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The house where Tony Hsieh suffered his fatal injuries is linked to the Las Vegas arts community.
Rachael Brown, a longtime Zappos employee who is known to be one of Hsieh’s closest confidants, is the listed owner of the house in the small port town of New London, Conn.
Originally from Connecticut, Brown lives in Las Vegas and is a cellist with Nina Di Gregorio’s Bella Electric Strings Ensemble and David Perrico’s Pop Strings Orchestra.
Hsieh died on Friday of injuries he sustained in a home fire on November 18. He was 46 years old.
Brown, considered an accomplished musician, has been booked across the country for over a decade with the Bella lineup. Pop Strings had been headlining weekends for five years at Cleopatra’s Barge at Caesars Palace before COVID. Brown was also part of the Vegas Golden Strings lineup that backed Imagine Dragons on “Whatever It Takes” ahead of Game 2 of the NHL Finals at T-Mobile Arena in May 2018. She performed in the orchestra for the shows Brody Dolyniuk’s rock-symphonic at the Smith Center.
In August, Brown helped organize a musicians trip to a condo near Hsieh’s Estate in Park City. The stay only took place two weeks before Hsieh announced he would resign from Zappos and move to the ski resort. Hsieh organized two tour buses for gamers (one of which was used by Cher, the other by LeAnn Rimes, among other artists), which allowed all passengers to be socially distant.
Perrico and his wife, singer Lily Arce; keyboardist Otto Ehling; violinist Chandra Meibalane; and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Park all took part in the three-day respite. Park was a resident of the Airstream community developed by Hsieh in downtown Las Vegas.
Perrico said there was no agenda in the visit.
“He loved the music, and we were there as guests and we just hung out and stuck,” Perrico said on Saturday. “We didn’t go up there to talk business. We went up there to escape the heat, play music, relax, and hike.
Efforts to reach Brown for comment have failed.
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