She says the Medranos were in Calabasas before the Kardashians. Here is everything we know about the family behind the claim.
Emma Medrano’s Calabasas Legacy
One of the first things Emma Medrano establishes on “Calabasas Confidential” is that her family did not arrive in Calabasas chasing celebrity. They were already there.
“I would say that the Medranos are a Calabasas legacy,” she tells the cameras in Episode 1. “We were here before the Kardashians, and we like to own that. My grandpa came to Calabasas in the ’80s. He loves to say how the Kardashians follow him wherever he goes. He’s like, ‘I’m the face of Calabasas, not them.’”
It is delivered with the dry confidence of someone who has heard the family joke her whole life and fully believes it. And in the context of a show built around wealth, fame, and who belongs where, the claim lands differently than it might elsewhere. Emma is not a nepo baby. She does not have a famous last name. What she has is roots — and on “Calabasas Confidential,” she treats that as its own kind of currency.
Who are Emma Medrano’s Parents?
Emma’s parents have not been publicly identified by name, and neither Emma nor the show has shared details about them beyond what surfaces in her family references on screen. What is clear from the show is that the Medrano family has been established in the Calabasas area for decades, with Emma’s grandfather arriving in the 1980s and the family building a life there long before the neighborhood became synonymous with the Kardashian name.
Who Is Emma Medrano’s Grandfather
Emma’s grandfather is the anchor of the family’s Calabasas story, but he has not been publicly named or identified beyond what Emma shares on the show. What she tells the cameras is that he came to Calabasas in the 1980s — well before the Kardashian family moved to the adjacent Hidden Hills community and put the area on the cultural map. His running joke about the Kardashians following him is clearly a family staple, the kind of line that gets repeated at dinners and has been for years.
The broader context matters here. The Kardashian family moved to Hidden Hills — which borders Calabasas — in the mid-2000s, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered in 2007. Before that, Calabasas was already a wealthy, established enclave in the Santa Monica Mountains, home to executives, athletes, and longtime Los Angeles families who built there quietly and well before the cameras arrived. Emma’s grandfather was part of that world.
Whether he is a recognizable name in his own right is not something the show or any public record has confirmed. What Emma’s reference establishes is something more specific: that the Medranos did not come to Calabasas because it was famous. They came before it was.
Why the Legacy Claim Matters on the Show
In a cast full of celebrity children and social media followings, Emma’s Calabasas identity is one of the few things that is entirely hers. She did not inherit a famous parent’s name or platform. She grew up in the zip code the old-fashioned way — her family was simply from there — and she came back after college with a business degree, a job at Mercedes-Benz of Calabasas, and a clear sense of where she stands.
The legacy framing also quietly reframes how Emma sees the rest of the group. The people who treat Calabasas as a status symbol are, by her logic, newer to it than she is. That perspective shapes everything from how she carries herself at parties to how little patience she has for being treated like an outsider in a place her family predates by decades.
What Is Emma Medrano Doing Now?
Emma works as a customer relations manager at Mercedes-Benz of Calabasas, where she manages customer relations, social media presence, and event coordination. She has over 80,000 TikTok followers and has spoken on the show about plans to launch her own swimwear line. She is one of the few cast members whose professional identity is entirely independent of her family name or her social media following — which, given the company she keeps on Calabasas Confidential, is its own kind of statement.
Calabasas Confidential Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.
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