Mohamed Anwar Hadid is a Jordanian-American real estate developer.
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17 Facts About Anwar Hadid
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Anwar Hadid is known for building luxury hotels and mansions, mainly in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Los Angeles and the city of Beverly Hills, California.
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Anwar Hadid is the son of Anwar Mohamed Hadid and his wife Khairiah Hadid, and has two brothers and five sisters.
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Anwar Hadid's father studied at a teachers' college in Jerusalem and attended a university in Syria to study law, before working in land settlement for the British authorities and teaching English at a teachers' college in Mandatory Palestine.
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Anwar Hadid attended North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Anwar Hadid started his career restoring and reselling classic cars in the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington, DC, before moving to Greece, where he opened a nightclub on an island, and with the profits, started developing real estate in the United States.
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Anwar Hadid converted a Houston hotel into a Ritz-Carlton Hotel and developed a Ritz-Carlton resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Shortly after Anwar Hadid received approval for the construction of a mansion in Bel Air, the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance, chaired by Fred Rosen, was formed to oppose it.
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Laurie accused Anwar Hadid of damaging the roots of a eucalyptus tree on her property with a retaining wall he built next to her house.
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In May 2017, Anwar Hadid pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges stemming from mansion-construction issues for which he did not receive city approval, and was sentenced that July to community service and fines.
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Anwar Hadid was given a three-year probation period to ensure the property would comply with existing regulations, or he would face a 180-day jail sentence.
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Anwar Hadid competed in the demonstration sport of speed skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics, representing Jordan.
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Anwar Hadid was encouraged to participate by his friend, Austrian Olympic skier Franz Weber.
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Anwar Hadid was the only member of the Jordanian delegation, and remains the only person to have represented Jordan in the Winter Olympics.
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Anwar Hadid has appeared on the TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, as the ex-husband of Yolanda Anwar Hadid.
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In 2014, Anwar Hadid was engaged to Shiva Safai, a model and businesswoman.
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Anwar Hadid was born in Iran and raised in Norway, and at age 19, moved to Los Angeles with her family.
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