Eddie Nash

Eddie Nash
Born	June 1929 (age 87) Ramallah, Palestine
Occupation	Gangster, drug dealer, nightclub owner

Eddie Nash (born Adel Gharib Nasrallah in June 1929 ) is a former nightclub and restaurant owner in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted gangster and drug dealer; he is best known as the alleged mastermind of the Wonderland Murders.

Born Adel Gharib Nasrallah in Palestine, Nash claims he left the country because IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers gunned down his brother-in-law and narrowly missed him. His family are Orthodox Christian Palestinians from the city of Ramallah, just outside Jerusalem.

In the nonfiction book by John Gilmore, L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times, Gilmore states that Nash told his lawyer he had dreams filled with muzzle flashes and bullets soaring over his head. Nash said he owned several hotels in 1948, when he was 19 years old. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1950s, and developed a limp. Nash acted in the television series The Cisco Kid in 1952, in "The Quarter Horse" episode as the character "Nash." He bought several nightclubs in Los Angeles, such as the P.J.'s club (shortly after renamed Starwood) in West Hollywood, the Soul'd Out club in Hollywood, the Odyssey disco,the Paradise Ballroom, the Seven Seas, Ali Baba’s and The Kit Kat strip club. Nash's clubs attracted diverse groups, as he operated clubs marketed towards gays, straights, blacks, whites and others.

Nash is most notorious for his involvement in the quadruple Wonderland Murders in 1981, the possible retaliation for a robbery of Nash's home perpetrated two days earlier by three to five men. A key player in the incident, porn performer John C. Holmes, was later acquitted of the murders. Nash and Holmes were close friends; Nash enjoyed introducing his countless houseguests to Holmes, who was infamous for playing the X-rated movie character "Johnny Wadd."

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