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The celebrity world is full of avid sports fans who love to root for their favorite teams, from Jack Nicholson, to Spike Lee, to Mark Wahlberg. A small subset of celebrities even dream about owning their own franchises. Yet with most American sports teams valued in the billions of dollars, achieving that goal can prove difficult for even the hugest mega-stars. One celebrity who has accomplished that dream is Justin Timberlake, an owner of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team.
It’s a tough time to be in the agency business as of late, with pay cuts, furloughs and layoffs all implemented so the industry can stay afloat amid the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Even with those tough blows, WME has found a way to forge ahead with seminars and trainee talks under the “WME U” banner, as in WME University. The program, designed to keep employees informed, inspired and connected, has pivoted to virtual events that…
Hong Kong-based virtual reality startup Sandbox VR has closed an $11 million funding round, bringing the company’s reported total to $83 million in 2019 following a Series A round earlier this year. Led by Craft Ventures’ David Sacks and Andreessen Horowitz Cultural Leadership Fund, the funding round includes Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Will Smith and Orlando Bloom among a celebrity-packed group of new investors. Also on the list are Hollywood super-agent and CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz; Japanese soccer star Honda Keisuke; Kevin Durant and his manager, Rich…
Hell’s Kitchen barbecue spot Southern Hospitality, best known for once being affiliated with Justin Timberlake, is now closed. The restaurant at 645 Ninth Avenue, near 45th Street, recently stopped opening its doors even though tables are seemingly set up for service inside. Southern Hospitality has yet to announce the shutter, though a spokesperson confirms it and tells Eater that the space will transition into a new concept in the fall. Owner Eytan Sugarman originally opened the Memphis-style barbecue spot on the Upper East Side…
If you thought the members-club model had already reached critical mass (we certainly did), you might be wrong. Of course, there are the Soho Houses and the Ivy League alumni clubs, the clubs for creatives, the clubs for women, and even the clubs for debauchers (we’re looking at you Playboy Club) but now there’s a club that might just outdo them all. Nexus Club New York quietly opened last month on the seventh floor of 100…
It was a cheque that blew the lid on the duplicitous dealings of one of pop’s most controversial music managers. Having already turned Backstreet Boys into a 1990s boyband juggernaut, Lou Pearlman had become the mastermind behind ‘NSync, designed as rivals to his other band. After three years of nonstop work and tens of millions of record sales, in December 1998, he invited the five singers and their families to an expensive restaurant to officiate…
Justin Timberlake has scored a big win in the lawsuit accusing him of deceiving customers who bought the beverages he hawks after a judge dropped him from the case. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, a federal court judge has dismissed all claims against Timberlake in the class action lawsuit filed over the ingredients in Bai Brands Beverages, which Justin Timberlake has endorsed. The judge ordered that the claims against Timberlake were filed in…
A Memphis home with a link to Justin Timberlake has sold. The 4,300-square-foot home on Mud Island served as a business address for Timberlake’s Tennman Entertainment. The house, which sold for $890,000, was built in 1995 and has three bedrooms and three-and-half baths. Valley View Revocable Trust, which is connected to Timberlake’s family, bought the house in 2006 for $1.1 million, according to records. Real estate news concerning Timberlake isn’t confined to Memphis. The…
Justin Timberlake has been secretly signing copies of his autobiography. The ‘Cry Me A River’ hitmaker released his memoir ‘Hindsight: And All The Things I Can’t See In Front Of Me’ at the end of last month, and since then, he’s been dropping into book stores at random and taking copies off the shelves to mark them with his signature. On Wednesday, he took to Instagram and posted a third video of him sneaking into…
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have suffered a loss on their lavish New York penthouse after being forced to drop the price four times since listing the home in March this year. The 37-year-old Grammy Award winning singer and his Hollywood heavyweight wife, 36, have now sold the three bedroom Soho Mews apartment for $6.35 million, yet purchased the pad for $6,567,713 in 2010. The couple’s $200,000 loss will no doubt come as a blow…