Jeffree Star boyfriend: Jeffree Star Claps Back at Claims He's Paying His New Boyfriend to Date Him
Let the record show that Jeffree Star is not paying his boyfriend to date him.
The YouTuber made things Instagram official with a mystery man on Monday, which landed his name on Twitter's trending page within minutes. Many of the tweets were focused on his past controversies, but some of them questioned whether Jeffree's new boo is benefitting financially from this arrangement.
Jeffree Star may have a new boyfriend. The beauty YouTuber and cosmetics CEO first posted a steamy anonymous photo of himself sitting on the lap of a new man over the weekend, captioning it "Thankful for all the blessings God has brought into my life this year."
However, as the Jeffree Star Cosmetics owner claimed on Twitter, that is not the case. "I know it's devastating news for some people, but I don't give money to anyone I'm dating or anyone who is f--king me. Work on your own insecurities sis, I'm not the problem," the star tweeted.
The man may have been faceless in the picture, but his arm tattoos were visible, and that's apparently all it took for sleuths to figure out it was basketball player André Marhold, who is currently playing for a team in Germany and has matching ink.
He continued in another tweet, "Worry about how to pay your own bills, not who's in my mouth. Thank you, God bless - Upper management."
Jeffree also shared numerous photos of him and his boo at his mansion on Instagram Stories, but has yet to personally share his boyfriend's name.
The Shade Room was first to identify Jeffree's mystery man as a basketball player who previously played at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Penn. After graduating from college, the athlete traveled overseas to join teams in Germany and Austria.
His Instagram, which is now private, shows that he's currently living in Atlanta, GA.
The YouTuber's new relationship announcement comes less than a year after he and longtime boyfriend Nathan Schwandt went their separate ways.
In a YouTube video confirming their split Jeffree explained that they were breaking up because they wanted to go into 2020 "focusing on our own selves."
Popular Instagram gossip page The Shade Room first debuted Star's lover's identity, and critics angrily suggested that they may have outed Marhold's sexuality.
But Star seemed to appreciate the confirmation, because he began posting pictures of Marhold's face on his Instagram story hours later.
"It's 2020," Star said. "We're gonna start things off fresh. I'm starting this year off alone and I can't even believe I'm saying that. I'm so devastated but I'm strong and you guys know that me and Nate had been through so much together. And there's no crazy gossip, there's no tea, this is actually really important and I don't think that enough celebrities, influencers, people with a platform, talk about, and that's mental health."
Earlier this year, Jeffree came under fire for using racial slurs in past social media posts and for his involvement in a feud between Tati Westbrook and James Charles.
"Jeffree Star" trended on Twitter throughout the day as people reacted to Star cozying up with the basketball player. Plenty of people commented on the fact that they thought Star was paying Marhold to pretend to be his boyfriend, which the YouTuber snarkily responded to.
In fact, the self-identified ex-girlfriend of Marhold commented on the pictures. There's no confirmation that this is actually Marhold's ex-girlfriend, but the post went viral on Twitter.
Others commented on the fact that Star has a lengthy history of racist incidents, such as aggressively directing the "n-word" and other racial slurs at random passerby for online content — he addressed the old, racist clips in a 2017 video — and just recently Star disappeared from the internet after being accused of manipulating the 2019 feud between James Charles and Tati Westbrook, only to resurface posing with a Black man.
He later apologized for both controversies, but the makeup brand Morphe cut ties with the star.
