Audio By Carbonatix
American billionaire Martha Stewart has become the latest celebrity to join Swansea City as a co-owner.
Stewart has followed close friend Snoop Dogg and AC Milan playmaker Luka Modric in becoming a minority owner of the South Wales football club.
The 84-year-old was in attendance as the Swans beat Wrexham 2-1 last Friday, having been invited to the game as a guest of the club.
The businesswoman built her wealth in the homemaking and lifestyle industry, becoming the USA's first self-made female billionaire.
Swansea's owners have previously made it clear that they want to raise the club's profile in an attempt to generate greater revenue, which will then allow them to invest more money in the team under profit and sustainability rules.
A statement from the club on behalf of the ownership group said:
"We are delighted to confirm Martha, who has built a long and successful career as America's leading homemaking and lifestyle expert, has followed Snoop and Luka Modric in becoming a minority owner of our football club.
"We are very excited to welcome Martha on board, and we know experiencing Friday night's game in-person has only increased her own enthusiasm and anticipation for being part of Swansea City."
Despite the addition of another investor and minority owner, the club said that they would be "likely" to have a quiet January transfer window.
"Given the high turnover of players in our squad over the 2025 summer window, and Vitor's track record of developing and improving young players, we do not expect the January window to be a particularly busy one for Swansea City.
"We will, of course, always be looking for ways to strengthen the squad, and if we believe those opportunities are available and would represent good deals for the club, then we will look to capitalise, but given the size of the squad we have already, it's likely January will be relatively quiet," the statement said.
Stewart joining the Swans follows former Ballon d'Or winner Modric becoming an investor and co-owner at the Championship club in April, with rapper Snoop Dogg following suit a couple of months later.
Latest Stories
-
25 MDAs sign data-sharing pact with Ghana Statistical Service
3 minutes -
Legacy Girls’ College celebrates national recognition of two students at 2025 WASSCE
9 minutes -
Oil price jumps despite deal to release record amount of reserves
18 minutes -
Sahara Group commissions 40,000cbm Asharami Ghana LPG vessel to advance clean energy access in Ghana
26 minutes -
Ghana’s Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire marks 69th independence day with call to ‘build prosperity and restore hope’
27 minutes -
COCOBOD to distribute 27,000 sprayers and 89,000 PPE sets to cocoa farmers
36 minutes -
Ntim Fordjour accuses NDC of ‘double standards’ over presidential travel
42 minutes -
Israel–Iran war shakes global insurance industry; Ghana may face heavy impact – Dr Kingsley Agyemang
44 minutes -
DJ Mensah calls for national support for Rapperholic UK as Sarkodie eyes O2 Arena
47 minutes -
COCOBOD disburses GH¢4.2bn to Licensed Buying Companies to settle cocoa farmers’ arrears
49 minutes -
Rebecca Ekpe launches mentorship programme for young journalists and digital creators
50 minutes -
Home Support: How we can use Ghanaians living in the diaspora to form supporter groups for the 2026 World Cup and save millions
57 minutes -
NPP communicator, Senyo Amekplenu seeks audit service expenditure details under RTI
1 hour -
British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles
1 hour -
The mirage of president’s special initiatives – Mahama’s “Legacy Projects”, or another monuments of waste?
1 hour
