Beyonce and Jay Z‘s fractured marriage is now in ruins after the 34-year-old superstar singer dropped Lemonade – her latest album filled with bombshell new hints that the rap mogul cheated on her! Fans surmised that the release of the album on Jay Z’s Tidal music service was a sign all was well. But RadarOnline.com has learned that is not the case behind closed doors!
According to a well-connected insider, “Beyonce and Jay Z initially put their entire household staff on hiatus until May. But this week, they suddenly let everyone know that they won’t be needed until further notice.”
“For a couple who loves to be waited on hand and foot, this is a huge red flag.”
So is this the last straw for the duo, whose marriage has been plagued with adultery allegations?
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As Radar exclusively reported, there has been trouble for months. After moving into a Bel Air rental in late 2015, the parents to four-year-old Blue Ivy were sleeping in separate bedrooms on opposite ends of the house!
In addition, they have been spending more time apart than together as Bey focuses on her upcoming tour and expanding empire that includes a new fashion line and music label.
In fact, they haven’t been photographed together since early March.
Beyoncé’s Unauthorized Biographer Explains Why “Lemonade” Isn’t the True Story of Jay Z’s Infidelity
This past weekend, Beyoncé delivered Lemonade, her sixth studio album and most intimate project to date. While the album and film are about a lot of profound things, several of the songs delve heavily into the notion of infidelity. Given previous rumors and a very intense Jay Z cameo during the “Sandcastles” portion of the visual, many assume that these songs are all about the marriage between Jay Z and Beyoncé. Many, except for celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, who last year released the unauthorized biography Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story. In the book, Taraborrelli writes that Beyoncé’s father, Mathew Knowles, cheated on her mother, Tina, and according to Taraborrelli, Beyoncé’s first love Lyndall Locke also cheated on her. However, when it comes to the marriage of Jay and Bey, Taraborrelli simply doesn’t believe that all is what it seems with respect to Lemonade. Cosmopolitan.com spoke with him about what he thinks is really going on.
In the book you write at great length about the notion of cheating in Beyoncé’s life. There’s her father’s history of it, there’s her first boyfriend, and there’s speculation about Jay Z. How did you uncover what was going on?First of all, we spent 40 hours with Lyndall, so that was very enlightening because she’s only had two relationships – Lyndall and Jay Z. Lyndall was with her for a third of her life, and he was very clear with us that she feels very strongly because of what she went through with him and what she has seen in her parents’ marriage that she would not accept infidelity in a relationship. But I think that she’s also a very calculating career strategist who understands how to take full advantage of the popular narrative about her life, and the popular narrative about her life right now is that she and Jay Z are having marital problems. Now, I’m not a psychic, I’m a biographer, and I can’t say that Jay Z didn’t have a one-night stand in a tour bus a week ago, but I do know from my studying of Beyoncé [that] her personality is such that if in fact she was actually having marital problems, she would not be sitting down writing songs about it for the nation to dissect and interpret. That’s not who she is. She’s too private a person to handle her marital dysfunction for the world to see and examine. More likely what she’s doing is she’s possibly writing about her mother’s marriage and what she witnessed there. That sounds like Beyoncé. Or she’s taking the general consensus [of what] the nation feels about her marriage to Jay Z, and she’s capitalizing on it and giving the public what they want, which is the intrigue about that relationship.
But it’s a real stretch to say that she is the kind of artist who only writes from personal experience. Sometimes she does of course, like all artists, but you can’t take every song that she writes and assume that what’s going on in the song is actually what’s going on in her private life. That’s just not the way it works. For instance, the song on the album called “Daddy Lessons,” in which she says that her father told her that if she ever comes across a man like him, she should shoot him with a rifle – I sort of doubt that Mathew ever told her that.
At the end of Lemonade, the assumption is that they’re staying together; however, Tina and Mathew separated. So if the story is about them, why didn’t she end the story discussing the end of a relationship?Again, that’s jumping to the conclusion that everything that she’s writing about is true, and I just don’t think that’s the way she works. What artists do is take bits and pieces of stories, and they compose fiction that may be based on true events, but it’s not necessarily the true event. We can’t know what’s going on in Beyoncé’s marriage to Jay Z; we can’t presume to know all of the fine points of this relationship that’s almost 20 years old. I’m not that guy who’s going to sit here and have absolute pronouncements about the private life of any person that I write about, but I am the guy who can take a look at that person’s character and personality and how she has lived her life in the past, and come to the conclusion that if in fact all this was true, she wouldn’t be telling us about it. She’s not that girl you know who is that open about the secrets of her marriage that she’s going to allow public scrutiny of all of this. She’s more the type of person who is putting together an interesting concept that she knows people will latch onto because of the popular rumors about her marriage, and then it’s going to cause you and I to do this interview. That’s what she’s about. She’s not about sharing her private life with the world. She’s about marketing and branding and selling records, and there’s nothing wrong with that
