Jack Antonoff Biography

Jack and his friend Scott Irby-Ranniar formed a band, Steel Train, in 2002, where he was the lead singer. Later, he joined a new band Fun and released its debut album, Aim and Ignite, in 2009. Fun's popular single, We Are Young, hit the no.1 position and earned several awards. 

Moreover, Antonoff had also done a collaboration with Taylor Swift, Sara Bareilles (who has a net worth around 12 million American dollars), Grimes, Zayn and other. His co-written and co-production songs Out of the Woods, I Wish You Would and You Are In Love, the last one released in 2014 October, became part of some of the biggest-selling albums in the United States.   

As a musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, Jack Antonoff has earned wide recognition and fame in his career. He has won Grammy awards thrice and was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his collaboration with Taylor Swift. Jack received a Grammy in the Song of the Year category for his written song We Are Young and also received another Grammy for Album of the Year for his collaboration with Taylor Swift. 

Moving towards his personal life, Jack Antonoff dated American actress Scarlett Johansson for a year from 2001 to 2002. She was his classmate in high school. He also had an affair with Alia Shawkat for a year from 2009 to 2010. Then after, he started dating Lena Dunham with who he is dating since 2012. 

Recently, at the beginning of 2018, the couple broke up after more than 5 years of relationship. Soon after the breakup, Antonoff was seen with a blonde model in an Italian eatery in New York. Similarly, rumors have it that Jack was in a relationship with girlfriend New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde. Antonoff however has denied it. 

Jack Antonoff earns the good sum of money from his professional career. Being musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, he has several sources of income by which he is able to maintain his luxury life. It is estimated that his current net worth is around $4 million.

Antonoff owns a studio apartment in Brooklyn that he shared with his girlfriend Lena Dunham until recently when they broke up after five years. Although we are not sure about Antonoff’s guitar collection, he has been seen playing a number of guitars, including a Gibson ES-330 (Duplicate), Gibson SJ-200 Acoustic Guitar, Epiphone Wilshire Phant-o-matic, Epiphone Riviera Custom P-93 Royale, Fender Stratocaster Deluxe (Duplicate), Gibson ES-355 Electric Guitar, Gibson ES-335 Electric Guitar, Gibson LG-2 American Eagle, Epiphone ES-339 Pro and a Fender Jaguar Electric Guitar.      

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