Manuchehr Khoshbin, better known as Manny Khoshbin, is an Iranian author, entrepreneur, CEO, real estate agent, investor, and the founder of The Khoshbin Company, Inc. He made a name for himself as a successful businessman. In this article, we will tell you about his personal life, career, and Manny Khoshbin net worth.
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Manny Khoshbin – Early Life
Manny Khoshbin is born on January 14, 1971, in an Iranian family. He was born in Iran and lived there for years with his parents and four other siblings. However, his family moved to the United States of America in 1985 when he was 14 years old.
His family moved to the USA as they wanted to escape the war happening in Iran. They saw many of their close relatives and friends badly injured due to the war. So, they wanted to give their children a better future and moved to the USA.
During the initial years, Manny found it very difficult to adjust to the new environment. He did not know how to speak English fluently and had to take all his classes in English in the school. Due to this, he also got bullied by other people at his school.
First Job
Furthermore, when he was in high school, he got his first job. He got a job selling items on weekends. Then when he turned 16 years old, he got another job at Santa Ana Kmart. Here he needed to collect all the shopping carts and bags from the parking lot and clean the floor.
Moreover, he became one of the famous employees at Kmart quickly. Since many customers loved his style of work, he got promoted to become the assistant manager in the sports department of Kmart.
However, he left this soon after he got promoted to look for better opportunities. He got a job at a multi-level marketing company, and he used to sell snacks and food items from door to door. After few months of working there, he becomes the biggest revenue salesperson in the company.
Small business
During the last year of high school, Manny started to buy nuts and dried fruits in bulk. Then he used it to pack them smaller bags and used to sell those fruits door to door.
However, he did not know he needs to have a health permit to run a food business. Thus, his business was shut down after eight months.
Manny graduated from his school, Westminster High School, in 1989. After graduation, he started to work for Winston Tires, where he was hired as the assistant manager. He used to work 60 hours per week and saved most of his salary.
Career
After working for a few years, he saved enough money and decided to start his own company. One of his father’s friends approached him with a deal to purchase a gas station only at a 10 percent down payment.
However, he came to know that it was a fraud case, and he lost all of his money due to this. After this, Manny tried to get a real estate license to work for a mortgage company for their loan department.
But only six months after working there, he started his own real estate company. Through this, he invested in many bank-owned properties. This added a lot to Manny Khoshbin net worth.
Just after this venture, Manny’s fortunes changed overnight. Also, his wealth grew significantly over all these years. His company’s name is Khoshbin Company, and many different companies came to him for collaboration.
Furthermore, his company has commercial real estate properties that cover more than seven states in the USA. Also, he has about 2.5 million sq. feet of land under his company.
Other than real estate, Manny ventured into other business opportunities. He wants his company to handle a lot of different business ventures.
Television
In December 2012, Manny and his wife Leyla were on the “Secrets of a Trophy Wife,” show airs on TLC. They also appeared on an episode of “Shahs of Sunset.” It is an American reality TC show and airs on Bravo.
Author
Manny wrote his first self-published book on December 28, 2011. It was called “Manny Khoshbin’s Contrarian Playbook,” which is about starting a business in real estate.
In 2018, he published his second book “Driven: The Never-Give-Up Roadmap to Massive Success” and 2021 “Driven LIB/e: The Never-Give-Up Roadmap to Massive Success Manny Khoshbin.” Being a successful author also helped with Manny Khoshbin net worth.
Personal life of Manny Khoshbin
Manny married Canadian-Iranian actress, model, fashion designer, and TV host Leyla Milani. The couple had their first kid together in 2012, Priscilla, a baby girl.
Manny has a unique taste when it comes to the hobby. He loves to collect exotic cars. In 2013 July, he was even featured in a magazine called “Heavy Hitters Magazine” for his lifestyle and car collection.
Car Accident
On March 26, 1995, Manny was driving his car at 100 m.p.h. on the roads of San Diego Freeway. He suddenly lost control of his Mercedes and his car then hit a tree, killing one of the passengers, Bakak Behjati.
There was another passenger who had some minor injuries, but Manny was not at all. Later he was arrested by the police, who suspected he was drunk driving.
Manny Khoshbin net worth
At the age of 49, he is one of the richest and hottest millionaires in the USA. He has ventured into various businesses, but he is dominant in the real estate industry. He built his career from nothing to a multi-millionaire.
As of 2021, Manny Khoshbin net worth is 80 million dollars. He came a long way from some who could not speak English to some who is now a real estate tycoon.
Moreover, his company, Khoshbin Company, has a profit of over 2,200,000 sq. feet., all across the USA.
He came to the USA when he was 14 years old, but he continued to work hard and pushed his way into the business world. Moreover, he made his name by purchasing various properties. Within a few years, he gained enough fortunes making him a millionaire within few years of starting his business. During this time, Manny Khoshbin net worth became more than 40 million dollars.
His House
Manny lives with his family at a mansion in Pelican Hill in California. His house spreads out more than 10,400 sq. feet and has exclusive features such as a gym, wireless audio-visual automation, and a nine-seat cinema room.
Also, it has a guest house designed in Japanese style, furniture, and white marble all over the wall.
Luxury Cars
Khoshbin loves to collect cars and constantly upgrading his collection. Recently he spends 17 million dollars on new vehicles. However, his current collection is valued to be 30 million dollars.
Some of Manny’s car are Koenigsegg Agera RS, McLaren P1, Hermes Bugatti, Chiron, and Porsche Carrera GT. It can be seen this car collection has added to Manny Khoshbin net worth.
How Manny manages family and business?
Balancing his business and family
He said that besides running his own business, he and his wife are also partners for her company. Moreover, he stated that they take that opportunity to have a short vacation whenever they go somewhere for work.
Manny and Leyla do not work on weekends. So, most of their time with their kids. Both try to make time for their top priorities that are their family and work.
Hobbies
He said that one needs some hobbies to lead a happy life. Ever since he was a teenager, he loved cars. Manny bought his first exotic car in the year 1992. It was a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. Ten years later, he started to collect Porches and Ferraris as well. As of right now, he has over 15 cars.
Relatives and extended family
For Manny, family time is vital for him both as a father and an extended family member. He said that he meets with his parents often. He even bought them a ranch in 2004 near Newport Beach.
Moreover, his parents visit him every week for a barbeque and to play cards or backgammon.
Manny Khoshbin wife – Leyla Milani Khoshbin
We have talked about Manny Khoshbin and his successful career. Let’s talk about his wife, Leyla, who is also successful in her profession.
On April 2, 1982, Leyla was a Canadian-Iranian TV host, actress, entrepreneur, and model. Both her parents are from Iran, and she was born in Tehran.
In 2005 she appeared in various shows such as WWE Diva Search, Desire, 2006 Lingerie Bowl, Attack of the Show, Entourage, Deal or No Deal, Rules of Engagement, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Sleeper Cell, Wanted, Las Vegas, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Stacked, and Extra.
Furthermore, she has appeared in some movies such as Dr. Chopper, Boys and Girls Guide To Getting Down, and Wrestle maniac.
Also, Maxim magazine featured Leyla and her co-stars from Deal or No Deal models in Girls on Maxim, an online game.
Professional career in wrestling
Leyla was one of the participants of WWE Diva Search, and she was the 1st runner-up out of eight thousand contestants. After that, Leyla also appeared at Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and After School Special. Furthermore, she kept using her stage name, Leyla Milani, after appearing in WWE Diva Search.
Moreover, she appeared on WWE Raw Fan Nation (USA Network) commercials. These were a series of ads that advertise WWE Raw and featured various famous people, from Snoop Dogg to a stockbroker.
Besides, she was the former co-host of Wrestlicious Take Down. It was an all-woman wrestling show, and her co-host was Jimmy Hart. The first episode of the show aired on March 1, 2010.
However, due to schedule, Brooke Lynn took her place from March 31, 2010.
Deal or No Deal (from 2005 to 2009)
Leyla was one of the famous models on the prime-time game series Deal or No Deal (2005 – 2009), aired on NBC. Moreover, she was mainly known for the “lioness-like” mane and was #13 from the beginning of this series.
Even though 13 is considered the unluckiest number, Leyla was frequently referred to as the “Lucky 13” or “Lucky Leyla” on the show. Often, her case had six digits number, and in 8 instances, it had $1,000,000, which was the top prize.
Furthermore, Leyla and her fellow model from Deal or No deal won a Game Show Network Award in the “Favourite TV Models” category. Also, on June 6, 2009, she and four other models accepted the award on GSN. Moreover, Deal or No Deal won the “Favourite Game Show” at The People’s Choice Award for two consecutive years.
Leyla and a few other models also made a special appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Moreover, Oprah liked Leyla’s case (which was 8 in this show) cause Oprah has a dog named Leyla.
Besides, she also appeared on Split Ends which aired on Style Network. Also, on one celebrity episode of Catch 21, which was GSN’s game series. She announced that she recently launched her hair extension line called “Milani Hair” in this show.
Milani Hair
Leyla created her own haircare luxury company called Leyla Milani Hair in 2009. She stated that the hair extension was 100 percent human hair and of premium quality clip-on or extensions.
The company is located in Irvine in California, and is a part of the Kosh Milani Enterprises LLC. Moreover, as of 2009, her company has five employees.
Final thoughts
Manny Khoshbin has come a long way to become the successful man he is today. He started working when he was just a high school student and started his own business after a few years.
Now he has his own company, Khoshbin Company. Moreover, as of now, his real estate property covers almost seven states in the USA. He even ventured into other businesses as he wants to grow his organization. Today Manny Khoshbin net worth is $80 million.
