We tried to explain Wright was an insider once but not anymore and we urged them to be careful and cautious. Now Alex Spiro, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s attorney is setting the record straight about the the whole mess: Spiro appeared on TMZ recently to break down the headline-making interview with Piers Morgan and Jaguar Wright days, and days after Morgan issued an official apology and retraction of Wright’s unfounded claims about the couple.
In the interview with TMZ, Spiro dove directly into the whole debacle that was that Piers Morgan Uncensored interview.
“There’s rumors, and then there’s nonsense, and this is one step further,” Spiro said in the clip. “This is a pointed and formal accusation of something and I think it needed to be responded to.”
In the clip, he described the legal action that the Carters took as not a cease and desist but, “quite bluntly an ultimatum.” He explained, “Remove that false accusation, that’s demonstrably false, or a court’s gonna order you to. And I think he made the wise choice and acted accordingly.”
He added that someone on a journalistic platform exploited the “random rumor mill” and “lifted it up,” ultimately causing harm and “drowning out the voices of real victims.” He concluded that in a situation like this, “somebody who puts themselves out as a journalist should not effectively take advantage of the situation and exploit somebody in this way.”
As we reported, Morgan spoke directly to camera when apologizing and retracting the claims made in the interview, saying that Wright’s claims were “totally false and have no basis in fact.” He said, “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.”
When the interview dropped between Morgan and Wright, we wrote that it marked the first time Wright, a personality known online and in Black circles for years, received a platform of that size, and ultimately, a larger (and whiter) audience.
While the conspiracy theories will surely continue to spin out of control as the Diddy legal drama continues to play out in real-time, the Carters’ legal boundary could perhaps be the first of many for celebrities being roped into this story, many of whom just by simple hearsay and unfounded claims.