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Nile Niami

American former film producer turned real estate developer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ22279399
Source-derived summary

Nile Niami (born February 25, 1968) is an American former film producer turned real estate developer, who has developed and sold multimillion-dollar mansions in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel Air and Holmby Hills.

Early life

Niami was born in 1968 in Los Angeles, California. He was raised by a single mother, a special education teacher.

Career

Niami started his career as a film producer. He produced 15 films, many of them B movies, before he started developing small condominiums and renovating homes to sell.

As a real estate developer in Los Angeles, Niami developed a mansion in Holmby Hills which he sold to a Saudi buyer for US$44 million. He developed another house in Holmby Hills, which was purchased by music mogul Sean Combs for US$39 million in 2014. He also hired architect Paul McClean to build a house for the Winklevoss twins Cameron and Tyler in the Bird Streets (north of Sunset Boulevard). He developed a house in Trousdale Estates, a neighborhood in the city of Beverly Hills, with "a spinning car turntable, similar to those in auto showrooms, that's visible from the living room."

Niami launched Wolfpack, a mobile app for single men looking for friends; it is no longer available.

"The One"

Niami began construction on a mega-mansion in Bel-Air named "The One" in 2014, which was also designed by Paul McClean.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nile Niami” is american former film producer turned real estate developer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nile, Niami and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968. For this dossier, Nile, Niami and American is the immediate research focus.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22279399. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Nile Niami” 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.