Early Life
Born Adel Gharib Nasrallah in Palestine, Nash left the country after he claimed Israeli soldiers gunned down his brother-in-law in the street for unknown reasons and narrowly missed him. His family are Orthodox Christian Palestinians from the city of Ramallah, just outside Jerusalem.
In the nonfiction book by John Gilmore, "L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times," Gilmore states that Nash told his lawyer that he had dreams filled with muzzle flashes and bullets soaring over his head. Nash said he owned several hotels until 1948 at age 19. He emigrated to the United States in the early 1950s and developed a limp. Nash acted in the television series The Cisco Kid in 1952, in "The Quarter Horse" episode as the character "Nash." He went on to own several nightclubs in Los Angeles, such as the Starwood Club in West Hollywood, the Soul'd Out club in Hollywood, the Odyssey disco in Beverly Hills, Paradise Ballroom, the Seven Seas, Ali Baba’s and The Kit Kat strip club. Nash's clubs attracted many groups, as he operated clubs marketed towards gays, straights, blacks, whites and others.
For several decades, Adel Nasrallah was the wealthiest and most dangerous drug dealer/gangster operating on the West Coast (MacDonell 2003).
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