Nazarian family donates $17 million to CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center. Younes and Soraya Sarah Nazarian are donating $17 million to the Valley Performing Arts Center at CSUN.

Nazarian’s family survived the Armenian genocide, the Bolshevik Revolution and other political uprisings, and his grandmother spent five years in a Siberian work camp before his family fled Iran.

Younes Nazarian, philanthropist, businessman, and community leader passed on March 18, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles, surrounded by his wife of 61 years, Soraya Sarah Nazarian, and family.

A family trust connected to Los Angeles hotelier Sam Nazarian has sold its 6,080-square-foot penthouse in Related’s posh 42-story Century building for $15.2 million, or $2,500 a square foot, The ...

After leaving the ADL, she will be returning to running the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation, which provides grants to educational initiatives. She will remain involved, ...

Following the turmoil of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Nazarian and his family fled Iran and settled in Los Angeles, with numerous family members living for months in three rented hotel rooms.

Nazarian was also subjected to the humiliation of acknowledging, under questioning, that he had fathered a child out of wedlock and did not want his family to find out about it.

Hotelier Sam Nazarian has agreed to sell his minority stake in the SLS Las Vegas hotel and for his company to give up management of the money-losing property on the Las Vegas Strip.

Sam Nazarian, center, ... Stockbridge said Mr. Nazarian, his family and company could retain their 10% stake in the SLS Las Vegas but that Mr. Nazarian no longer would be involved in management.

And, Nazarian apologized to his family and longtime friends for the public airing of his personal failings. “My parents are disappointed, but they are very supportive,” Nazarian said of his ...