Inside Chris Tawil’s Former Malibu Beach House
By Mae Hamilton of The Dirt |
Cosmetics baron Chris Tawil is an expert at making huge sums of money very quickly. Back in 2008, he and his business partner sister Linda Tawil were middle-class San Fernando Valley residents; that year, they founded Morphe Brushes, which began with a tiny retail shop in Burbank. In 2013, the pair launched Morphe’s cosmetics arm, which quickly became YouTube-famous for its many lucrative collabs with top influencers most famously Jeffree Star, Jaclyn Hill, and James Charles. By 2017, the brother-and-sister duo had sold a majority stake in Morphe for hundreds of millions to a San Francisco private equity firm; 2019 brought a growth investment from General Atlantic that reportedly valued Morphe at north of $2 billion. And the Bugatti-driving Tawils are now two of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the greater L.A. area.