America’s richest restaurateur returns to town after once reportedly working as a “boilermaker” in LA.
Hollywood loves a new free-spending tycoon in town — from Texas oil-drill heir Howard Hughes in the 1920s to Amazon billionaire , founder and CEO of chicken finger empire Raising Cane’s, which he started in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at age 22.
Now worth $22 billion according to Forbes, Graves quietly bought a $23 million mansion in cash next door to his close pal, , in the Hollywood Hills’ elite Bird Streets enclave. , the CEO of SBE, the hospitality brand behind the SLS Hotel chain as well as Hyde. Graves’ new home also appeared on HBO’s “Entourage,” and we hear it’s going to now be the site of some truly A-list bashes.Jaylen Brown's 'blocked' All-Star bash was at Oakley founder's $65M mansion, while nearby Kenny 'The Jet' Smith party was slam dunkAmerica’s richest restaurateur — with 900 Raising Cane’s locations in 42 states — returns to town after once reportedly working as a “boilermaker” in LA, “manning welding equipment and blow torches at oil refineries,” according to Forbes. Graves hasn’t backed any films, but he does reportedly write many of his chains’ campaigns, and as a kid was, “daydreaming of moving to Hollywood and pushing a broom to get his foot in the door at a movie studio,” Forbes wrote.He has also been amassing an army of celeb party pals. Graves took over and redesigned an entire hotel — including 131 rooms and suites — for the Super Bowl to host a weekend of events in San Francisco.Tobey Maguire We’ve also reported how Graves’ chicken brand previously paid DiCaprio’s “One Battle After Another” co-star , who owned Michael Jackson’s infamous Neverland estate. Burkle is now behind the Soho House clubs and has dabbled in the biz with Getty Images for Raising Cane's
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