Various tabloids have reported that Jay-Z and Beyonce’s divorce is back on, and if it isn’t – it most likely will be after Taraborrelli’s explosive book hits the stores. Rihanna’s lawyer, Jordan Siev, told the paper, “Hay was never Rihanna’s publicist or had any personal or professional relationship with her”. Evidently, starting a cheating rumor was the way to go. “Hopefully this news hasn’t ruined that relationship for me”, Hay explained in an email to the New York Daily News.
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Daily News quoted Hay as saying, “I was blindsided by the news of “Becoming Beyoncé” coming out and it couldn’t come at a worse time for me”.
I did not hire Jonathan Hay to promote Rihanna [or] “Pon de Replay”…
Mirror cited Taraborrelli’s interview with Heat Magazine wherein he said: “One thing I’ve learnt from spending two years looking at Bey’s life is that if you think she’s that girl who’s going to sit on the sidelines and watch her husband cheat, then you are very wrong”. “I was just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick”. But now, seeing Beyoncé on the cover of this book and knowing that people are profiting from speculations and opinions about her really turns my stomach. “I talked to the author for the first time this Sunday”.
Hay is hoping his stunt won’t affect his affiliation with Tidal, a music streaming service owned by the music industry moguls, where Hay is now releasing projects under his Urban Hitchcock label.
On the infamous Jay-Z versus Solange Knowles – Beyonce’s sister – elevator incident of 2014, Hay thinks the fight was real, but also speculates that it was exploited to gather publicity for Jay-Z and Beyonce’s On The Run tour that summer.
So let’s be clear: Jay and RiRi did not have sexual relations.
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The story successfully circulated, causing Jay-Z and Beyonce – now known as the music industry’s power couple, but were dating back when the rumor came to light – to break up for year because Beyonce did not want to be involved in a love triangle. A split, or baby no. 2?
