E! News has added not one but two descriptors to the “mystery man” seen with Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne over the past few months. First, his name is Phillip Sarofim. Second, he is the son of a “Texas billionaire” named Fayez Sarofim.
From Wikipedia:
Fayez Sarofim is a Coptic American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds, an original and second largest shareholder of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and part owner of the NFL team Houston Texans…With an estimated current net worth of $1.91 billion, Sarofim is ranked by Forbes as the 847-richest person in the world, in 2015.
A source tells E! the two “met through friends at a dinner party and hit it off” earlier this year. Said another source, “He was a billionaire. She, uh, wasn’t. Can I make it any more obvious?”