Eliza Dushku and chess

I recently read this:

DUSHKU'S CHESS LESSONS

TV beauty Eliza Dushku has found an unconventional way to unwind at the end of a long day at work - she's taking chess lessons in a nightclub.
The 28-year-old actress picked up the hobby while in Los Angeles shooting new TV show Dollhouse.
And she's learning her chess moves from a family member who happens to be a grandmaster and a Hollywood club boss.
The former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star reveals, "We work 14, 16 hour days. I don't really like to go out and party, but I like to be around people. And my godfather has a nightclub in Hollywood and he's a chess grandmaster; so I go there after work and he teaches me how to play to chess in his office."

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/dushkus-chess-lessons_1094950

So does anyone know who this chess grandmaster who lives in Hollywood and owns a nightclub?  It sounds like anyone who knows how to play chess is suddenly a grandmaster.  I think she would be better off playing chess online here, and perhaps be our millionth member.

LOL. Here is the list of active players in CA. Good luck.

http://main.uschess.org/datapage/top-players2.php?state=CA&limit=&players=A&current=C

Correction. Highest rated players.

SA Zug

Thank you for the correction. Do you have any leads on Bill's question?

i don't believe that in Los Angeles and in Hollywood they play chess! especially a young actress :(

if i would once live in there i never would play chess :) there's too many other cool things to do!

this my post is not against chess, it's for the truth of life and its challenges :)

could somebody invite that actress to chess.com or she is destined to play with her old brother, isn't she?

She's just trying to appeal to her nerdy Buffy/Dollhouse fanbase.

She wants to appear as one of them.

Next she'll say she still lives in her mom's basement and stays up all night watching Star Trek marathons while pleasuring herself to a lifesized poster of Buffy/Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku.