Was thinking the same.. unless her parents bailed her out which is very likely too
If that was the case and her parents were helping - I'd rather have a loan of a deposit for a house so I could get a mortgage, than I would have a loan to buy a business that's not guaranteed forever and can fluctuate by the month.
I'd say the business buy-out is a legal guarantee of a set amount paid off by the month from the XGALZ Patreon earnings.
I also found it so odd that in her statement Lindsay said Jenny 'gave me a wildly inflated valuation of the business which she knew was completely out of my reach financially'
The business evaluation would have nothing to do with what Lindsay could afford, as it's a business evaluation. It's not based on what you can afford, it's based on how much it's worth on paper?
If they were pulling in 12k a month so 144k a year on Patreon, plus lets say 20k in merch and 50k Acast sponsorships and 50k a year in live shows, that's at least 264k plus ( and I'm literally moderately guesstimating here) Of course to buy your way out of a business valued at that much you'll have to pay a lot. It has nothing to do with what you can afford? That's not how businesses work. If the shoe was on the other foot L would want to get her half of what the business was worth too, it wouldn't be based on what Jenny could afford. Businesses aren't charities. They're businesses.