The employee of the Standard Hotel who leaked the footage has apparently been fired. The statement adds, "At the end of the day families have problems and we're no different." There's no word as to whether this counts as one of Jay Z's 99 problems. The statement to the Associated Press doesn't reveal what sparked the "unfortunate incident," saying only that it's a "private matter." It does explain, however, that Solange and Jay acknowledge their role in the dispute and "both have apologized to each other." Reports of Solange's erratic behaviour throughout the night are apparently untrue, and the family have since moved on together. Now, the family have issued a statement about the incident, which occurred on May 5 following a Met Gala after-party. Stiviano draw out Clippers owner Donald Sterling - actually listening to the tape, not just reading the words in print - and hearing him berate her is sickening.Earlier this week, security camera footage of Beyoncé's sister Solange Knowles attacking her brother-in-law Jay Z leaked online. Watching a woman so thoroughly lose it is degrading. If we paused to consider the experience itself, we might acknowledge the misery of it. “But I am not sure how true that actually is. “There is a reason we so greedily gorge on private moments of famous people: We think we want to know everything about their lives, particularly those of people we admire,” Alyssa Rosenberg writes at The Washington Post. Over at The Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber offers four ways of looking at the footage: as a clash between god-like figures and the values they represent as a chance to rubberneck someone else’s personal tragedy as an opportunity to examine the forces of gender and race in pop culture and as a sign of alarming levels of surveillance that are particularly at odds with Queen Bey’s strict management of her own public image. Caitlin Dewey at The Washington Post notes that Monday’s news made Solange “quantifiably more famous now than she’s ever been before.”
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, as the old adage goes. Though it appeared that Solange had deleted deleted Beyoncé photos off her Instagram, BuzzFeed points out that’s not true. Jay Z and Beyoncé were just chillin’ at a basketball game Monday night, while TMZ reports that Solange and Jay Z went jewelry shopping at - where else? - Mr. We are investigating with the utmost urgency the circumstances surrounding the situation and, as is our customary practice, will discipline and prosecute the individuals involved to our fullest capacity.
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. A representative from the Standard Hotel issued this statement before eventually firing the employee responsible for the leaked footage: They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family.” After some much-analyzed Instagram activity, the family released a joint statement on May 15: “ both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. There’s her falling out with former collaborator Dev Hynes, her awkward TV interview from 2008, the time she called out Beyoncé birth truthers (which could probably use its own Vox explainer) - and then, of course, there’s the greatest outburst of them all, bananagate. “My sister told me I should speak my mind,” Beyoncé sings on her feminist anthem “***Flawless.” When it comes to being outspoken, clearly Solange leads by example - BuzzFeed rounded up of all the other times Solange got really mad in public, on television or on the Internet.