beverly Hills.
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