Raphael De Niro

Raphael De Niro (born November 9, 1976) is an American real estate broker and former actor.^[1][2] He often works with celebrity clients, including Jon Bon Jovi,^[3] Renée Zellweger, Travis Kalanick^[4] and Kelly Ripa.^[1] De Niro is the son of actor Robert De Niro and actress Diahnne Abbott.^[2] He has also appeared in several films: Love Streams (1984);^[5] West 4th (2007);^[6] James Abbott is Gone (2013);^[6] Raging Bull (1980); and Awakenings (1990).^[2] De Niro is a broker for Douglas Elliman, and was ranked first in The Real Deal's Manhattan top residential agents in 2017.^[1]

De Niro was born on November 9, 1976, in Los Angeles, but grew up in New York City.^[7] He worked at various summer jobs growing up, including in a Persian rug store, as a doorman,^[2] a production assistant on movie sets for his father, and as a busboy at his father’s restaurant, Nobu. He attended New York University but did not graduate.^[1]

He appeared in films which also starred his father, including Awakenings and Raging Bull.^[2] He produced James Abbott is Gone (2013), the documentary West 4th (2007), and appeared in Love Streams (1984).^[8][9]

Partly because De Niro's grandmother Virginia Admiral^[2] invested in real estate, participating in some of SoHo's first warehouse-to-residential conversions in the 1960s and 1970s, and later his father's involvement, he decided in 2003 to get a real estate broker's license.^[10] During his first six years in real estate, De Niro sold a total of $600 million in properties, becoming one of the top ten sellers each year at Douglas Elliman.^[2] He is the head of the "De Niro Team" at the firm, which is ranked as a top-producing sales team in New York City and in the U.S.^[10] He is a partner with his father Robert De Niro in a five-star boutique hotel in Tribeca, the Greenwich Hotel, launched in 2008.^[10] In 2015, De Niro made headlines, along with fellow Elliman broker Sabrina Saltiel, for holding the listing for New York City's most expensive listing at the time; a trio of townhouses on East 42nd Street, listed as a package for $120 million.^[11][12]

De Niro is a member of the board of directors of the Tribeca Film Institute.^[13]

De Niro married Claudine DeMatos in March 2008.^[14] They separated in 2015^[15] and their divorce was finalized in January 2020. They have three children together.^[15] De Niro married fashion stylist Hannah Carnes in March 2020.^[16]