Billionaire Heir's Lowball Offer Sparks Online Roast

0:00It's April 9th. Entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now. AI-powered and trending. Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe Gates is catching heat online for allegedly trying to hackle down an influencer on a collab deal. She's the co-founder of FIA, an AI tool that hunts for deals on secondhand fashion, and she reached out to Casey Marges, a model from Orange County, who lists her rates at $250 per gig on a booking site called Collapster. Earlier this week, Marges spilled the tea on threads, sharing a screenshot of Phoebe's Instagram message from April. In it, Phoebe gushed about the content, but played of FIA as a scrappy start-up with a super-limited budget, asking for rates anyway instead of just. Booking through the site. Folks are ripping into Phoebe because FIA is valued at $180 million, and her dad's net worth sits at $103 billion. Calling as scrappy just doesn't add up to a lot of people, sparking debates about privilege and fair pay in influencer world. Marges pointed out how brands usually book straight from Collapster without the

1:03private negotiate game, and she's not budging on her posted price. The backlash has the internet buzzing with fans siding hard against the low-ball attempt. This one's got everyone talking about how even billionaire airs negotiate like startups on a shoestring. Stay tuned as the online roast keeps rolling.