>Footballer Achraf Hakimi’s wife filed for divorce and demanded half of his property.
>She was however informed by court that her "Millionaire’ husband owns nothing as all his property is registered under his mother’s names.
>Hakimi receives €1 Million from PSG monthly but 80% of this is deposited in his mother Mrs. Fatima’s account.
>He has no property, cars, houses, jewelry or even clothes in his name.
Anytime, he wants anything, he asks his mother who buys it for him.
I can believe this.
A family friend worked for a major international bank - they did the anti-fraud calls when a card had clearly been skimmed or had been used out of the usual spending pattern. They were assigned to the private banking arm, generally reserved for the rich, famous, or both.
Nine times out of ten, if they called a footballer, they’d end up being put on to their mother who handled the finances.
Smart move, I suppose. If I was a word-class sportsman raking in six figures when I was younger, I absolutely would have pissed it up the wall.
Just look at Michael Jordan. His mother negotiated the everliving crap out of everyone who wanted to be associated with him, and now the dude’s still raking in absolutely obscene amounts of money every year without doing absolutely anything at all.
Makes sense. It allows him to focus on his career, while she focuses on everything around him as her full time job.
Although I think this greentext’s equivalent wouldn’t be possible to the same effect in the USA because MJ doesn’t qualify as a dependent so the money that he officially made going to his mother would trigger the Gift Tax essentially taxing his income multiple times.
By all rights, she should get to ask his mom to buy her stuff too, and mama Hakimi can only say no half the time.
Ask twice every time lmao
Smart man. People with real wealth never handle it directly.
No. It’s just fake, this isn’t how these things work. You need to be very naive to think just moving money one step is how you avoid these things. It’s not.
How would you do that without paying up the nose in taxes? Does he work for his mom’s company who gets a recruitment fee from the club?
You don’t have to pay tax on gifts in some countries (UK for example), no idea where this guy or his mother live though.
UK has a gift tax. Only up to £3000 per annum is tax free
That’s sort of true, it’s a 3k allowance per year relating to inheritance tax. So if you give someone 6k and die 2 years later, no tax. You give them 9k and 3k is taxable.
After 7 years it all becomes exempt.
It’s basically to stop people bypassing inheritance tax by giving it all away.
So if you give it all away 7 years before you die then you don’t pay tax on it?
That’s my understanding 🤷
no clothes in his name
uh? what does that mean? maybe that’s an ultrarich thing when your clothes are actually worth some amount? do people actually have some way of legal ownership of clothes other than ‘yeah I paid for them, no I don’t have any receipts but they are inside my house and nobody will claim otherwise therefore they are mine’?
It’s an expression used to mean someone is so broke, they figuratively don’t even have clothes to put on, I believe - which this footballer isn’t, but compared to his real wealth, his official wealth is pennies.
In America, this wouldn’t save him. His wages would be garnished before they hit mommy’s bank account.
At least, in the many states with protections against deadbeat dads. There are still a few where ex-spouses have no protection.
The story was even better than this. In the interest of fairness, he was entitled to half of her stuff, which wasn’t a small amount given that she was a famous model.
Divorce rates for footballers are very high, especially in the first year after retirement, which is something stupid like 50-60%. There are also some crazy stories where wives let their husbands cheat and fuck around all day because they know that the second he retires they’ll get paid.
