Questions into the age distinction between Jay-Z and Beyoncé have resurfaced amid the new civil lawsuit accusing the rapper of heinous crimes. A lawsuit filed on Sunday, December 8, alleges that Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted a 13-year-old lady in 2000 throughout an MTV Video Music Awards after-party. Contemplating that this supposedly occurred greater than twenty years in the past, many need to place this in context with when Jay-Z and Beyoncé began courting, since they received collectively at across the identical time.
What’s the age hole between Jay-Z and Beyoncé?
The age distinction between Jay-Z and Beyoncé is 12 years and three months.
Born on December 4, 1969, Shawn Corey Carter is 55 years outdated, whereas Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, born September 4, 1981, is 43 years outdated.
Partly resulting from this age hole, Beyoncé mentioned in Seventeen’s December/January 2008 challenge (by way of NBC) that she waited to marry Jay-Z till 2008. As to why it took eight years for them to get hitched, Beyoncé had a rule that she wouldn’t get married “earlier than the age of 25” and he or she was not sure that “you’ll love the identical factor whenever you’re 20 as you do at 30.”
When did Jay-Z and Beyoncé get collectively?
Jay-Z and Beyoncé began courting when she was 19, over a 12 months after the pair met one another.
Additionally within the Seventeen interview, Beyoncé mentioned she met Jay-Z when she was 18, which implies this could be a while between September 1999 and August 2000.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on OWN, she explains that they have been buddies for a 12 months and a half earlier than they began courting. She felt that them being buddies as a basis “is so necessary for a relationship” and that “somebody who you simply like is so necessary, and somebody [who] is trustworthy.”
As to the civil lawsuit, the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards befell on September 7, 2000. If the courting timeline between Jay-Z and Beyoncé is appropriate, this could imply that the alleged incident occurred once they have been nonetheless buddies earlier than they started courting.
Jay-Z has called the accusations in the lawsuit “blackmail” and “so heinous in nature” that he dared the lawyer, Tony Buzbee, “to file a felony grievance, not a civil one!!”
