Who is Rich Paul? All you need to know about Adele’s husband

For months, Adele and Rich Paul have been sharing clues about their relationship with the general public.

From the singer telling followers that she’s married throughout her Las Vegas residency, to sports activities agent Paul dodging direct questions about their marital standing in interviews, the couple have been complimentary, if often reserved, about each other when talking to the world.

Nevertheless, the newest replace got here from the “Simple on Me” vocalist piping up throughout a comedy set of her shut good friend Alan Carr in Los Angeles. In accordance to others within the viewers, when Carr requested whether or not anybody current had married just lately, Adele shouted out: “I did!”

Although Paul has been extra coy with giving particulars about his relationship with the Grammy and Oscar-winning recording artist, many are actually contemplating the pair formally a married couple.

Rich, in his personal proper

Regardless of Adele, 35, being extra of a world family identify, Paul, 41, is a major participant in US sports activities and tradition in his personal proper – and it began with a jersey.

Born on 16 December 1981, Rich Paul grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from highschool, Paul, a sports activities and vogue fan, started a enterprise promoting classic sports activities jerseys out of his trunk.

Just a few years later, in 2002, Paul met fellow Ohioan LeBron James in an opportunity encounter on the Ackron-Canton Airport, the place the longer term basketball star was drawn in by Paul’s classic jersey of Warren Moon, an American soccer participant.

This interplay was essential in Paul’s future – they exchanged contact, Paul bought James two jerseys, and so they grew to become agency pals. Paul recalled the second in an interview with ESPN in 2012, saying how inconsequential their assembly would have been had he not been sporting the sports activities regalia: “If I don’t have on that jersey, we don’t have a dialog.”

After Paul joined the NBA star’s internal circle, he then started working underneath the sports activities government Leon Rose at main company CAA in 2006.

Six years later in 2012, Paul left Rose and CAA to set up his personal company, Klutch Sports activities Group, and took the extremely profitable James with him.

Rapidly, Paul grew to become identified throughout the sports activities trade as a drive as an agent, brokering high-value offers for athletes. Simply final yr, Forbes named Paul fourth on its record of strongest sports activities brokers, along with his group’s contracts totalling no less than $1.4bn (£1.23bn).

Hey

Prior to the beginning of his relationship with Adele in the summertime of 2021, Paul had three kids from a earlier relationship, whereas Adele has a son from her first marriage to charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki.

Although they’d met in passing as early as 2016, they solely correctly related whereas on the dance flooring at a mutual good friend’s occasion. “He was at all times there, I simply didn’t see him,” Adele informed Vogue in October 2021.

Hearsay Has It

A month later, she additionally informed Rolling Stone that her relationship with Paul is probably the most “unimaginable, openhearted and best” one she’s ever been in.

In Could 2022, the “Somebody Like You” singer shared images of herself and Paul outdoors a $58 million (£47.5 million) property in Beverly Hills that beforehand belonged to Sylvester Stallone. With the sports activities government proven dangling a set of keys, this was seen because the announcement of the pair shopping for their first house collectively.

Somebody like… Rich Paul

Since September 2023, Adele has referred to herself as married, or to having a husband, on a number of events. One of the notable cases occurred when a fan at her Caesars Palace present requested the star to marry her.

Adele replied: “You may’t marry me, I’m straight, my love. My husband’s right here tonight, he’s right here.”

But, in October, Paul performed coy when he was requested by CBS journalist Gayle King whether or not she ought to now refer to Adele as “Mrs Paul”.

“You may say no matter you need,” he mentioned, earlier than explaining he’s not the “sort of particular person to put [his] private life” out within the open. “It’s not for the media,” he added.