Article: Mr. Big: Sam Nazarian's proposed empire of hotels, clubs, and restaurants--and a partnerships with designer Philippe Starck--could make him nightlife's next king.

WHEN SAN NAZARIAN decided to reach the Paris designer Philippe Starck by phone and ask him to come to Los Angeles and draw up plans for a nightclub or a restaurant for him, he had yet to purchase Madonna's Maverick Records headquarters on Beverly Boulevard, where his company SBE is now based. Nor had he picked up, for $11 million, Jennifer Lopez's Mulholland Drive house, where today he lives among eight and a half bathrooms and all the furniture the actress left behind, or acquired Harvey Weinstein's old Miramax building, where Nazarian will relocate SBE's film division once his movies with Edward Norton and Laurence Fishburne are completed. Neither had he bought out RJ's ...

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