Bruno Mars pokes fun at $50,000,000 gambling debt rumour
Bruno Mars pokes fun at $50,000,000 gambling debt rumour
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Bruno Mars shocked fans with his return to music last week and now he’s taken a step further and joked about his supposed $50,000,000 debt. The 39-year-old singer dropped his racy track Fat, Juicy and Wet featuring Sexyy Red, 26, last week in a wild departure from his Grenade era.
With reactions to the song going viral on TikTok, it wasn’t long before Bruno jumped into the charts with over 10million streams on Spotify. Thanks to this success, he is now the first-ever performer to hit a monthly total of over 150million listeners on the platform.
In celebration, Bruno posted a cheeky message on his social media which included a plea for fans to ‘keep streaming’ his music. ‘I’ll be out of debt in no time,’ the Grammy winner added, in a nod to rumours that he is in $50,000,000 (£40,222,000) of debt.
In March 2024, a source claimed to News Nation that Bruno was in debt to MGM Resorts International after gambling. The insider told the outlet that MGM ‘basically own him’ and he ‘makes $90million a year off of the deal he did with the casino, but then he has to pay back his debt… after taxes.’.
Bruno has been involved in a long-running residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM, Las Vegas, which started in 2016. Fans began to speculate his continued performances at the venue were connected to this alleged gambling debt as he could not leave. This was spurred on by the fact that Bruno has not embarked on a US or world tour since 2018, although there is no evidence of this being the case.