[Mz K]

Would explain why shes' wearing those kind of clothes and it's no surprises many artists has made million to get screwed up after or spend too much money...Tlc...etc. I did wonder why she never invested in getting a proper home either in barbados or even up here at least if she stops singing she'll have a roof...a car you know? but those youngings *humph*

but why do you NEED to put people's business for?

Rihanna's now ex-business manager Patricia Willliams has been recently fired as she recalls "for no good reason, all in ignorance" and is "livid" with Rihanna & her management company Rebel One's decision to axe her.Patricia Williams, who was recently released from her duties as Rihanna's accountant, tell all to New York's Page Six revealing that the singer is broke, check out the report: Rihanna's now ex-business manager

“I’m a professional Business Manager, I have a staff of more than a dozen, I have worked for many high profile actors, musicians and multi-million dollar corporations. Why would I steal from Rihanna? I showed her all the paperwork and tried to explain to her the circumstances but she wouldn’t listen. She called me all sorts of horrible names and stormed off. I now feel compelled to share with the world the background story as I will not allow my name to be slandered”

The Barbados born singer has had four back-to-back albums, including a re-release since her debut of “Pon De Replay” in 2005. According to Willliams, Marc Jordan, manager and owner of Rebel One Management has been taking care of Rihanna’s financial situation with her.

“Def Jam doesn’t fund Rihanna properly, so Marc uses the money Rihanna makes from third-party endorsements and from tours to fund her album and music videos.”

“Since 2005, Rihanna has been sponsored by the likes of JC Penny, Samsung, CoverGirl, Secret, Venus Breeze etc, and has gone on two major tours, most recently label-mate Kanye West’s “Glow in the Dark” Tour and with ***** Cat Dolls across Europe. I don’t want to disrespect Marc’s name. He is a fantastic manager and genuinely believes in Rihanna. But he uses her money to fund her future projects because he believes he can break her in the world-market. Her album sales are not nearly as close to her single sales and he knows that if she is only known as a ‘singles artist’ she will only be as good as her last hit. Unfortunately, he didn’t inform his client and I’m receiving the brunt of it.”

“Her record label Def Jam has put out 3 albums in a time span of 2 years. A lot of that was orchestrated through her management Rebel One. It was never Def Jam’s intention to release so many albums back-to-back but Marc Jordan found loop holes and ways to make it happen. A lot of the money Rihanna made was through her endorsements between CoverGirl cosmetics, Samsung.. Notice that majority of Rihanna’s videos have a cell phone in it?”

“After the release of Rihanna and Teairra Mari, Def Jam had the intention to drop both acts because their album sales were not successful. Her manager fought to get “S.O.S (Rescue Me)” and quickly tried to negotiate with as many companies as possible. Nike picked up the song and funded a video.”

“This brought the hype back for Rihanna in the company’s New York office. The majority of the official ‘S.O.S’ video was funded by Samsung because the record label was only willing to put up a small amount. Once ‘S.O.S’ picked up digitally and at radio, Def Jam agreed to fund the rest of her album. Jordan instantly got a video shot to ‘Unfaithful’ (he negotiated with video director Anthony Mandler to drop his price and would be given more videos from Rihanna in return).”

“Then they shot ‘We Ride’ which was an extremely cheap video to create. ‘Break It Off’ was released as a third album, but again, Def Jam was unhappy with the sales of her album A Girl Like Me and refused to shoot a video.”

“At this point Rihanna was opening up for the ***** Cat Doll’s in Europe. She was making 30,000 a show but she didn’t see any of that money because it was needed to fund her next album.” Which is now known to the greater public as a Good Girl Gone Bad.”

“The song “Umbrella” was found & Jordan fought again for Rihanna to have it. They shot the video, which CoverGirl funded half of, and the song became a success. When the record label had their meeting with Music Stores across the U.S to order her album for shipment, the number’s weren’t coming in the way that they expected.”

“When the album’s first week numbers came in at less than 150,000, the label was shocked. Def Jam’s President LA Reid was livid! “Umbrella” was #1 for 11 weeks! Any other artist would have sold way more first week. T-Pain even did better in sales than her that week. Def Jam told Jordan they were no longer funding the album, so Jordan needed money again to pay for music videos ‘Shut Up & Drive’ and ‘Dont Stop The Music’. Almost 250,000 was spent to have those videos created. Plus, an additional 120,000 to shoot ‘Hate That I Love You’.”

“Jordan was noticing that ‘Dont Stop The Music’ was picking up, so he persuaded the label to support it at radio in the U.S and the remaining singles, and they did. Then came for the repackaging of her album Good Girl Gone Bad, which is called Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, that entire project was funded through Rihanna’s money.

“‘Take A Bow’ was bought through her money, the video was created with her money and so is her most recent video and single ‘Disturbia’. The label didn’t even want to pay a dime for anything! Close to 750,000 was spent on those two songs alone. And now she expects to see money in her account?”

[trinicool]

What about me ... I am broke for a long time now and i never get media attention so why i must care about she...... lolzzzz

[Beefalicious]

the clothes is prolly her style! n i dunno but watever she lost she'll get it back!

[Baby nei nei]

lololol omg lolololololol

when dem tink them shit mek patty!

[Jamaicangal1]

there is some truth to this...or so I would think.

If she really is the one puttin in all the money for the videos and stuff, and then not making back more than what she spent in the first place then of course she's going to be in trouble.

But then again they would be dumb for puttin out 3 or 4 albims back to back. They need to make the audience miss her a little....that way when she does re appear, they actually want to listen. instead of sayin.."mi tyaad ah dah gal deh now"

but hey thats her business if she wants to go broke....

[Mz K]

I agree with you cause I'm tied of seeing her
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[BlueSerenity]

this is certainly a very detailed account of her career through a financial lens....if you living paycheck to paycheck it wont matter how much money u making you will always end up broke...for some there is not other option but for others it is by choice...living outside of your means....at some point she has to sit back and decide what is necessary and what is just unnecessary...and move on from there..

[Mr. Marcus ™]

im getting tired of all this Gossip shiit ...

she is just a kid ... if she wants to spend her money on clothes like all kids do ... who cares

Everyone seems to be just interested in selling gossip to make a profit


Everywhere you turn its some big 'ol fat, sloppy looking 40 year old person talking smack about little kids like Rhianna or C Brown ... they are only 20-19 respectivly ... just kids ... damn media needs to stop trying to destroy these kids lives for their own entertainment and profit


Its really getting annoying to me ... almost to the point where im about to just stop coming online and just start going out more

this shyt is just getting annoying now ... never been a fan of romors and gossip ... never watched soap operas ... not my thing ... so imma have to make some moves

.... my rant of the day ... maybe one of my last


..... shizzle

[BlueSerenity]

..i hear u but u do realize that this is an old thread right...before all the fight gossip thing...lol.....but rant away luv...the rants are the more entertaining reads lately...

[MrCee]

Crooked makes a good point tho....Reminds me of a Oprah interview with the Olsen twins. She asked them about a regular morning and one of them mentions she likes toast without butter, a lil juice and some other nonsense....I'm like okaaaaay...did I need to know that? I had to turn the channel.....lol

These celebs are people just like you & me who eat,sleep & $hit plus they also are faced with life's problems. Should we really care if she's goin broke or who's dating who? Is Jessica Simpson pregnant? Who cares!











I feel better........I wonder what Rihanna's doing right now in Barbados?