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Jay-Z Closes $350M Tidal Sale With Square CEO Jack Dorsey
JAY-Z AND JACK DORSEY
Willow Smith, 20, Reveals She's Polyamorous On Red Table Talk
JAY-Z has reportedly added even more wealth to his net worth.
On Friday (April 30), Hov’s drawn out deal to sell the dig- ital streaming platform TIDAL to Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was completed, according to TMZ.
Dorsey had announced his plans to buy a majority stake in the popular streaming plat- form in March and after Fri- day’s deal, he officially fulfilled his wish. As for Hov, the sale adds another $350 million to his bank account,
flipping an investment he made in 2015 when he pur- chased the then-fledging plat- form for $56 million.
“Jack is one of the greatest minds of our times, and our many discussions about TIDAL’s endless possibilities have made me even more in- spired about its future,” JAY- Z tweeted on March 4. “This shared vision makes me even more excited to join the Square board. This partner- ship will be a game-changer for many. I look forward to all this new chapter has to offer!”
lationship style that works for you and not just stepping into monogamy because that's what everyone around you says is the right thing to do.'
'So I was like, how can I structure the way that I ap-
proach relationships with that in mind? Also, doing re- search into polyamory, the main reasons why monoga- mous relationships - or why marriage - why divorces hap- pen is infidelity.'
Willow Smith has come out as polyamorous.
The 20-year-old daughter of movie stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith revealed the news on Wednesday during a discus- sion with her mother and grandmother, but noted that she can't see herself 'going past two partners.'
Willow, who appears to be in a monogamous relation- ship with her boyfriend, Tyler Cole, made the revela- tion on her mother's Face- book show Red Table Talk.
She explained: 'With polyamory, I feel like the main foundation is the free- dom to be able to create a re-
RED TABLE TALK WITH JADA PINKETT-SMITH, WILLOW SMITH AND ADRIENNE BANFIELD-NORRIS.
‘Friday’ Actor Tommy ‘Tiny’
Lister Died Of Heart Disease,
Autopsy Reveals
An autopsy performed on
Tommy “Tiny” Lister
found that the actor best known for his role as Deebo in the Friday franchise died of hypertensive and athero- sclerotic cardiovascular dis- ease, TMZ reports. The L. A. County Medical Examiner said Lister also tested posi- tive for COVID-19, but con- cluded that heart disease was the cause of death.
Lister’s manager Cindy Cowan said in December that he tested positive four months prior to his death. Cowan recalls him strug- gling to breathe and feeling lethargic. Despite going through many of the com- mon symptoms, Lister was never hospitalized, and
TOMMY ‘TINY’ LISTER
opted to stay home and quarantine. A week before his sudden passing, Cowan said he was expected to come by her home, but decided to stay away because he was fearful that he contracted the virus again.
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