Jay-Z has no qualms about spending epic proportions on a night out — and here the rest of us are worried about accidentally leaving our tabs open. According to Page Six, the rapper racked up a $91,135 bar tab in 2018 at a nightclub called Playroom after reportedly ordering 40 bottles of Armand de Brignac champagne. For Jay, this very well could be a tax write-off. The music mogul has a hand in the business of alcohol and nightlife.
Jay has long-owned the 40/40 club, a celebrity-favored haunt in New York that reportedly brings in annual profits of $10 million. According to Forbes, the club's "central feature" is a $1 million champagne tower comprised of golden Armand de Brignac bottles. Jay also owns the champagne brand, colloquially referred to as Ace of Spades, which has bottles that retail for as much as $850 a pop. Though Armand de Brignac keeps their sales figures under wraps, they reportedly make 100,000 bottles a year.
If you didn't know from the sheer amount of times Jay-Z and his friends rapped about d'Usse in recent years, Hov also own the Bacardi cognac brand (via Billboard) which launched in 2012. Though it's unclear how much the music mogul makes from the deal, cognac sales are reportedly surging in the U.S., and Bacardi made 86,000 cases in 2016 alone. This was a 48 percent increase from the previous year.
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