Fitzgerald Tops Area in Overall Value of Deals.VALERIE Fitzgerald ended up in the real estate business pretty much by happenstance hap·pen·stance n. A chance circumstance: "Marriage loomed only as an outgrowth of happenstance; you met a person" Bruce Weber. . For years she had been an Eileen Ford model for major accounts such as Coppertone suntan lotion suntan lotion sun n → lotion f or lait m solaire suntan lotion sun n → Sonnenmilch f . She modeled in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Paris and Milan. By her early 30s, she had appeared in some 200 television commercials. But modeling can't pay the bills forever. So Fitzgerald, a single mother with a 3-monthold daughter, rented out her New York apartment and took a job with Revlon in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Soon afterward, a management change eliminated her division and she was stuck without a job. "A friend of mine said, 'You're going to sell real estate,' and that was 13 years ago," said the 47-year-old real estate broker, who used to bring her toddler to work at her first job with Stan Herman & Associates. "I didn't know contracts. I didn't even know my way around." Now Fitzgerald has six assistants and sold $120.5 million of real estate last year. Her clients have included EarthLink co-founder Kevin O'Donnell For the science fiction writer, see Kevin O'Donnell, Jr Kevin O'Donnell was the fourth Director of Peace Corps serving from July 1, 1971 to September 30, 1972. Early life O’Donnell grew up in Cleveland and was educated at St. , who last year sold his Malibu home for close to $8.5 million; Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen (person) Marc Andreessen - The man who founded Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1994 with Dr. James H. Clark. Andreessen has been a director since September 1994. and the late actor Walter Matthau. Last year, the most expensive home Fitzgerald sold went for $22 million, and that one followed a home sale for $14.75 million. "I never thought I would be this successful," said Fitzgerald, who has worked hard at balancing her career with being a single mother. She leaves the office every evening at 6:30 to have dinner with her teen-age daughter, Vanessa. RESIDENTIAL BROKER, DOLLAR VOLUME Winner VALERIE FITZGERALD Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Runners Up JEFFREY HYLAND Hilton & Hyland RAJU CHHABRIA Shorewood Realtors Inc. |
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