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What Does Jess Even Do For Work?

[What she claims her job is, and what the evidence shows, are widely different]

In the Beats Rewind interview I covered, Jess says that the whole reason she left her job to start her own company was because she wanted to be Renell’s manager.

The company launch was announced in 2017. You can see the date here.

In 2016 she was appointed director at Donna Management. You can see that announcement here.

I’m not saying that she didn’t have a boss to answer to, most people do, it doesn’t say she was president of the company or owned it but a director would be a very high position would it not? Yet, in the Beats interview, she says that she met Renell and told her boss that they had to represent her but I guess her boss didn’t agree. Did she meet Renell before she was promoted to director of Donna Management?

Well, this doesn’t entirely make sense if so, because Jess also claims the push to start her own company was that she wanted to rep Renell but her boss wasn’t too fond of the idea, and the last place she could have possibly had a boss was Donna Management but she was also a director so why not just sign Renell herself? It would seem like at that point she wouldn’t need to ask her boss for approval, but I don’t know.

What I do know is that is the last job she had before she started her own company and she credits Renell entirely with her starting her own company so she couldn’t have met Renell before 2016. In the announcement for Jess’s company launch (and in Jess’s own words), she took a bunch of clients with her from Donna Management to her own company. Something known as poaching, and is terrible, but let’s ignore that. Jess and the official announcement have always said she was taking clients with her. Plural. Not one, but a bunch. It doesn’t mention Renell as being one of those clients (not in the official announcement at least).

However, then in the Beats interview, she said after she started her own company she was freelancing. This also doesn’t make any sense.

If you are a person and you are trying to start your own company (you register yourself as an LLC because you can do that as one person and then freelance to build a list of clients to establish your company that’s how a lot of people do it) then okay, freelancing makes sense. Jess already was supposed to have multiple high-profile clients when she left Donna Management, at that point she was a business, she had a list of clients. The point of freelancing is to build a client list but why would she need to do that when she already had a client list?

She goes on to say that at the time she had moved to California so this would have been around 2017 or 2018 (It could have been 2019 or even 2020 because she seemed to still be operating out of England in 2020 according to an interview I found with Quil where he says he talks to her via Facetime and she’s not in the states). Jess is also extremely vague about the timeline here she never gives a specific year on anything, and though her business was launched in 2017 the website for her agency wasn’t established until 2019. I’m not saying that she didn’t have the business just that she didn’t have the website which is odd because she also had a list of clients and was a business? Or was she?

In any case, she says that at some point anywhere between 2017-2020 she was answering e-mails for Renell and that was all she was doing at first, whilst freelancing. Still, doesn’t make any sense because she was supposed to already have this huge list of clients. Yet, she also left to start her own company to rep Renell but had her own company but wasn’t representing Renell she was just answering her emails. Then eventually “advising her” (on God only knows what). Then at some point, she convinced Renell to start a business or second agency with her in New York.

In the Beats Rewind interview, Jess mentions that Ice Studios (the artist collective) is (or was) an agency but she doesn’t like to think of it as an agency, more of a family. I don’t know if it was registered as an agency at some point (it may have been back in 2018) but it’s not registered as that now (as far as I can tell). If that’s the case, and it was an agency then Jess was running two “talent agencies” at the time, one in NYC with Renell and then her own in the UK. The very, very old Ice Studios website had a list of 5 different artists on it as being part of this “collective”. I guess we can assume these 5 people were Jess’s clients at the time. Maybe?

What it seems like Jess was doing this whole time was answering emails and “advising people”. Now, I get it, that is part of what a talent manager does but it’s kind of a small part of it. There’s also a much bigger part of promotion, branding, networking, getting and finding jobs, etc. Was Jess really doing any of that? It sounds much more like all of these people already had jobs coming into them but they had trouble organizing the jobs via email and social so they hired her to organize the jobs for them. Once again, part of what a manager does but not the entire job.

If Jess was worth her degree in any capacity (if she even has this degree) wouldn’t she have done a much better job handling Ice Studios as a fashion brand and making it into a big thing?

We aren’t talking about a random person off the street with no connections to anyone trying to make a start-up fashion company. We are talking about Jess who, allegedly, was the talent manager for not just Renell but people like Machine Gun Kelly and Justine Skye. She also knew Renell (even if she was only answering her emails when they started this business). However, at the point they decide to go into business together, you’d think that Renell with all the people she knows plus Jess who allegedly has this marketing degree from LCF would have been able to make this brand huge. Jess was supposed to know and be representing all of these famous people and we know Renell definitely knows a bunch more famous people.

Yet, Ice Studios as a brand and an “artist collective” went from going up to tanking. Badly. They went from having Bella Hadid posting about them on Instagram and walking around New York City in their clothing to Bella deleting any promotional posts about them and never bringing them up again. She also doesn’t follow Jess (though she does follow Renell). What happened here that Jess with all of her connections, her literal two talent agencies, and a degree in marketing couldn’t do anything to make this brand successful? If anything she did the opposite.

However, we can take a look at another thing. At some point in 2021 it seems that Jess did hook up with Jamie. It didn’t become officially known until 2022 but then Jamie ended up admitting he’d been seeing her for about a year. She was popping up at fashion events with him, traveling to all of his filming locations, going on fun trips with him, and joining him to attend every convention he was doing at the time. From here there are two possibilities:

She completely neglected her clients and businesses so badly that they tanked in order to be with Jamie and follow him around to do everything he was doing.
Her businesses were never actually that great to begin with or she wasn’t really working as hard as she claims.

With how much she boasts about running these companies you would think that she wouldn’t completely neglect them and let them tank all for the sake of getting in bed with Jamie because you’d think they’d be important to her. Yet, that’s what it looks like happened (in theory) if you also believe she had clients and was successful before she dated him. If what she’s saying is the truth, she had a list of clients, she was doing very well for herself, the business she started with Renell in 2021 was taking off and then she threw it all away for Jamie. Something I doubt he’d have asked her to do and something I doubt she’d have wanted to do if she were that passionate about this job, to begin with.

It’s more likely that Jess was never all that successful from the start. She didn’t have these thriving businesses, she was kind of part of something with Renell (but no more than a glorified secretary), and then she thought there was a better opportunity for her by getting with Jamie, put all of her eggs in that basket, and didn’t really do anything else. If all she ever was doing was answering emails then yes, she could have done that job remotely. Except, as I said, that’s not the only part of being a talent manager so if she was being paid that kind of salary for answering emails I don’t know how she conned these people into that. She probably wasn’t but, who knows?

The more you look at this from Jess’s own statements and timeline and version of events the more it looks like none of this possibly happened the way she claimed in the first place. If it did, then she threw away a bunch of clients and an entire business just to be with Jamie and I’m sure she didn’t have to do that to date him. If it didn’t happen this way then she’s just a liar or greatly exaggerating what her job was (and still is) before she got with him in the first place.

All of this being as murky and weird as it is leads me to believe that Jess has never told the truth about anything she’s done for a job. It’s always either been an outright lie or a massive exaggeration because she was trying to look better than she actually was. If I happen to be wrong and she legitimately was very successful and had all these clients and Ice Studios was doing well before she met Jamie she gave it all up for Jamie, and (newsflash) that’s not what a strong independent woman does. So…what exactly does everyone make of this? Can anyone find anything to explain it? Or does it look exactly how it sounds?