How does Selling Sunset’s Emma Hernan make her millions, and does she really own a private jet? The Netflix star isn’t just a realtor, but an entrepreneur who spends big on Louis Vuitton – and her dog
- The blondest (and arguably nicest) of all the Netflix Selling Sunset stars, Emma Hernan might also be the show’s most entrepreneurial – investing in food, crypto and property of her own
- Believed to be worth US$3 million, she loves to spend her hard-earned cash on her glamorous wardrobe, her family and her dog Benny – but does she really have her own private jet?
She may seem like the quintessential California girl on Netflix’s Selling Sunset, but Emma Hernan originally hails from the cold and decidedly less glamorous Massachusetts, just outside Boston – and it was a family holiday to LA that inspired her to one day move there, per Forbes.
“I came from very humbling beginnings,” she told Forbes, adding that her father was a firefighter while her mum stayed at home. Both were “hard workers”, which certainly seems to have rubbed off on her: current estimates put Hernan’s fortune at US$3 million, per Cosmopolitan.
Emma Hernan has her own vegan food business
Hernan told several publications that she first invested in the stock market as a teenager, and she did so well that she was able to help cover staffing costs at her parents’ seafood business at age 15. Her investment paid off, and the company – Yankee Trader Seafood – is still going.
Then, inspired to start her own biz, she launched Emma Leigh and Co. during the pandemic, which has since become famous for its vegan empanadas. “I own 100 per cent of my company,” she told Forbes. “I’ve put my entire savings into [it] … I feel really proud.”
She’s an angel investor
