90 Day Fiancé Luke’s sunglasses brand ‘terminated’ as fans urge ‘get a real job’
Luke Berry is an entrepreneur who’s laying his romance bare on 90 Day Fiancé: Love In Paradise season 4. When it comes to love, it seems he and his partner, Madelein Perez, are totally in love, per their social media posts. But, some of Luke’s posts regarding his sunglasses business are kind of confusing considering […]
Luke Berry is an entrepreneur who’s laying his romance bare on 90 Day Fiancé: Love In Paradise season 4. When it comes to love, it seems he and his partner, Madelein Perez, are totally in love, per their social media posts. But, some of Luke’s posts regarding his sunglasses business are kind of confusing considering his business was reportedly shut down.
TLC brings a juicy batch of 90 Day Fiancé: Love In Paradise episodes with season 4 this April. While some relationships are developing rapidly, and marriage proposals are popping off, other couples are struggling to remain in relationships of two as some cast members are keen for a third member to join.
90 Day Fiancé Love in Paradise: Luke and Madelein
There’s a lot to get to grips with when it comes to 90 Day Fiancé’s Love In Paradise spin-off.
This season features Alex and Adriano, Alliya and Shawn, Kyle and Anika, and Luke and Madelein.
While Luke, 30, hails from Los Angeles, his partner, Madelein, 19, is from Colombia.
The two raised eagle-eyed fans’ eyebrows on the show this year due to their age gap. Although they don’t have the biggest age gap of season 4, (we can leave that to Alliya and Shawn), they have 11 years between them.
Some fans also took to Reddit to work out if Luke and Madelein had been together a year and a half, she’d have been 17 when they first met.
Luke’s sunglasses business
Luke and Madelein appear to be a great match and it makes sense they’d both have an entrepreneurial streak.
While Luke runs his own jewelry business, his partner has her own beauty company.
Although Luke is repping his sunglasses brand during 90 Day Fiancé, it turns out the company actually closed down just a couple of months ago.
In late May, In Touch Weekly exclusively confirmed the eyewear brand was “terminated.”
“Luke’s company, Gold Express LLC, was terminated in the state of California on June 14, 2023, according to legal documents exclusively viewed by In Touch. He shut down the business just one month after he launched the company in May 2023.”
However, Luke took to Instagram back in June this year to respond to a commenter who asked: “Do you have women’s?”
He said: “I’m calling these unisex, but model 3/4 should come out in men’s and woman’s. Model 2 in development now!”
Fans say he ‘needs a real job’
It’s fair to say Madelein and Luke hit a bit of a tough spell in their relationship over finances.
Fans turn totally savage on the star on a Reddit thread discussing his business closing down.
One comments: “I think its hilarious that he claims he was so wealthy and he only had like 20k in his 401k.”
While another said: “I thought the same thing! When his friend asked him how much he spent and he said everything in his 401k, I was expecting to hear $75,000 or more.”
More comment on the star’s finances, writing: “I’m not here to defend him, but didn’t he say that he also has a rental condo? But yeah. People have 100k in the bank and they spend like millionaires.”
Others said Luke perhaps “needed to learn the hard way” commenting: “$100k sounds like a lot but when you try to live lavishly it may as well be $100.”
The TV star has received a lot of backlash when it comes to his career. He says on the show he worked as a mining engineer for seven years and earned a lot of money doing it.
Per his LinkedIn page, Luke most recently worked at Martin Marietta for two years as a Senior Technical Sales Rep.
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