Where did the idea that Eve married a billionaire come from?

[luckyse7enz]

So I was scrolling through IG and I happened upon a recent pic of Eve...



...and I rocked with Eve and her music back in the day. Decided to see the praise she was getting in the comments. Everyone praising her high fashion and echoes of her "looking like wealth", a lot of comments affirming that this is the energy you give when you're minding your own business since she's married to a billionaire.

Then, I came across a comment that said something along the lines of, "He's not a billionaire" and digging deeper into the discussion, it turns out that she was never married to a billionaire.

Someone posted an interview that she did with Parade:

https://parade.com/1280876/kaigreen/eve-husband-maximillion-cooper/

What is Eve’s husband’s net worth?​

Eve doesn’t really need her husband’s money; she’s got a net worth of about $10 million from her own career. However, when news broke that she was dating Cooper, people wondered if she was in it for the money, as he was rumored to be a billionaire. Eve shut that down quickly. “He’s not a billionaire. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet,” she said at the time. That doesn’t mean he’s broke; Cooper’s net worth is estimated to be about $60 million.

I text my girl about it and she was like, "Whaaat? ...but it was in the news."

I feel like I've been hearing this for over a decade from many people, even when I search "Eve billionaire" in the Coli thread search, people mention that she "secured the billionaire bag", but it seems that the guy isn't even close.

That's as much money as half a Dejounte Murray, less than LeBron James after his high school graduation before ever stepping foot on an NBA court.

Where did this rumor start and why do so many people run with it as fact?

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

He's worth significantly less than your elite professional Black Athlete but they wouldn't be cheering her on the same way in a union like that unless a brother was corny like Russell Wilson

 

[Morethan1]

So on a beautiful Saturday afternoon you thinking about Eve and her husband's networth?

Yall boys weird as fukk

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

People are stupid like that

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

man...

 

[re'up]

Social media plus the post 2010 marketing as everyone as a billionaire

see: Kanye, Kylie Jenner, Dr Dre, Jay and Beyonce

it's not that they are lying, exactly, it's just become another part of the mythology, Kanye for sure and Forbes were reaching for that.

It's also very hard to discern the wealth of these people, because these deals are complicated and convoluted. With someone like Bezos or Musk, they are simply using an equation of the current stock price, plus how much he holds. But, that's almost like just on paper. Esp. Kanye, read that new article, and see how layered his deal with Addidas was.

 

[re'up]

if you look at stories like this, they usually confirm deeply held cultural beliefs/and or fears, they are like fairy tales and urban legends, they always reflect society back to itself.

The idea here would be that

1) women marry for money

2) women need a lot of money to be married

3) black women will marry white men, with money esp. ones in the industry

 

[Creflo ½ Dollar]

So on a beautiful Saturday afternoon you thinking about Eve and her husband's networth?

Yall boys weird as fukk

I'm saying. I'm out here about to set up a rendezvous to get my dikk sucked and these fool ass nxggas thinking about Eve and her cacs net worth

It’s funny y’all be so unbothered but bothered enough to comment, yall nikkas literally read the headlines, came in to comment your disinterest in the topic to seem “cool” ..Y’all the weird ones to be fair.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Social media plus the post 2010 marketing as everyone as a billionaire

see: Kanye, Kylie Jenner, Dr Dre, Jay and Beyonce

it's not that they are lying, exactly, it's just become another part of the mythology, Kanye for sure and Forbes were reaching for that.

It's also very hard to discern the wealth of these people, because these deals are complicated and convoluted. With someone like Bezos or Musk, they are simply using an equation of the current stock price, plus how much he holds. But, that's almost like just on paper. Esp. Kanye, read that new article, and see how layered his deal with Addidas was.

No those people are (or were) billionaires.

This cac isnt.

 

[Wargames]

We was told he was a billionaire though maybe that rumor got mixed up with Janet Jackson’s husbands net worth. I think Salam Hayek and Serena Williams was rumored to have married billionaires. I never cared to confirm, but in hindsight these celebrity rumors don’t make sense if you think about it….. there aren’t that many billionaires out there who aren’t old as fukk and trying to keep that money white….

 

[null]

So on a beautiful Saturday afternoon you thinking about Eve and her husband's networth?

Yall boys weird as fukk

open reg time

 

[Elim Garak]

I think people confuse her husband's networth and Serena's husband.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

It’s funny y’all be so unbothered but bothered enough to comment, yall nikkas literally read the headlines, came in to comment your disinterest in the topic to seem “cool” ..Y’all the weird ones to be fair.

Nxgga this the coli, I ain't gotta be bothered to get these jokes off. I'm sitting on the toilet, I'm just passing the time making posts till I get done doing my business. You the one that's aggy

 

[Sbp]

The narrative was created to overemphasize the notion that she "Glowed Up" by dating out.

 

[Morethan1]

open reg time

I sent @Brooklynzson 3 months ago and he never replied.