Claudia Schiffer: New partner of Premier League club

The former supermodel Claudia Schiffer (54) takes the leap into the world of professional football. Together with her husband, the British filmmaker Sir Matthew Vaughn (54), Schiffer got on at the English Premier League club FC Brentford. The investment was made by the joint production company Marv and makes the couple a new minority share of the London association.

“I am very happy to be partly part of a football club now-and to experience all the special moments and the fascination of this sport up close,” wrote the 54-year-old to a photo that she shows in a t-shirt with the club coat of arms of the “Bees”.

The association, which was placed in tenth place in the tenth place in the Premier League in the past season, rated around £ 400 million (approx. 460 million euros). Together with the British businessman Gary Lubner, skipper and Vaughn are now strengthening the owners’ structure of the association, who has made the promotion from the third division to the Premier League since 2012 under the leadership of majority owner Matthew Benham. How many percent of the shipper and Co. acquired and at what price is not yet known.

Vaughn, known as the director and producer of films such as the “Kingsman” series, “X-Men: first decision” and finally the action comedy “Argylle”, regretted not investing earlier. “My journey with Brentford started 25 years ago when an actor told me that it was a” great club to invest “, he revealed. When he finally attended a game years later, it was “the most unique, intimate, yet most epic match” that he had ever experienced.

For Claudia Schiffer, who has been married to Vaughn since 2002 and has three children together, the investment means another step away from the model business. The native of the Rhineland, who was one of the best paid models in the world in the 1990s, worked for brands such as Chanel and Versace and was considered the largest muse from Karl Lagerfeld, had largely withdrawn from the public in recent years.

Brentford’s managing director Jon Varney was enthusiastic about the prominent newcomers in his statement: “It is crucial for us that new investors understand and reflect the values of our club.”