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Jason Oppenheim

American real estate broker, attorney, influencer and reality TV personality

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ52990503
Source-derived summary

Jason Oppenheim (born April 12, 1977) is an American real estate broker and television personality. He is the president of the Oppenheim Group, a real estate brokerage based in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, and appears on the Netflix reality television series Selling Sunset and its spin-off Selling the OC.

Early life and education

Oppenheim and his twin brother, Brett, grew up in Northern California and attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Before working in real estate, Oppenheim worked as an attorney in Los Angeles and represented the former chief executive officer of Enron Corporation in the Enron criminal trial.

According to Time, the Oppenheim Group was relaunched in 2013, and its Sunset Boulevard office opened in 2014.

Oppenheim has appeared on other real estate television programs, including Million Dollar Listing and Beautiful Homes & Great Estates.

Television

Selling Sunset, created by Adam DiVello, follows agents at the Oppenheim Group.

Selling the OC, a spin-off series centered on the Oppenheim Group's Orange County office, debuted on August 24, 2022.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jason Oppenheim” is american real estate broker, attorney, influencer and reality TV personality. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jason, Oppenheim and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2013, 2014, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-04-12. For this dossier, Jason, Oppenheim and American is the immediate research focus.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52990503. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2013, 2014 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Jason Oppenheim” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.