Kurt Rappaport — Westside Estate Agency Inc.

Chief Executive

THE LATEST: Rappaport was No. 1 on the Business Journal’s list of top residential agents with more than $1 billion worth of sales in L.A. in 2020 &emdash; nearly $220 million more than the No. 2 agent. Rappaport’s noteworthy clients over the years have included Larry Ellison, Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Bono, Madonna, Sean Parker, Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Seacrest, Steven Cohen, Peter Guber, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen.
BACKGROUND: Rappaport, an L.A. native, started his real estate career at the age of 19. He worked at Merrill Lynch before launching Beverly Hills-based Westside Estate Agency with Stephen Shapiro in 1999. The agency now has offices in Beverly Hills, Malibu and Miami and annual sales of more than $3 billion. Rappaport is also a philanthropist, volunteering at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Cedars-Sinai, and serving on the board of the Larry King Cardiac Foundation. He graduated from USC.
YEARS ON THE LA500: 6
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