Phoebe Gates Reveals How She Beat Tom Brady in Blackjack: ‘Well, I’m Kind of a Loser’
“I ran into him once recently and he was like, ‘Blackjack.’ I’m like, ‘Yup,’ ” recalled the daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates
“I ran into him once recently and he was like, ‘Blackjack.’ I’m like, ‘Yup,’ ” recalled the daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates
Call Her Daddy; Sam Hodde/Getty Phoebe Gates; Tom Brady:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/Phoebe-Gates-tom-brady-2-050125-7800ad5cb5024fe18f3a13f5dc8ae8f8.jpg "Phoebe Gates on Call Her Daddy; Tom Brady looks on prior to the game at AT&T Stadium on September 15, 2024 in Arlington, Texas.")
- Phoebe Gates shared on the April 30 episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast that she once ended up at a blackjack table with the seven-time Super Bowl champion during a celebrity fundraiser, where she beat him
- Sophia Kianni, her close friend, then referenced a simultaneous embarrassing moment when she tumbled down a spiral staircase at the blackjack event, and was subsequently helped up by Jay-Z
- “I’m gushing blood, losing this game. I have no idea how to play,” Kianni said. “I look over and the whole crowd is around Phoebe. The mastermind beating Tom Brady at blackjack. And everyone's like, ‘Who is that girl?’ ”
Add Phoebe Gates to the short list of people who have defeated NFL legend Tom Brady — although her victory wasn’t in a game of football.
The 22-year-old daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates shared on the April 30 episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast that she once ended up at a blackjack table with the seven-time Super Bowl champion during a celebrity fundraiser, where she beat him.
“Well, I’m kind of a loser. So before the party, I had memorized the stats of how you can win blackjack … the best statistical plays to win because it’s a game of luck. Right?” recalled Phoebe, alongside Sophia Kianni, her close friend who was at the event and the co-host of their podcast, The Burnouts. “And somehow I ended up at a table with Tom Brady and I ended up beating him in blackjack, which Sophia will not stop talking about.”
Kianni, 23, chimed in with, “I talk about it every day,” to which Cooper replied, “You shouldn’t stop talking about that’s actually so cool.”
Kianni then referenced an embarrassing, blood-inducing moment when she tumbled down a spiral staircase at the blackjack event, and was subsequently helped up by 25-time Grammy winner Jay-Z.
“I’m gushing blood, losing this game. I have no idea how to play,” Kianni said. “I look over, and the whole crowd is around Phoebe. The mastermind beating Tom Brady at blackjack. And everyone's like, ‘Who is that girl?’ ”
Phoebe explained, “I told everyone I was an influencer. I’m like, ‘It’s called IMG and I model for them. It was tough DNA and IMG, they had a lot of debate over me, but it’s you know, it’s been a busy career.”
Sometime after besting Brady in blackjack, Phoebe, the co-founder of Phia, a sustainable fashion platform that she and Kianni launched in April, recounted seeing the NFL alum out in public.
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“I ran into him once recently and he was like, ‘Blackjack.’ I’m like, ‘Yup,’ ” she remembered. “He doesn’t know my name. He just knows I was the girl with like the ink written of the different stats on my hand.”
Phoebe, who is dating Paul McCartney’s grandson Arthur Donald, then admitted she’s “nerdy” when asked if she’s “a Beatles person.”
“Oh man, it’s so bad. I’m so bad at music. I mean, my family, like, we’re so nerdy, so I knew nothing about music — like I knew about tech stuff growing up, not music stuff,” Phoebe confessed.
