This DJ was fashionable and philanthropic in NYC. Cuppy — the London-based music producer and daughter of Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola — was front row at New York Fashion Week this month. But the music maven, who has earned a masters from NYU, wasn’t in town just to be chic.
She also launched a new scholarship program at her alma mater, and hosted a youth event at the UN General Assembly . The DJ (nee Florence Otedola) was seen at a Tory Burch show in Williamsburg , along with other VIPs including Michelle Williams, Ivy Getty, Jodie Turner-Smith, Mindy Kaling and Elizabeth Olsen. The Nigerian-born philanthropist also stopped by NYU days later to launch the Cuppy Africa Steinhardt Scholars Fund, which will “provide stipends to two students in full-time graduate programs at Steinhardt to meet their unexpected and urgent financial needs,” the school said.
Also at the event was Charlemagne tha God. Cuppy — who once interned at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation , and has another graduate degree from Oxford — said at the event: “Nigeria is one of the most exciting, vibrant countries in the world, but it’s also a place where education is very much a privilege..
. In higher education, you realize that everyone is coming from a different life stage, and I want to help people who’ve gotten into NYU stay there.” The dress code for the event was, “African inspired attire.
” While in town, Cuppy, 31 — who also heads Red Velvet Music Group and the Cuppy Foundation — mod.