14 DAY TRIAL // Late last week, word got out that rapper Soulja Boy was living life in style (and well beyond his means), by buying himself the perfect birthday present: a $35 million private jet in which he invested another $20 million in customization. That was a lie, his rep is now saying.
Soulja Boy turns 21 this week and, according to TMZ, to celebrate it, he’d splurged $55 million on a present for himself.
What’s more, Soulja himself and his management confirmed the rumors for the same media outlet: indeed, he’d bought himself an expensive plane.
Now, the rapper’s new publicist is doing a 180, saying that the story was just an “elaborate lie” that the media came up with, TMZ informs.
“Soulja’s ‘spokesperson’ Greg Miller has issued a statement on behalf of the rapper, saying the ‘elaborate rumors’ are ‘not true’,” TMZ writes.
This comes to contradict everything else that has been written about the ridiculously expensive birthday present, most of which came from the rapper himself.
“Funny, because when our reporter spoke with Soulja earlier this week – and asked him directly, he responded, ‘Hell yeah... I bought it’,” TMZ notes.
“Earlier this week, TMZ spoke with Soulja, a member of his management team named Shai Storm and Soulja’s assistant – who all verified Soulja dropped the cash on the private jet as a 21st birthday gift to himself,” the e-zine further says.
“In fact, Soulja even went on a radio show yesterday in Miami – after TMZ’s story posted – and when asked if he bought the plane, coyly told the DJ he was ‘G5 status’... but never said the story was false,” TMZ adds.
One theory about the above that is now being circulated in the blogosphere is that Soulja Boy did buy the plane but that there was something fishy about the transaction, so he’s now lying about it.
As we also noted the other day, the rapper’s estimated worth is between $6 million and $23 million – definitely well under the reported cost of the jet, $55 million.