[custom_adv] Larian worked for his father’s small textile business when he was young. In 1971, when he was just 17, Larian immigrated to the U.S. Alone and with little money, he worked as a dishwasher, and earned a degree in engineering from California State University. 8. Larian Came to America Alone at 17 With $750 & Dreams [custom_adv] He is married to Angela Neman who is also of Jewish descent. They have three children: Jason, Jasmin and Cameron. 7. He has two sons and one daughter [custom_adv] By 1993 they had a Power Rangers license and soon Hello Kitty. In the early 1990’s when these brands first came on the scene and by all accounts still popular and big money-makers. By ‘97, the brothers manufactured their own toy, Singing Bouncing Baby. The next year, the business was named Micro-Games America Entertainment (MGA) and Larian’s brother sold his cut of the business, 45 percent to Larian for more than $9 million. 6. He has found MGA Entertainment in 1998 [custom_adv] The billionaire owner of MGA Entertainment Inc., the maker of Bratz dolls, has been on a mission to save as many Toys “R” Us locations as possible. He has backed off on in his efforts to buy 82 stores in Canada, acknowledging that the planned purchase by 82 Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. will settle the matter. Mr. Larian’s recent $675 million bid to pick up 274 of the retailer’s U.S. locations was rejected earlier in April as being insufficient, but he and his investors are said to be making new calculations for another attempt. 5. Now Larian Wants to Save Toys “R” Us [custom_adv] The house has sold for $24.15 million to MGA Entertainment founder and CEO Isaac Larian. The executive behind the popular Bratz dolls, Lalarian swooped in to buy the home after it returned to market last year in a court-ordered partition sale. 4. Isaac Larian paid $24M for Frank Gehry's Borman House [custom_adv] Barbie maker Mattel alleged in 2008 that Larian’s company and in specific a former Mattel employee then working for Larian had stolen the idea for Bratz dolls from Barbie. The following year, an appeals court stayed that order and in 2011, a jury found that not only did Larian not steal Bratz from Mattel, Mattel had itself ripped off toy trade secrets from not just Larian’s company but other toymakers. 3. The Bratz Billionaire Battled Barbie [custom_adv] MGA currently manufactures and produces toys and games, dolls, and some consumer electronics with a product line of household names, households with kids since shortly before the turn of the century that is, with Little Tikes, Bratz, Rescue Pets, Miuchiz, West Coast Choppers, Yummi-Land, Storytime Collection, Market Racers, L.O.L. Surprise line which is huge: shop, trade, watch, play, like, collect, and shop again. 2. Larian’s MGA Entertainment Is the World’s Largest Privately Held Toy Company [custom_adv] Isaac Larian, chief executive of MGA Entertainment, the owner of Little Tikes brand, appears at the chain’s Woodland Hills, California. His net worth is $ 1.76 billion. 1. His net worth $1.76 billion