As one of the most talked-about figures, Kelly Wearstler has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.
What is Kelly Wearstler's Net Worth?
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Brad and Kelly married in 2002, the same year she performed all of the interior design for the family's newly re-launched Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica. Her work at the Viceroy was a huge success and put Kelly on the interior design map.
Kelly Wearstler is an American interior designer who has a net worth of $150 million. Kelly Wearstler has earned accolades for doing the interior design work for a number of hotels around the world. The New Yorker called Wearstler "the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design."
Brad is a scion to a highly successful real estate and hotel development family that today oversees a holding company called the Kor Group that today oversees $3 billion in real estate/hotel assets. Interestingly, the family's initial fortune was earned by Brad's father, Ewin Korzern, who at one point owned the nation's largest chain of bowling alleys.
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Kelly was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on November 21, 1967. She started collecting vintage clothing and furniture when she was in high school. After earning an BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, with a focus on graphic design and architecture, Kelly moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s to pursue a career in interior design. To make ends meet she modeled and worked as an assistant on various entertainment projects. In September 1994, using the name Kelly Gallagher, she landed a spot as Playmate of the Month, in Playboy Magazine.
Kelly has established the design and lifestyle experiences of both domestic as well as international resorts and hotels, including the Viceroy properties in Santa Monica, Palm Springs, and Miami. She also redesigned the two Beverly Hills, CA resorts; the Avalon and Maison 140. She has worked extensively with the Proper Hotel Group which has several locations. It should be noted that Kelly's husband's family owns several of the hotels that she has designed for including all of the Viceroy and Proper Hotels. More on this later in the article.
The following year, 1995, Kelly launched her own interior design business. Not long after she met Brad Korzen.
Brad hired Kelly to do design work at several of the family's hotels and his own personal residence.
Ultimately, Kelly Wearstler's financial journey is a testament to their success.
Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.
