Duangpatra Bodiratnangkura and Her Life Between Bangkok and Los Angeles

Property development and a historic family name

Duangpatra Bodiratnangkura, known as Dang, built a property-development career in Los Angeles while carrying a family history closely tied to Bangkok. She is a great-granddaughter of entrepreneur Nai Lert Sreshthaputa and the wife of Olympic figure-skating champion Evan Lysacek. Her work and ancestry were established parts of her public identity before their December 2019 wedding.

Her birthday is 1 April, the date on which Evan proposed in Miami. A dependable birth year is not established here.

The Nai Lert inheritance of history

Nai Lert’s businesses included ice, transport, and property ventures in Bangkok. His name also became attached to Nai Lert Park, a setting that later played a central part in Dang’s wedding celebrations.

Her grandmother, Thanpuying Lursakdi Sampatisiri, was a hotelier and business leader who served as Thailand’s first woman transport minister in 1976. The family history therefore includes public service alongside commercial enterprise.

I see that background as context, not a ready-made description of Dang’s own job. A family business can be a broad canopy under which relatives take quite different paths. Her sister Naphaporn became closely associated with leadership of the Bangkok group, while Dang’s documented work developed in the United States.

Their mother is named Sanhapit in the family account. Her father’s name and the names of every sibling are not securely established in the material available here.

Sisters and education abroad

Dang and her younger sister Naphaporn, known as Lek, attended Queenswood, a girls’ boarding school in England. The exact calendar year is unclear, but the shared school chapter is part of their documented upbringing.

Lek later studied hotel management at the University of Surrey and returned to Bangkok in the early 2000s. She became a public operating figure in the Nai Lert businesses. Those responsibilities belong to her career, rather than automatically to Dang’s.

Another sister, Patcharavipa Bodiratnangkura, established a jewelry-design house. The couple’s wedding rings came from that family creative connection. A brother is mentioned in the wider family outline, although his name is not confirmed here.

Developing houses in Los Angeles

By 2020, Dang was described as having spent about 15 years in Los Angeles. Her development work included high-end houses in areas such as Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Santa Monica, as well as smaller projects and rental properties.

One particularly ambitious Bel Air project drew attention in December 2018. The house, designed by architect Zoltan Pali, used three wings arranged to suggest an airplane propeller. Its reported size was 18,850 square feet, with nine bedrooms and 15 bathrooms.

The property was offered at $56 million. An entity she controlled had reportedly bought the site for about $6 million in 2014, followed by roughly four years of construction. Those numbers fall into distinct categories: acquisition cost, construction period, and asking price. None is a confirmed sale price or personal net worth.

The project was described as her largest at that point. It gives her professional story a concrete scale without requiring an invented portfolio total.

Meeting Evan Lysacek

Dang and Evan met through friends around 2010 or 2011, after his Olympic victory. Their relationship did not proceed continuously from that first introduction. They reconnected later, with the relationship leading to marriage developing roughly a year and a half before the wedding.

Evan proposed in Miami on 1 April 2019. Their accounts emphasized friendship, care, and a sense that the timing had finally aligned. I find that chronology more revealing than compressing the relationship into a simple instant-romance story.

The couple also spoke about joining Thai and Western customs in their lives. Their joking description of each becoming half of the other’s culture expressed a shared outlook, not a literal claim about ancestry.

A Bangkok wedding with several gatherings

They married on 12 December 2019, and their rings carried the inscription 12.12. The celebrations combined a ceremony involving Buddhist monks, a luncheon at the Siam Society, a reception at Nai Lert Park, and an after-party.

Attendance varied by gathering: about 70 at the ceremony, 120 at the luncheon, and 300 at the reception. Dang wore a traditional Thai outfit and a gold-and-diamond belt her mother had worn at her own wedding decades earlier.

That belt joined personal memory to a large public occasion. The celebrations also included Western fashion and guests from diplomatic and prominent Thai circles. No later child announcement, separation, or comparable family milestone is confirmed in this account.

FAQ

Who is Duangpatra Bodiratnangkura?

She is a Thai real-estate developer known as Dang, a member of the Nai Lert family, and the wife of Evan Lysacek.

When did she marry Evan Lysacek?

They married in Bangkok on 12 December 2019. Their celebrations combined Thai and Western elements across several events.

What is her relationship to Nai Lert?

She is his great-granddaughter. Her grandmother was business leader and former transport minister Lursakdi Sampatisiri.

Is the Bel Air asking price her net worth?

No. The $56 million figure was a reported 2018 property asking price. Her personal net worth is not reliably established.

Does she run the Nai Lert hotel group?

Her documented professional path centers on Los Angeles property development. Her sister Naphaporn is the family member closely identified with leadership of the Bangkok business.