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A NEW YORK hotel has fired an employee over a leaked video showing rapper Jay Z being attacked by sister-in-law Solange Knowles in a lift as wife Beyoncé looked on.
In a statement that did not name names, The Standard said it had identified the person responsible for breaching its security policies “and recording the confidential video.”
“The Standard has already terminated the individual and will now be pursuing all available civil and criminal remedies,” it said, adding that it would turn over “all available information” to police.
The fuzzy, silent black-and-white video posted on TMZ.com shows Knowles kicking and hitting Jay Z in the elevator at The Standard hotel, site of an after-party following the glamorous Met Gala in New York on 5 May.
A bodyguard is seen trying to restrain the clearly agitated 27-year-old singer, whose 32-year-old megastar sister Beyoncé stood largely in the corner alongside her 44-year-old husband of six years.
It’s not clear what provoked the incident.
But the trio can be recognised by the outfits they wore earlier that night at the Metropolitan Museum fashion gala — Solange in a pink Phillip Lim dress, Beyoncé in a sheer black Givenchy Haute Couture gown and Jay Z in a white tuxedo jacket.
Solange, whose new album is due out later this year, performed at the Coachella music festival in California last month, where Beyonce joined her on stage, delighting fans.
The Met Gala after-party took place at The Standard’s exclusive rooftop lounge — better known among New York night owls as “the Boom Boom Room.”
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I’m still waiting for refunds from aer lingus from March.
@Motherofthree: correct. It’s not just Ryanair
@Motherofthree: same here
@Motherofthree: Waiting since the beginning of April for my Ryanair refund but Aer Lingus seem to be getting a free pass for a similar offence against their customers.
@Football in the Groin: ya I’m the same, been waiting since the beginning of April, and all I’m wanting is the voucher as I know I have to travel with them again. Good to know I’m not the only one waiting. Has anyone actually heard anything from aerlingus since original contact made?.
@Motherofthree: Ian still waiting since April €1300 rang them a number of time on hold for 27 mins to be told its be locked into. Not never told when iam getting it.its tomevto drive out to the head office in dublin airport.
@Motherofthree: and KLM have been worse than useless
@Motherofthree: http://www.flightrights.ie
If you can, open a transaction dispute with your bank. I highlighted how I never received the goods I paid for and how Ryanair failed to refund multiple times in the times they quoted. It took just under 3 weeks, but much faster than waiting for Ryanair.
@Richard: Was this with a credit card? I paid by debit card. Thanks
@Aoife: same here. Might try with my bank and see what they say. Great idea Richard!
@Aoife: I paid via debt card and chargeback was successful
@Siobhan Rosemary: thanks Siobhan! I’ll try that.
@Richard: just pray that you dont use the same bank as Ryanair. You can already see the conversion, “you start this charge back stuff and I will move my billions”.
@Aoife: always use a credit card if you have one. Covers you for lots of things.
@Richard: I’ve done this asked for a charge back on my card, as Ryanair are in Breach of the contract we had, by failing to deliver on their part, I asked for a charge back and got it within 2 weeks, and just so people are aware, this is not fraud as previously stated by a Ryanair employee, you are entitled to your refund and it’s faster with your credit card company or bank, and you can’t get black listed by Ryanair either.
@Richard: I received chargeback from BOI for 6 flights. I paid by credit card. Took about 2 weeks to get the refund.
@Richard: I rang the Credit Card company and after 30 mins of being fobbed off, they agreed to open a dispute against Ryan air.
There’s one very simple problem here that people seem to be missing : No enforcement of the Law by Authorities and the Airline Regulators! Simples
@Nigel o’Neill: exactly Nigel! And the other thing I was thinking when reading this article. Why is there nothing like Which? in Ireland to conduct research on the Irish consumer base. Why are there no experts on IrelandAM every week guiding Irish consumers on what to do? Where is the outrage over this? So frustrating!
@Vikki Brennan: definitely Vikki. Bottom line is the law should be doing its job for you though
I wonder will it take Ryanair 3 to 6 months to process flight bookings and take the money from your credit card….
@Martin Smith:
Think it’s time the EU instigated a form of escrow service for transactions like this.
Your money is held by a third party and only paid once you got the service.
Aer Lingus aren’t any better. I’ve been waiting t 10 weeks for my refund. Emails go unanswered.
Michael is waiting for the pound to drop in value before he does any refunds .Cute lad.
I’m still waiting on my voucher from Aer Lingus as I believe are many others.
O Leary the hypocrite, all about speeding up the opening up of the country but won’t pay people the money he owes them. Greedy out.
Ah comon, they’ve only 4,000,000,000+ in cash reserves give poor auld Ryanair a break (note: sarcasm, in case not noticed)
Backlog could be largely wiped out by one stroke of Ryanair Mick’s very sharp pencil by offering a voucher for already cancelled flight plus a 50%-off voucher for a second flight at a future date of his firm’s choosing.
With its excellent yield management business model, this shouldn’t be too taxing to plan for the nation’s largest airline.
To get a refund download chargeback form from your bank website,follow instructions and sit back and wait approx 2-3weeks for money to arrive back in your account. It worked for me!! Happy out. Works for debit card also.
You can raise a chargeback with your bank/card provider if the airline is dragging thier feet when it comes to processing a refund , gather all the emails pertaining to your booking and contact your bank requesting a charge-back for the transaction.
its a simple process , the merchant has a number of days to revert back to the bank/card provder in most cases you will get your money back .
In fairness it’s a huge increase in refund transactions to process on a team that could possibly be smaller at present.
@Podge: stop talking real around here!
well there’s a suprize wake up people you are using this kip of an air line and expect to be treated better , the man is a loon and expects to start flying in july not a cold day in hell would I fly with them you get what you pay for
Liz
@Elizabeth Eccles: Aer Lingus no better on refunds
@Elizabeth Eccles: It’s all airlines. The travel industry is short on cash if they refund everyone at the same time they will go bust so it will take months to refund everyone.
@Elizabeth Eccles: actually it’s not a kip of an airline. Its cheap n cheerful. I have to travel frequently to England and I couldn’t do it as often with any other airline. I’m damn grateful for it.
Refunds please.
They gave people the option to change flights. I couldn’t change mine as I had checked in. Spent 4 days trying to get through to them over the home, social, email. I’d better get my money back. Absolute disgrace
I’m shocked that Michael O Leary never mentioned this yesterday when he was huffing and puffing about quarantine measures etc… it’s not like him to ignore the elephant in the room and launch into a tirade in order to distract the nation…. not one bit like him at all….maybe he has jet lag or something! ahem!
I’m still waiting a refund from ryanair after flight was cancelled. Then received an email saying that I can get a voucher. Have not put in for a voucher yet. Also i cancelled an aer lingus flight. And am still waiting for a refund.
If affected you should submit a complaint to http://www.Flightrights.ie the Aviation Regulator. I did 2 weeks ago waiting since March 15th for reply to refund request for flight not cancelled to USA but we could not travel due to travel ban. Simple process. Refund received within 3 days of Regulator contacting Aer Lingus on our behalf. Complaint made under denied boarding heading. Don’t wait submit a complaint.
Air lingus are the same.waiting refund of €1300 since april, ring them and be put on hold for 30mins .Not even send a email to say the flight was cancelled, but a load of emails up to the day before the cancellation of the flight saying we could take a voucher.
You mean … people did get refunds ???
@pomerleau: I did but only after contacting the regulator
I’d have preferred a voucher but strangely there was no such option .
@Isabel Oliveira: when you apply for the refund you’ll get another email offering a voucher.
I’m still waiting on Refund from Aer Lingus, they will not even reply to about 10 emails I sent them.
For Irish consumers where is the Irish Airline Authority, why aren’t they enforcing the law, why inst it too news on RTE, TG4 and others. Total silence from the Irish government to boot.
Seriously, can everyone just cop on. The airlines will all fail and go out of business if they are forced to pay out straight away on cancelled flights. Then you will lose everything. For God’s sake be patient, you will get it back when they get back to normal. And sure most of you will fly again anyway, so vouchers will do. This insistance on immediate refunds is childish and only causing you stress.
@Patricia O’Reilly: I wonder if you where waiting 3 months for a refund, for a service you payed €1300 and never got would you be so flippant.
@Patricia O’Reilly: ok Patricia you think waiting 3 months for a €2k refund for flights to the USA is reasonable during a time when household incomes have drastically reduced. Never mind the fact that consumer law dictates the refunds are due.
Got my March refunds from Ryanair in bank today
Got my March refunds from Ryanair in bank today
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