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What really happened during Beyonce’s birth?

 

Jay Z and Beyonce are glowing in the way only new parents can. But the power couple has been under fire for what happened when little Blue Ivy was born at Lenox Hill Hospital on NYC’s Upper East Side Saturday. The hospital's executive director, Frank Danza, said in a statement that its staff is “troubled by the misinformation being circulated.” The statement shot down reports that the couple paid more than $1 million to rent a floor of the hospital, and said that the couple was in an executive suite and “billed the standard rate for those accommodations.’’

One new mother said intense security measures made it a struggle to see her twins as guards directed hallway traffic.

A New York state senator, Eric Adams, said that he has asked the hospital to investigate and take “appropriate action to restore faith in the delivery of quality medical service without socioeconomic status.” But Danza said although Beyonce and Jay-Z had their own security, “the hospital has been and still continues to be in control of managing all security at the facility. He added that no security would have prevented a parent from gaining access to the neonatal intensive unit and no family complained to the hospital about it.

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