Posh and Becks: the REAL break-up
THEY were forced into angry denials when spurious rumours of a divorce gripped the world last week. But while David and Victoria Beckham’s marriage remains very much intact, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today they are going through a big-money break-up.
After 23 years in charge of Brand Beckham, music mogul Simon Fuller will no longer manage both halves of the family empire.
David has ditched the impresario for a new management team. However, former Spice Girl Posh is very much standing by the man who made her a star. Fuller, 58, famously founded and managed the all-girl band and is still involved in her fashion label. David is now being represented by a management team that includes best friend David Gardner, 41. They have been inseparable since they played for Manchester United’s youth team in the 1990s.
Gardner is engaged to Hollywood star Liv Tyler and is a close friend of supermodel Kate Moss. Fuller’s ‘divorce’ from David marks a seismic shift in how the Beckhams run their business affairs. For many years they have been marketed as a power couple by Fuller, who was also responsible for taking David to the US to play for LA Galaxy in 2007. That was a move that hugely increased the former England star’s fame and earnings.
Fuller, believed to be worth about €500 m, created the Pop Idol franchise, but the latest records reveal profits at his company XIX fell from €12.4m in 2015 to €4.9m in 2016.