I think when you make money in the way she does, there’s a difference between having a thriving career and earning money.
Compared to when she was at the height of her popularity she doesn’t have much now in terms of partnerships, appearances on This Morning etc.
I think what her management is good at is negotiating longer term deals with some payments up front and the rest over a period of time. So in terms of P&G it doesn’t matter if the scents sell or not. She has her cut before it even hits production. They have to release them though in line with a contract. Same with the “books”. I reckon way back when they negotiated a contract where she had to put her name to a certain amount of books (hence the blank notebook
).
All speculation of course I’m just gossiping on a gossip website and this is just my chain of thought. I think time will tell as she’ll be coming to the end of her pre-negotiated deals. P&G are already casting their net wider than they have in a long time in terms of using other people so I wonder if she’ll get as big a cut of the pie next time? Maybe she’s been allocated a more senior member of the YMU team as they’re not making as much money off her as they thought so she needs to be more actively managed