Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles says her Instagram was hacked after she appeared to like an Instagram post reporting that son-in-law Jay-Z was accused of gang-raping a 13 year-old girl with Diddy.
The fashion designer, 70, who is mother to Beyoncé, 43, and Solange, 38, with ex-husband Mathew Knowles, 72, said in a message posted to her account Monday, ‘I was Hacked!’
Tina said, ‘As you all know I do not play about my family. So if you see something uncharacteristic of me just know it is not me.’
Tina added in the caption, ‘Please stop playing with me !!!! “No weapon formed against my family shall prosper.”‘
The initial post liked by her account was shared on Instagram by abc7Chicago and was captioned: ‘Breaking news: Jay-Z, Diddy named in lawsuit alleging rape of girl, 13.’
Dailymail.com has reached out to representatives for Tina Knowles and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation for further comment on this story.
Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles, 70, says her Instagram was hacked after she appeared to like an Instagram post reporting that son-in-law Jay-Z, 55, was accused of gang-raping a 13 year-old girl with Diddy, 55
The fashion designer, who is mother to Beyoncé, 43, and Solange, 38, with ex-husband Mathew Knowles, 72, clarified her stance on the issue amid confusion from her earlier ‘like’
Knowles, 70, has not commented in public about the bombshell accusation against Jay-Z, real name Shawn Corey Carter, who is the father of her three grandchildren.
Jay-Z has denied the attack the victim claims took place at a VMA’s afterparty in September 2000, while an unidentified female celebrity watched.
The anonymous victim previously referred to Jay-Z as ‘Celebrity A’ in the bombshell filing, with the female star accused of watching anonymized as ‘Celebrity B.’
This made Jay-Z the first celebrity to be named alongside Diddy in one of the myriad lawsuits filed against Combs. Both rappers have denied all allegations.
The accuser said she was assaulted at a party after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, which took place September 7, 2000 at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.
In the lawsuit, she said she took a drink at the afterparty which had ‘a reddish-yellow mixture that tasted like orange juice, cranberry juice, and something bitter’ and ‘began to feel woozy and lightheaded, making her need to lie down.’
She said she laid down in ‘what appeared to be an empty bedroom’, until Combs, Jay-Z and a female celebrity referred to as ‘Celebrity B’ entered the room.
The 70-year-old ‘liked’ an ABC Instagram post (shown above) announcing the news that son-in-law had been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean Combs
Tina said Monday, ‘Please stop playing with me !!!! “No weapon formed against my family shall prosper.”‘ Pictured earlier this month in LA
‘Combs aggressively approached Plaintiff with a crazed look in his eyes, grabbed her, and said, “You are ready to party!”‘ legal documents read.
The accuser said Combs threw her ‘toward a wall,’ leading her to fall, then ‘grabbed her again and threw her on the bed.’
She said Jay-Z began stripping her down ‘as she grew more and more disoriented’ and held her down as ‘he vaginally raped’ her, while Combs and Celebrity B watched.
‘After [Jay-Z] finished, he stepped back toward the wall. Combs then stepped forward and vaginally raped Plaintiff while Carter and Celebrity B watched,’ the document reads.
The lawsuit had initially been filed in New York’s Southern District this past October against Combs, with a refiling on Sunday which identified Jay-Z.
Knowles’ initial social media move was spotted by eagle-eyed followers, while others pointed out that the ‘like’ could have been a mistake.
‘Not Ms Tina Knowles liking the post!’ one person wrote, sparking a frenzy of speculation.
‘Tina most likely doesn’t even like him bc of what he did to her daughter,’ one person mused, in an apparent nod to Jay-Z’s past admission that he’d cheated on Beyoncé.
Jay-Z pictured during the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in NYC, the event his accuser named in legal documents as preceding her assault
Jay-Z has been unmasked as the mystery celebrity accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl with Diddy at a 2000 VMA’s afterparty, according to a lawsuit. (Pictured: Jay-Z and Sean Combs at Puffy’s Fourth of July Party at Sean Combs’ House on July 2, 2000)
The anonymous victim previously referred to the rapper, whose real name is Shawn Corey Carter, as ‘Celebrity A’ in the bombshell filing. Jay-Z has denied the allegations. (Pictured: Diddy and Jay-Z during “S.O.S” The BET Telethon Relief Show at CBS Studios in 2005)
Later Monday, after she distanced herself from the ‘like’ on the post, some of Tina’s 4.1 million followers expressed skepticism in regards to her explanation.
‘How you get hacked and they only liked one post??’ said one user.
Another pointed out, ‘Hackers will hack every celebrity in the world but they refuse to hack the student loan system.’
One user asked Tina, ‘You have a whole PR team and this is what you guys come up with.’
One user said, ‘Mama we know you liked without realizing it … it’s okay.’
Others were supportive of the show biz matriarch as she navigated the troubled waters.
Multiple users said that Tina doesn’t ‘play about her family,’ with one user, saying, ‘CLOCK THEM TINA.’
Beyonce and Jay-Z have been an R&B power couple for more than 20 years. They got married in April 2008, and by April 2014, they had sold a combined 300 million records together.
Later Monday, after she distanced herself from the ‘like’ on the post, some of Tina’s 4.1 million followers expressed skepticism in regards to her explanation
Others were supportive of the show biz matriarch as she navigated the troubled waters
They share three children together – Blue Ivy, 12, and six-year-old twins Rumi and Sir Carter.
But their relationship was rumbled in the early days by rumors that Jay-Z had cheated on her with his protege, Rihanna, and there was speculation that they went on a break for a time in 2005.
Jay-Z admitted to cheating on Beyonce in a New York Times interview published in 2017, but didn’t say who the betrayal was with.
Beyoncé has not been implicated in any of the Diddy lawsuits.
Jay-Z, 55, issued a blistering response to the lawsuit via DailyMail.com, accusing the victim of attempting to ‘blackmail’ him.
The rapper claimed he feared that his three children with Beyoncé would have to ‘endure’ harassment in the wake of the allegations.
Jay-Z said he is especially worried about Blue Ivy. He is afraid she will face questions from her friends about the lawsuit. The couple also share twins Rumi and Sir, seven.
‘My only heartbreak is for my family,’ Jay-Z told DailyMail.com on Sunday.
Jay-Z issued a lengthy statement Sunday denying the claims made in the re-filed lawsuit
‘My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people.’
Jay-Z said he mourned ‘yet another loss of innocence’ and declared that his ‘children should not have to endure’ the graphic accusations at their young age.
‘It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit,’ he said.
Tony Buzbee, who is representing the alleged Diddy victim from the 2000 VMA’s afterparty along with more than 100 others, also named Jay-Z as the celebrity who allegedly ‘filed a frivolous case under a pseudonym’ against their legal team.
The Texas-based attorney claimed Jay-Z has ‘tried to bully and harass’ him and his client over the incident said to have happened at a 2000 VMA’s afterparty – but this has backfired by ’emboldening’ them to take the case to court.
Tony Buzbee, who is representing more than 100 alleged Diddy victims, has now also named Jay-Z as the celebrity who allegedly ‘filed a frivolous case under a pseudonym’ against the accuser’s legal team
‘Regarding the Jay-Z case and his efforts to silence my clients: Mr. Carter previously denied being the one who sued me and my firm,’ Buzbee said in a statement.
‘He filed his frivolous case under a pseudonym. What he fails to say in his recent statement is my firm sent his lawyer a demand letter on behalf of an alleged victim and that victim never demanded a penny from him.
‘Instead, she only sought a confidential mediation. Since I sent the letter on her behalf, Mr. Carter has not only sued me, but he has tried to bully and harass me and this plaintiff.
‘His conduct has had the opposite impact. She is emboldened. I’m very proud of her resolve. As far as the allegations in the complaint filed, we will let the filing speak for itself and will litigate the facts in court, not in the media.’
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