£95m Hollywood star and Oscar winner confirms Leeds United investment
After buying out Andrea Radrizzani last summer, the American consortium 49ers Enterprises, which had owned a minority position in Leeds since 2018, assumed complete control of the football club. A large number of smaller investors contributed to the club as part of the agreement, and well-known personalities emerged with new connections to Elland Road.
Following the release of a video featuring Crowe confirming his summer engagement at Leeds’ official X account in Hyde Park’s Brudenell Social Club, an account on the platform implied that the well-known actor owned shares in League Two team Wrexham.
“I don’t have any part of what’s going on in Wrexham man,” said Crowe. Although I’m not involved in it, I’m incredibly impressed with Ryan and Rob and what they are accomplishing. But thanks to the 49ers family, I do currently have a very tenuous financial tie to LUFC. Yes, precisely, but in the other direction.
With Crowe being one of the most well-known and wealthy Whites supporters globally, having a net worth of around £95 million, the news naturally sparked excitement among Leeds fans on social media. The star, who was born in New Zealand, has acknowledged that he has watched Leeds since he was a small child, watching Match of the Day after returning from sports.
Being born in 1964, he will have missed out on some of the club’s most prosperous years under Don Revie, as well as the opportunity to watch Leeds win the First Division in 1991–1992, under Howard Wilkinson. Back in 2015, when the team was owned by the infamous Massimo Cellino, he hinted at the prospect of a possible sale.
Cellino eventually gave Radrizzani control of the club after refusing to sell it at that point, and nine years later, Crowe has ties to the team of his youth.