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Rhoda May Knight Rindge, (b. 1864, d. 1941), [1] also known as May Rindge [2] or May K., was an American businesswoman. She was known as the Queen of Malibu [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as well as the Founding Mother of Malibu [ 5 ] and L.A.'s first high-profile female environmentalist. [ 3 ]
Frederick Rindge and his wife, Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941), went to Los Angeles in 1887, when it was still a frontier. There, he was successful in various business ventures, including founding the Conservative Life Insurance Company and the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company. [8] Rindge became one of the wealthiest men in the state.
In 1887 Rindge married 22-year-old Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941) of Michigan. They moved to Wilshire and Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica and then built a home at 2263 Harvard Boulevard in Los Angeles, known today as the Frederick Hastings Rindge House; weekends and summers were spent at their Malibu estate. [18]
Kristen Stewart Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Kristen Stewart is proving that pants are not a requirement when it comes to the red carpet. The 33-year-old actress attended the Los Angeles premiere of ...
Frederick and wife Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter, Rhoda Agatha, commissioned Malibu's Adamson House with her husband, Merritt Adamson. The Rindge family fortune has been valued at US$700 million in 2016 dollars accounting for inflation [8] and were close friends of the Roosevelt family. [9]
One of the two defendants, Carl Anthony Knight, was sentenced to life in 1999 but released from prison in January 2021 after serving about 22 years in the drug case.
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