![]() Kate defended her new boyfriend, tweeting: “As for Jay Electronica, who I manage and have done for a while, he saved my life in many ways and I am eternally grateful to him.” She also claimed the story of her affair was “very one-sided”. In late May last year, though, the society fairytale turned sour when Ben reportedly discovered illicit text messages on music producer Kate’s phone, revealing that she was having an affair with one of her artists, Jay Electronica. Goldsmith, son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith and his third wife Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, and brother to MP Zac and journalist Jemima Khan, married Kate, daughter of the late Amschel Rothschild and Anita Patience Guinness, in 2003 in an irresistible union of the country’s two great banking families. Not that his girlfriend’s ex, Ben Goldsmith, will feel any better for it. The image of a deep-thinking maverick and outsider helps to explain Electronica’s charismatic appeal to the wealthy, bohemian London set with whom he now socialises, many miles from Louisiana. Before he met Kate, Electronica was in another high-profile relationship with singer Erykah Badu, with whom he has a four-year-old daughter Mars. He was born Timothy Elpadaro Thedford in the crime-ridden Magnolia projects in New Orleans, leaving the city when he was 19 to pursue a music career. Describing his experiences “praying with the Monks in India” and “travelling illegally into Mexico”, it claims he is “seeking the answer to the most critical question that has been asked for centuries by Alchemist, Artist, Magi, Sages and Wizards ‘What is truth?’” The short profile about him on his record label’s website - Jay Z’s Roc Nation - could be about a wandering mystic. All to the background sound of global hip hop fans clamouring for his debut album to finally “drop” and anger growing in the rap community that he might be putting his social life with Kate ahead of his music.Įlectronica isn’t your average champagne-glugging, big ring-toting rap star. In a story of incongruous social ascent, the artist who has not yet released a full-length album has become a charismatic fixture on the party scene - dating a Rothschild heiress (whose divorce finally came through two weeks ago), partying with the likes of Cummings, hanging with Gwyneth at Glastonbury and getting close - uncomfortably so for his girlfriend, it is reported - to fashion darling Cara Delevingne. If we’re judging people by the company they keep - and recent mutterings about the coteries of Justin Bieber and David Cameron suggest we are - then Electronica, 36, is becoming rather formidable. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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