New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft celebrated his 80th birthday celebration on Sunday, with a portion of his celebrity friends surprising him with a startling present – a shining new Bentley.
Rapper Meek Mill posted a video on his Instagram record of a staggered Kraft getting the vehicle. Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin, the director of Fanatics, added to the blessing, as did Jay-Z, among others.
All have cooperated in making the Reform Alliance, which since its beginning in 2019 aims to transform probation and parole in the United States.
In the video posted on Instagram, Kraft put two hands on his head after first seeing the vehicle, and said “Oh my God!” He had clearly been expecting to purchase a Bentley, yet apparently couldn’t discover the vehicle he was searching for, which prompted his surprise.
“How did you get it?” Kraft asked Rubin.
Kraft was then told the vehicle had been delivered through on a flatbed from Florida.
Kraft’s connection with Mill is very much reported. He met him through Rubin, visited the rapper in jail in 2018 and afterward talked freely for Mill’s benefit that his sentence was unfair and reflective of a broken criminal justice system.
“It makes it clear to me that we have to do something with criminal justice reform,” Kraft said at the time. “His kind of case, in a situation like this, it’s really bad. I know some of our players in the NFL have talked about this and I see it firsthand; it’s just wrong. We have to find a way to correct it.”
After the Patriots won Super Bowl LIII the Los Angeles Rams, Kraft wore a thick gold chain at the victory parade that was gifted to him by Mill.