Josh Flagg was born to his parents, Michael Flagg and Cindy Flagg, on August 20, 1985. He and his older sister were raised in Los Angeles, California.
Growing up in LA, the realtor attended a private school in the Brentwood section, Brentwood School. In 2003, he left the school and joined Beverly Hills High School and graduated the following year.
He comes from a family tree with deep philanthropic roots. His grandmother, Marjorie Platt, was a prominent Los Angeles social circuit member and a dedicated philanthropist.
Flagg is deeply attached to both sets of his grandparents -The Platts and The Flaggs.
Mother Cindy Flagg
Cindy was born to Marjorie and Herman Platt in 1948 in Los Angeles, California. She is the granddaughter of Benjamin Platt, an American philanthropist and the founder of Platt Music Corporation.
Her mother, Marjorie, was also a devoted philanthropist who, with her husband, supported many local Jewish charitable institutions, such as Sinai Temple, City of Hope, and American Jewish University (AJU).
Her father, Herman, was a key supporter and fundraiser for the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the City of Hope National Medical Center, the UCLA Foundation, and the Jewish Home for the Aging.
Cindy studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her degree in 1970. She attended Loyola Law School and later worked as an attorney in Century City at Greenberg, Weiss, Rosen, Fern, and Bernhard from 1981 until 1985.
She then joined Edith Flagg Inc as an in-house counsel and worked until 2000. She has one brother, Kenneth Platt, and three sisters, Barbara Platt, Susan Platt Baggley, and producer Nancy Platt Arent Jacoby.
Father Michael Flagg
Michael is the son of Edith Flagg, an Austrian-born American fashion designer and philanthropist. She married Hans Stein (Michael's father) in 1983 after moving to the Netherlands.
After the German invasion, she didn't leave the Netherlands instead took the identity of the deceased Lydia Voskuilen. Soon she became pregnant with her first child (Michael).
After giving birth, she hid the baby in a sanitarium and disguised as a nurse to visit him. Michael's father, Stein, was captured by Germans and sent to Auschwitz camp, where he was killed in 1944.
After his passing, Edith started working within the Dutch underground resistance where she met Erich Simon Flegenheimer, her second husband (later known as Eric Flagg). They married after the war.
Her spouse moved to the US while Edith and Michael stayed in Palestine. The mother and son later followed Eric to the US and while he worked in New York, the mother and son moved to San Francisco and lived with Han's parents.
She and Eric then moved to LA in 1949 with their son.
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