21 Facts About Mohamed Hadid

Mohamed Anwar Hadid is an American real estate developer of Palestinian origin.

Mohamed Hadid is known for building luxury hotels and mansions, mainly in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles and the city of Beverly Hills, California.

Mohamed Hadid is the father of models Gigi and Bella Hadid.

Mohamed Hadid is the son of Anwar Mohamed Hadid and his wife Khairiah Daher, and has two brothers and five sisters.

Mohamed 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.

In 1948, the family moved to Syria, and Mohamed Hadid's father joined the United States Information Agency and Voice of America.

Mohamed Hadid graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, where he was the only Arab student, before attending North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mohamed 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.

Mohamed Hadid converted a Houston hotel into a Ritz-Carlton Hotel and developed a Ritz-Carlton resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Shortly after Mohamed 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.

Laurie accused Mohamed Hadid 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 a claim that Mohamed Hadid violated local zoning laws.

In May 2017, Mohamed 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.

Mohamed 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.

Mohamed Hadid competed in the demonstration sport of speed skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics, representing Jordan.

Mohamed Hadid was encouraged to participate by his friend, Austrian Olympic skier Franz Weber.

Mohamed Hadid was the only member of the Jordanian delegation, and remains the only person to have represented Jordan in the Winter Olympics.

Mohamed Hadid has appeared on the TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, as the ex-husband of Yolanda Mohamed Hadid.

In 2014, Mohamed Hadid was engaged to Shiva Safai, a model and businesswoman.

Mohamed Hadid was born in Iran and raised in Norway, and at age 19, moved to Los Angeles with her family.

Mohamed Hadid has never drunk alcohol, although he does have a 5,000-bottle wine cellar, including some from his own Beverly Hills winery.