Beckham’s company DB Ventures filed a lawsuit against the fitness franchise F45 Training, which Wahlberg partially owns, in May 2023. The soccer star claimed in court documents obtained by TMZ that he’d been “duped” into signing an endorsement deal with the company and never received the $10 million he was offered in contract negotiations.
According to the lawsuit, Beckham was promised “nearly 1 million shares of stock” from F45 within six months of the company going public. However, he claimed he received the shares eight months late after they had lost $9.3 million in value. Beckham’s legal team also alleged that additional shares worth $5 million were never delivered.Beckham is seeking $14.3 million in damages, not including interest.
The twosome became acquainted after David and his wife, Victoria Beckham, purchased a home in Beverly Hills in 2007. Although they later became friends, Wahlberg took issue with the extra attention the Beckhams brought to his neighborhood during a 2009 interview with the Daily Mail. “I met him and some of his sons and he seems like a nice guy. … I wanted to make sure he hadn’t taken that personally,” Wahlberg said.Although David is suing F45 and not Wahlberg directly, legal expert and attorney Neama Rahmani, who is not involved with the case, exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2024 that the lawsuit still suggests bad blood between the twosome.