All AboutSelling SunsetStars Jason and Brett Oppenheim

Mar. 15, 2025

Brett Oppenheim (left) and Jason Oppenheim at the People’s Choice Awards on February 18, 2024 in Santa Monica, California.Photo:Michael Buckner/WWD/Getty

Michael Buckner/WWD/Getty

They are best known for their roles on Netflix’s hit showSelling Sunset, which follows the agents at their Los Angeles-based brokerage, The Oppenheim Group. Over the years, they have amassed a fortune in their industry, reportingmore than $3.5 billion in salesand $500 million in active listings. That said, when they were growing up, the siblings experienced financial struggles, and Jason described the pair as “incorrigible" as kids.

Before they became real estate brokers and reality stars, the identical twin brothers had careers in law. As reality stars, Jason and Brett have shown their personal and professional lives onSelling Sunsetand the spinoffSelling the OC, which follows a group of real estate agents based in Orange County, California.

Jason and Brett have shared stories from their childhood and expressed their appreciation and love for each other — as both brothers and co-workers — in podcast interviews, TED Talks, social media posts and more.

“On our birthday, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a twin brother, best friend and someone who has never left my side,” Brett wrote ina 2021 Instagram post.

Here’s everything to know about the Oppenheim brothers, Jason and Brett.

Jason is the older twin

Jason and Brett Oppenheim as kids.Jason Oppenheim Instagram

Jason Oppenheim Instagram

The brothers are identical twins, but Jason is a few minutes older than Brett. In anInstagram postcelebrating their shared birthday in April 2021, Jason mentioned their age difference.

“Today I was born at 1:17pm, I made sure everything was cool, then Brett came into the world at 1:25pm, after I made sure everything was cool,” he wrote in the post’s caption. “Happy birthday, bro! You’re welcome.”

Brett and Jason Oppenheim.Jason Oppenheim Instagram

“We lacked respect for authority, fought incessantly with our mom, her boyfriend when she had one and each other — a lot,” he said. “We were just frustrated, constantly getting into trouble at home, at school with our teachers."

Jason continued, “We were two kids who felt like they had nothing to lose and we didn’t care much about anything.”

They were sent to a correctional camp at 13

In an effort to help her sons, Jason and Brett’s mom enrolled them in a correctional camp — but told them they were going to a basketball camp.

“We packed gym clothes and were excited about the trip, only to land in Idaho and be handcuffed and taken away to the desert,” Jason said in his 2021 TED Talk, later adding, “That started the worst month of my life. The camp was a living hell. We hiked through the desert eight to 10 hours a day.”

They moved in with their father when they were 16

Brett Oppenheim (left) and Jason Oppenheim at the USWNT Players Ball on December 6, 2023 in Dallas, Texas.Richard Rodriguez/USSF/Getty

Richard Rodriguez/USSF/Getty

The twins were expelled from several high schools before they went to live with their dad, a two-tour Vietnam veteran, who put them on a strict routine.

“Rather than a quick fix, my dad took a different approach,” Jason recalled in his TED Talk. “He threw away all of my baggy clothes, cut my hair, took away my jewelry, took away my cigarettes, and he would wake me up at 5 a.m. to work out with him in the garage.”

After the early morning exercise, Jason said his dad would dress him for school, drop him off and pick him up. The now-realtor then spent afternoons completing his homework at the community college where his dad worked.

They attended UC Berkeley

Jason Oppenheim (left) and Brett Oppenheim pose for a photo prior to the F1 Grand Prix of Las Vegas on November 18, 2023.Denise Truscello - Formula 1/Formula 1/Getty

Denise Truscello - Formula 1/Formula 1/Getty

Jason and Brett went on to attend community college and worked in local restaurants as dishwashers, busboys and waiters. After three years, they both transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, and were the top two students in their graduating class.

In 2023, Jason shared that he and Brett return to speak at UC Berkeley every year.

“My brother and I really enjoy the opportunity each year to go back to our alma mater, UC Berkeley, and speak to the business school class,” hesaid in an Instagram Reel. “It’s exciting for us to see all the energetic students ready to take on the business world. I only hope we can impart some wisdom from our experiences. It certainly feels like a full circle when we took our favorite professor’s class many years ago and now we get to go back as guest speakers.”

Jason originally wanted to be a mechanic

Jason shared in his TED Talk that as a teenager, “All I cared about at the time was working on my vintage Camaro and perhaps becoming a car mechanic.”

He had other career aspirations in childhood, too. In a 2020Instagram post, Jason shared photos of an autobiography he wrote at age 11.

“I apparently wanted to be a pro-bono lawyer and an Olympic volleyball player in my free time,” he captioned the post. “Throw in an athletic and beautiful wife, a large family and a dependable, fast car for good measure!”

They went to law school and became practicing lawyers

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After graduating from UC Berkeley as undergraduates, Jason went to law school there and Brett attended law school at UCLA.

“I have always been an analytical thinker and a career in law seemed like [a] logical progression; that’s what the law represents — intellectual argument, advocacy for your client and critical thinking,” JasontoldSwaggermagazinein a 2020 interview.

Meanwhile, Brett served as a securities litigation attorney at Skadden, Arps LLP (now Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) and Latham & Watkins LLP, according tohis bioon the Oppenheim Real Estate website.

They quit their jobs and traveled the world together

Jason and Brett Oppenheim while traveling.Jason Oppenheim Instagram

Jason and Brett left their law careers to travel the world on and off for three years. Brett quit first, and then Jason followed, and they each packed a 50-pound bag and traveled to 80 different countries.

“I was happy on paper, I wasn’t really happy like in the real world. Maybe a 6.5 on the happiness scale,”Jason told real estate agents Ben Belack and Zach Goldsmithon the podcastTo Live and Buy in Los Angeles.

In December 2023, the brothers shared anInstagram postwith 10 photos from their travels.

“Travel photos from when Brett and I quit our jobs as attorneys to travel the world for three years, visiting 80 countries and more than 200 cities!” Jason wrote in the caption.

They started The Oppenheim Group in 2013

Brett Oppenheim and Jason Oppenheim attend the world premiere of Netflix’s ‘The Gray Man’ on July 13, 2022 in Hollywood, California.Amy Sussman/Getty

Amy Sussman/Getty

When they returned, both Brett and Jason decided to go into real estate — and became the fifth generation in their family to do so. Their great-great-grandfather Jacob Stern was a prominent Los Angeles real estate mogul who founded The Stern Realty Co. in 1889, according to The Oppenheim Group website.

After a few years of real estate experience under their belts, the twins opened The Oppenheim Group together in 2013. At the time, they were working in a two-bedroom house with one intern, whichJason recounted to Jason Tartickon his podcastTrading Secrets.

In March 2019, the first season ofSelling Sunsetpremiered with eight episodes.

Their romantic relationships have made headlines

From left: Mary Fitzgerald, Jason Oppenheim and Chrishell Stause arrive at the MASH Gallery opening of Maggi Hodge Overload exhibition on March 20, 2021.Rodin Eckenroth/Getty

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty

Over the years, the brothers’ relationships have been chronicled onSelling Sunset.

Jason hasdated three agentsfrom The Oppenheim Group: Nicole Young, Mary Fitzgerald andChrishell Stause. During his relationship with Fitzgerald, the couple adopteddogs Zelda and Niko, and Fitzgerald has called Jason “one of my longest and best friends.”

His 2021 relationship with Stausewas a main storyline on the fifth season ofSelling Sunset, but the pair ended things after citing “different wants regarding a family.” Jason later datedMarie-Lou Nurkfor less than a year.

Brett was previously in a relationship with model Tina Louise, butthey broke up in 2021. In 2022, he stepped out withgirlfriend Samantha Abdulamid reports that “at the moment they want to take things slow and see where it takes them.”

source: people.com