Stella Lefty's billionaire dad is helping her music career — just not in the way you think

Stella Lefty performing at Stagecoach Music Festival. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Stagecoach Stella Lefty is a rising pop-country star whose song, "Boston," is a hit on the Billboard charts. Her father is billionaire Eric Lefkofsky, a fact that often comes up in debates about her music. Lefty's success is proof that having a narrative hook can be just as valuable as making good music. The first time I heard Stella Lefty's name, the very next thing I learned was that her father is a billionaire. It's true: The rising pop-country star is the daughter of Eric Lefkofsky, who cofounded Groupon in the aughts and is the CEO of the biotech company Tempus AI. He's worth an estimated $5.4 billion, per Forbes. As Lefty's hit single, "Boston," climbed the Billboard charts this summer, headlines and tweets that referenced her father's net worth in the same breath as her music career were inescapable. "Out of curiosity I checked out her Wiki and she is a level of Nepo Baby that makes Gracie Abrams look like an orphan," one viral tweet about Lefty reads, referencing pop singer Abrams, whose father is famed filmmaker J.J. Abrams. She's easy fodder for reigniting the nepo baby discourse, some