It’s not known if TMZ paid to obtain the video Pictures of Prince Harry playing strip billiards in August 2012 in a Las Vegas hotel were rumored to have been purchased for a mere $15,000. After the Met Gala in May 2014, a video showing Solange Knowles beating up Jay Z, her brother-in-law, in an elevator quickly went viral. Jay Z and Solange fighting in the elevator following the MET Gala. TMZ is known for big scoops in gossip, including, recently, an audiotape of Los Angeles Clippers owner Don Sterling telling V Stiviano, who describes herself as his personal assistant, “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people.” Beyonce was rumored to have filmed a music video at the hotel last year. “We are shocked and disappointed that there was a clear breach of our security system and the confidentiality that we count on providing our guests,” the Standard Hotel said in a statement. The rapper defends himself before the large man gets the attacker in a bear hug, from which she momentarily escapes to take another big kick at her brother-in-law. Surveillance video appeared to show Solange and JAY-Z getting into an argument as Beyoncé witnessed the incident in an elevator following a 2014 Met Gala afterparty. She points in his face and appears to be speaking harshly to him, although there is no audio recording. The three-and-a-half minute video begins with a woman, apparently Beyoncé, entering the elevator, followed by her sister, her husband and a large second man, who appears to be a bodyguard.Īfter the elevator door closes, Solange attacks Jay Z, by TMZ’s account. The trio were leaving a 5 May party after the Met ball in the Boom Boom Room, the Standard’s rooftop club. The video apparently shows Solange Knowles lashing out at Jay Z while his wife, Beyoncé, stands by. It was not known how TMZ obtained the material, which appeared to be recorded on a camera as it was played back on a security monitor.
The video was published online on Monday by the California-based news outlet TMZ, which claimed the footage, taken from the inside of an elevator in Manhattan’s Standard hotel, showed an altercation between the pair as they were leaving a party there last week. A New York City hotel expressed shock on Monday that security camera footage of a fight in an elevator, apparently involving the rapper Jay Z and his sister-in-law Solange Knowles, ended up being posted on a celebrity website. Hotel Fires Staffer Who Leaked Video of Solange Knowles Attack on Jay Z The person's employment has been terminated for 'breaching the security policies of the hotel' By Tim Nudd Updated May 15.