Did Rihanna cause trouble between Beyoncé and Jay-Z?
He was silent for 10 years, Jonathan Hay is now a repentant. Rihanna's former agent confessed this week that it was he who started the crazy rumor of Jay-Z's infidelities in 2005. At the time, his client began a promising career that needed a little help. inch, he justifies. He then repeats to whoever will listen that Rihanna and Jay-Z are more than colleagues. A mistake he now regrets, when a sulphurous biography of Beyoncé ensures that the Carter couple separated for a year, during the said ordeal.
It was the upcoming publication (October 27) of a scandalous book Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story, written by J Randy Taraborrelli that reignited the crazy rumor. Beyoncé and Jay-Z, a couple since 2002, reportedly separated for a year to overcome a crisis called Rihanna. At the time, the young starlet was 17 years old and began her career under the wing of the famous hip-hop producer. In 2005, she released Pon the replay and hit the charts. SOS will follow in 2006 then Umbrella in 2007, which will perpetuate its celebrity.
Even then, his close collaboration with Jay-Z was already sowing the seeds of doubt. The rapper is 35 and his partner Beyoncé is 24. The arrival of a beautiful (younger) girl will upset the couple, explains J Randy Taraborrelli in his book. The writer who prides himself on telling Beyoncé's secret life story explains, "They spent a year apart, Beyoncé didn't know what to do, and they broke up for a little while."
A testimony that could not be more false, now explains Jonathan Hay. A former agent for Rihanna, he remembers in 2005 that he was the one who fabricated this story to advertise his client. "It was subconscious, and I didn't think it would work, it was like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it would stick," he wrote in an official statement.
He added, “I didn't think it would get any bigger. But now that I see Beyoncé on the cover of this book, and I know that people are taking advantage of this speculation, my heart hurts. " An apology that comes at the right time, as the former agent left his old job behind to break into music. Under the mysterious name of Urban Hitchcock, the latter has just released his own tracks When Worlds Collide on the audio streaming platform… Tidal, a company partly owned by the Carter couple!
