But he showed up early and stayed late, was promoted to manager and eventually bought out the owner, he said.īetween 1985 and the late 1990s, records show Guetta launched a series of businesses with names such as Vintage Supermarket and Rugsaver: The Vintage Shop, his store on La Brea. He also got a job at a vintage clothing store in Venice, starting out on a ladder to keep an eye out for shoplifters. “I was trying to be an adult right away,” he recalled. After dropping out, he said he started organizing nightclub parties in Hollywood that became popular with the celebrity set. He attended Fairfax High for about a year, despite speaking no English. His father soon returned to France and passed away, leaving Guetta and his siblings to fend for themselves. For months, they stayed in a cheap hotel on Fairfax Avenue - today’s boutique Farmer’s Daughter Hotel - before settling in a nearby apartment.
Public records show his Social Security number was registered in the early 1980s. His mother died when he was a child, and when Guetta was 15, his father moved the family to Los Angeles. Guetta was born in 1966 in Garges-lès-Gonesse, a seedy suburb a half-hour drive north of Paris, the youngest of five children of Tunisian Jews who had moved to France to escape persecution. “In the end, I became his biggest work of art.” “Banksy captured me becoming an artist,” the paint-splattered Guetta said, surrounded by the stacks of art books and pop-culture clutter from which his work is derived - or ripped off, depending on your view. The film suggests that Guetta’s artistic alter ego is largely a creation of Banksy, a notion Guetta doesn’t refute. Of course, it is impossible to prove whether his latest incarnation, Mr. They are also consistent with the accounts of friends, former business associates and employees over those years. The details of Guetta’s unlikely biography are broadly supported by a review of public records, which trace his life in Los Angeles from his arrival as a teenager in the early 1980s. If there was one constant, it was Guetta’s uncanny knack for selling Angelenos the cutting edge of cool. Over cigarettes and McDonald’s fries at his studio on La Brea Avenue last week, Guetta recounted his path from a rough Parisian suburb to California, where he repeatedly reinvented himself - going from teenage nightclub impresario to clothing store owner, filmmaker and, ultimately, pop artist.
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