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JAY-Z and Beyoncé have received an apology from Piers Morgan after he gave airtime to unsubstantiated allegations about the power couple.
On his show Piers Morgan Uncensored, which airs on YouTube, the controversial broadcaster hosted the singer Jaguar Wright, who made a number of wild claims about Jay and Bey during the interview.
Wright claimed that Carters are a “nasty couple” who do “nasty things,” such as “keeping people against their will, putting people on planes while they’re unconscious, just like Aaliyah got on that plane, unconscious.”
She added that “Diddy and JAY-Z are monsters,” and compared the rap moguls to deceased convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Wright offered no evidence to back up her claims.
Morgan has now made the rare move of apologizing to JAY-Z and Beyoncé on his show after the couple’s lawyers got in touch regarding Wright’s remarks, which they claim are “totally false.”
“Last week, I interviewed Jaguar Wright, a singer-songwriter who’s made claims about Diddy for years,” Morgan began. “Those claims will receive a lot of attention in the media across many platforms for many years.
“And that’s the thing about platforms. The reality of the modern world is that pretty much everyone has a platform as long as they have something to say that other people want to hear.
“That’s why we invited her on to be interviewed. The people making these claims have an audience with or without shows like mine.”
He continued: “Jaguar Wright unexpectedly made several serious allegations about JAY-Z and Beyoncé during that interview. As I said, in the moment, they were not present to respond or defend themselves.
“But now they have. Their lawyers contacted us to say that those claims were totally false and have no basis in fact.”
Morgan concluded his apology by saying: “And we’ve therefore complied with the legal request to cut them from the original interview. Editing interviews is not something we do lightly on a show called Uncensored.
“But, like the proverbial cries of fire in a crowded theater, there are legal limits on us, too. And we apologize to JAY-Z and Beyoncé.”
Wright has yet to respond to Morgan removing her comments from their interview.
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Diddy‘s rape accuser Thalia Graves allegedly offered her ex-boyfriend $3 million to corroborate her claims against the Bad Boy Records boss.
Graves is suing Diddy, as well as his former bodyguard Joseph Sherman, over an alleged rape that she claims occurred in 2001 while she was dating one of the mogul’s employees.
TMZ now claim to have seen text messages between Graves and her then boyfriend from November 2023 in which she says she plans to sue Diddy “because he’s the one that has the money.”
Graves then allegedly proceeds to ask her ex-boyfriend to back up her story by saying that he has seen a video of the alleged incident.
She messages him: “What do you n$3 mil?”
TMZ claim to have spoken to the boyfriend who has verified the messages and says that he interpreted the text as a bribe, leading him to block Graves’ number as well as her social media pages.
Diddy’s lawyers also appear to have the text messages.
Graves’ attorney responded to the bombshell development in a statement, saying: “It is very common that rich powerful men and their supporters attempt to discredit, shame and humiliate accusers who have the courage to come forward. The complaint speaks for itself. Our client is looking forward to her day in court.”
After the lawsuit was made public in a press conference last month, Sherman came forward to deny Graves’ claims.
The bodyguard told NBC New York in an emotional interview: “It’s a lie on me. I don’t know this lady from anywhere. […] I am not questioning her integrity. I am just questioning her claims against me.
“You got the wrong man! I wasn’t even in the same room with you. I have never seen you. I wasn’t even in New York that I recall at the time.”
“Her and whoever she’s in cahoots with was orchestrating a money grab. And she wanted me to be part of that money grab…She wanted to get Diddy,” he added.
According to Sherman, he did work security for Diddy and Bad Boy Records in the ’90s, but was no longer with the company at the time she alleges the rape occured.
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