Selling Sunset star Amanza Smith dishes on the Oppenheim Group staff's true feelings about their boss Jason

Daily Mail​

25-04-2025

Selling Sunset star has revealed the Netflix cast's true feelings about their boss Jason Oppenheim romancing a string of younger women.
The real estate agent said she and her co-stars, which include fellow Oppenheim employees Chrishell Stause, Mary Fitzgerald, and Nicole Young, bear no judgment towards Jason, 48, whom they have all previously dated.
In an exclusive interview, Amanza teased the new season of Selling Sunset, saying it will be even more explosive than the last instalment.
Since the end of series eight, which featured storylines like the breakdown of Chelsea Lazkani 's marriage, Jason has entered into a new relationship with model Jessica Vargas, who's also an employee at the real estate agency.
The multimillionaire split from 27-year-old model Marie-Lou Nurk in 2023 and has since had flings with TikToker Danika Tanya and pro tennis player Genie Bouchard, 31.
However, Amanza insists that the stars of Selling Sunset support Jason's active dating life and says the property tycoon has 'earned' his right to romance whoever he chooses.
Amanza said: 'Jason is doing amazing and has earned his right to date whoever he wants. He's the hardest working man that I know and a total charmer.
'Look, I dated Jason, that came out in the reunion, everybody's dated Jason. He's a really great guy.
'He has a new girlfriend now called Jessica and we all absolutely adore her. She is beautiful and really intelligent and a great human.
'He's particular, he always has beautiful young girlfriends, but they're not dummies, he's got a really good sense of taste for the women that he dates. We just cheer him on. Good for him.'
The mother-of-two, 48, added that the cast would be hypocritical if they judged Jason for dating younger women when Chrishell is married to Australian singer G Flip, 31, who is 12 years her junior.
She continued: 'Nobody is telling anybody else in the office or watching the age of who someone else is dating. Chrishell's partner is a lot younger than she is, and everybody is cool with that.'
The new series of Selling Sunset, which is set for release later this year, will see the return of Bre Tiesi, who has two-year-old son Legendary with Nick Cannon.
Last season, Bre broke the news that she suspected Chelsea's ex-Jeff Lazkani, with whom she has two children, had been cheating on her, after being told information by a friend.
Chelsea, who previously clashed with Bre over her being in an open relationship with Nick, known for having 12 children with six different women, has since divorced her husband and her life as a single woman will be revealed on the programme.
Amanza teased that the upcoming episodes will expose a brand-new feud between Chelsea and Mary.
She said: 'Last season was Chelsea's divorce, which was a big one.
'This series I am not directly involved in so much of it, even more so than usual I have really stayed clear.
'But there is just as much drama, I don't feel it as much as Mary, who I know is really going through it, she and Chelsea have some beef, Bre with everyone, Nicole with the girls, it's just a lot of the same and then a little bit more...'
Amanza is nervously anticipating the reveal of an explosive scene between her and an unnamed co-star after she admitted to being 'triggered' and losing her 's***'.
She said: 'I won't say exactly what happens or with who, but I get really passionate and speak very clearly about something that was said by one of the girls.
'It's a very passionate scene and I was triggered by a moment I didn't agree with, and I let them have it, which is something you don't see a lot.
'I lost my s*** and everyone saw me lose my s***. I don't know how they're going to edit it, if it comes across like I lose my s*** or if I'm just passionate. I don't know what it's going to look like but in the moment, I was very heated, and it was a big deal.'
Feuds on the show have nearly seen fan favourite Chrishell quit after the animosity between her and rival Nicole reached an all-time high.
Revealing that she was paid more money to stay, Chrishell confirmed that she will be back for series nine, which Amanza says is a relief because Selling Sunset wouldn't be the same without her.
Amanza added: 'I would hope that nobody in the cast ever steps back completely because it takes all of us to make the show what it is.
'We need everyone as much as a headache that it can be, it's a team and everybody has their different fans and sides they pull from.
'Personally, I love Chrishell. She and I did have our little fallout a couple of seasons ago but we're back and we're as close as ever and I adore her.
'I would hope that she would never step away from the show completely. But who knows, everybody's lives are going in their own direction and maybe she will, but I truly hope not. There's no Selling Sunset without each of the OGs and Chrishell is one of those.'
Amanza, whose new career as a contemporary artist has grown out of her flair for property and interior design, she says painting is the only way she can relax after filming intense scenes.
On Thursday evening, Amanza celebrated the launch of her first European solo exhibition, 404 Humanity Not Found, at London's Grove Gallery.
She began painting as a therapeutic exercise but after a client purchased one of her artworks for thousands of dollars, Amanza turned her 'medicine' into a collection of extraordinary pieces.
Amanza said: 'I have thousands of thoughts running through my head whether that's what I have to do for the day or the week or the month, for myself, the kids, where I am supposed to be, my brain is always constantly busy but when I paint it's like meditation, it's like medicine to me and it's the only thing that calms my brain.'
Amanza continued: 'When you look at my paintings, they're really busy and I think it's just what's inside my head coming out on canvas, which is a little bit scary but it's very therapeutic.
'I wasn't able to really start on this collection until we finished season nine of Selling Sunset because it was too hard to snap out of that mode.
'I have always been creative and enjoyed design and aesthetic, but I never dreamed of being a professional or a contemporary fine artist.
'It fell onto my lap after I got out of the hospital. I was painting therapeutically and a woman reached out and she asked me to be a part of her gallery exhibit and after that it blew up.
'I had one exhibit and sold my first painting for a large amount of money and its one of those dreams I never knew was a dream until it started happening. Now it makes so much sense.'
Amanza, who is set to launch her collection of paintings at Grove Gallery Palma in Mallorca next week, hopes to be successful in Europe so she can move to the UK on a semi-permanent basis.
The star admitted that on eof her main motivations to relocate is British men. She said she finds British men, who regularly appear on her Raya dating profile, attractive.
Amanza continued: 'I am pretty single right now. I am open to meeting somebody. I have been single for a minute. When I got out of the hospital I was dating somebody but that was a short-lived thing. I was highly medicated, and I don't know what happened there, I made a decision which wasn't so wise.
'I have been focused on my artwork because it's a new career. My plan is to sell so many paintings in the UK that they want me here every three months and I could just be international.
'I do like British guys. On my Raya profile it's always British guys or someone from Spain or Italy, just somewhere else not Los Angeles. Maybe I will meet someone while I'm in London or they will come to my exhibition.'