Not Strictly Business: Couples Who Work Together
These lovers have great boardroom chemistry as well.
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Beyoncé and Jay Z - Not all couples avoid mixing business with pleasure. These celebs are not only partners in the bedroom, but in business as well. Jay and Bey are the ultimate power couple, with a whole array of separate and combined business and person interests with the most recent being their daughter Blue Ivy. On the business front, hip hop's first couple just kicked off their joint On The Run tour in Miami.(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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Cookie & Magic Johnson - Being married for 23 years is no easy task, but this basketball legend and his business saavy wife sure do make it look easy. In an interview with Ebony magainze, the couple talks about working together, with Magic deeming his wife's entrepreneurial spirit "sexy."(Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee - This dearly departed couple has not only served as peronsal pillars of support in each other's lives, they have worked together on countless films together that have gone done in African-American history. Some of these include Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, and A Raisin in the Sun.(Photo: Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian - This recently married couple is known for being in the tabloids quite often. In addition to producing a gorgeous baby girl together, KimYe has worked together in various professional capacities, specifically in the fields of fashion and design.(Photo: Courtesy of Vogue, April 2014)
Photo By Vogue, April 2014
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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon - After being married for six years, music icon Mariah Carey and entrepreneur Nick Cannon have had a slew of collective personal achievements, with the heighest being having "dem babies." (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images For Nickelodeon)
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Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe - This gorgeous couple not only has the best chemistry off the set; they connect amazingly on it as well, proving so on the various projects that they have worked on together including Soul Food, and The Real Husbands of Hollywood.(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for BET)
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Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil - This behind-the-scenes dynamic duo (Mara writes, Salim directs) is responsible for some of our favorite entertainment, from TV shows such as Being Mary Jane, Girlfriends, and The Game to movies like Sparkle. But it took forging out on their own with Akil Productions to get Hollywood to realize two doesn't come for the price of one. "If you want us both, you have to pay us both," Mara says. Still sounds like a deal to us. (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
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Ice-T and Coco Austin - The rapper-turned-respected actor found a goldmine in his professional and personal life with Coco Austin. He also found a second career as a reality star alongside his buxom wife in the surprisingly sweet series Ice Loves Coco.(Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith - Though it's been years since they've starred together on screen, this Hollywood power couple share plenty of assets: property, restaurants, a school and, most notably, their mini-mes Jaden and Willow, who look ready to surpass their parents' net worth any day now.(Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose - Amber Rose scored a triple threat in Wiz: fiancé, image coach, and producer. Khalifa single-handedly transformed Rose from Kanye's personal dress-up doll to bona fide recording artist with a little help from some of his famous friends. There's nothing like a relationship that makes your R&B dreams come true. (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
Photo By Christopher Polk/Getty Images
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Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons - No one does "ex" better than these two. Kimora started off as Russell's muse, but Miss Fabulosity quickly took over and became the force behind the couple's Baby Phat enterprise. Despite divorcing years ago, the couple remains close friends and even closer business partners. (Photo: Jerritt Clark/Getty Images)
