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Merage family

Iranian Jewish family in California

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Iranian Jewish family in California

FieldValue
nameThe Merage Family
خانوادهٔ معراج
estateOrange County, California
originIran (Persia)
regionUnited States

خانوادهٔ معراج

The Merage family (, ) is a wealthy Iranian Jewish family residing in Orange County, California. In 2004 the Merage Jewish Community Center opened in Irvine, California; the center was named after the Merage Family and serves the needs of Orange County.

David and Paul Merage co-founded Chef America Inc. where they created the popular microwavable snack Hot Pockets in the early 1980s. The brothers later sold the Chef America Inc. company to Nestlé for $2.6 billion. Hot Pockets were manufactured in Englewood, Colorado, Chef America's former headquarters, until moving its business to the rest of Nestlé's frozen business in Solon, Ohio.

Paul Merage's daughter Michelle Janavs, a food executive who was at one point regarded as the Hot Pockets "heiress," was later implicated in the notorious Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal and later sentenced in February 2020 to five months in prison after pleading guilty to paying Rick Singer $100,000 to fix ACT scores for her two daughters so they could be admitted into the University of Southern California.

References

References

  1. [http://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/66702/ Jewish Journal: "Photo Essay: L.A.’s Iranian Jews repaying Alliance’s generosity" by Karmel Melamed] November 2, 2008
  2. "Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, California".
  3. "Meet Our Leaders". University of California, Irvine.
  4. (30 April 2008). "Special Lecture by David Merage, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder, Chef America". [[MIT]].
  5. (February 6, 2012). "Nestle to Move HOT POCKETS® and LEAN POCKETS® Business to Ohio". [[PR Newswire]].
  6. Garrison, Joey. (February 25, 2020). "Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs gets 5 months in prison in admissions scandal". USA Today.
  7. (February 25, 2020). "Admissions scandal: Heir to Hot Pockets fortune sentenced to 5 month". Los Angeles Times.
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