Dominic Renda

Dominic Phillip Renda, Jr. was born on December 17, 1964, in the then sleepy beach town of Santa Monica, California, to Patricia Marie Renda, a former beauty pageant queen and Dominic Phillip Renda, an aviation pioneer, airline chairman and attorney. Dominic has an older sister Dominique who is a professional writer, photographer life coach and a younger brother Patrick who is an investment executive. His father was a first generation American of Italian immigrant parents and his mother is of English, Irish, German and Dutch ancestry. The family lived in the west Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood until his parents divorced in 1973, when Dominic and his siblings moved with his mother to the small beach community of Pacific Palisades.