Jay-Z and Beyoncé ’s attorney, Alex Spiro , condemned Piers Morgan for his recent interview with Jaguar Wright after the R&B singer compared the couple to Sean “Diddy” Combs . “There’s rumors and then there’s nonsense and this is one step further. This is a pointed and formal accusation of something.
I felt they needed to be responded to,” Spiro said in a Wednesday, October 9, interview with TMZ . “I think somebody reported it was a cease and desist. It was quite bluntly an ultimatum which is, remove that false accusation that’s demonstrably false or a court’s going to order you to.
” Morgan, 59, spoke with Wright, 47, on his show Uncensored , where they discussed Diddy’s recent arrest. Wright alleged that Jay-Z, 54, and Beyoncé, 43, had more “victims” than Diddy. Morgan later revealed that the A-List couple’s legal team contacted him and the show stating that Wright’s claims “were totally false and have no basis in fact.
” The journalist subsequently apologized to Jay-Z and Beyoncé on-air. “Jaguar, 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,” Morgan said.
“We had lawyers contact us to say that those claims were totally false and have no basis in fact, and we’ve therefore complied with a legal request to cut them from the original interview.” He continued: “Editing interviews .
