>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.

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    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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        Makes sense. It allows him to focus on his career, while she focuses on everything around him as her full time job.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not their wealth.

      I’d be very interested to see the legal construct they created that allows him to just gift tons of money to his mother for no return.

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        10 months ago

        Looks like it’s probably fake, the only source of this claim is some tweet from a random account. I couldn’t find anything relevant after last spring, but I suppose the divorce is still not judged. At the time she claimed she was confident she would get her fair share.

        In France, doing this at this scale without paying any taxes would probably be very illegal.

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        Probably some kind of trust fund he contributes to but his mom is the owner of said trust fund. He will get access of it after his mom dies. People usually start those to avoid inheritance taxes.

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              For one thing, the very idea of marriage means it was already her money too. It’s supposed to be an equal partnership in all things, including income and household management, not a temporary condition where they promise not fuck someone else and nothing else changes.

              For another, this is fake and stupid, if a court caught him doing this they’d take more than half as a punitive measure.

              You want to really get fucked in a divorce, try to hide your wealth like this and see what happens.

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                As said up there this is a random tweet and we waiting for a court document

                ACHKTUALLY there is some way in France to avoid this - the club can be the one giving money to his mom company -

                Speaking about mariage rules there is laws that separate works income and usufruit of your company property (house - cars - fashion clothes that are advertising for the brands… )

                It was laws made to protect a married person from inhertance of the debts from a company

                Now it is another tax evasion scam

                We have a word in french for fruits you can use while not owning them and it is beautifull (the word not the scam)

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                Depends on how rich you are. If you have fuck you money then laws start applying to you less and less. Considering what sort of people acquire that much money, it wouldn’t surprise me if they were also willing and able to screw their former spouse over in new and creative ways.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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    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?

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      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.

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        PSG is Paris soccer (not only) club

        We have some taxes on gifts in France so I bet it is some kind of individual company and it is the club that give the money to her

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          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.

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    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’?

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      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.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    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.

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    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.