Unauthorized beyonce biography

Platinum-selling singer, A-list actress and new Mom, Beyoncé Knowles is a superstar with no limits.
A short unauthorized biography produced from electronic resources researched that includes significant events and career milestones.
Platinum-selling singer, A-list actress, Beyoncé Knowles is a superstar with no limits.

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Becoming Beyoncé, the new unauthorized biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli, was so shrouded in secrecy before today, its release date, that I had to sign a nondisclosure agreement in order to obtain an advance copy. When it arrived in the mail, I was expecting something soap-operatic, something that might cause my brain to explode into confetti, much like the final two minutes of Empire.

Of course, I knew it was unauthorized—Beyoncé nor Jay Z, her parents, Solange, or close friends like Kelly Rowland or Michelle Williams participated—so my baseline was to read it skeptically. (Taraborrelli’s credits include similar deep-dives on Michael Jackson and the Kennedys.) But I was still curious about the grenades it would hurtle into the Twitterverse, the furor it would spark among the Beyhive. Would it claim that her pregnancy had indeed been fake? That she was a dark lord of the Illuminati after all?

Instead, it was kind of a bore. It’s lucky, and perhaps unsurprising, for Beyoncé and her Teflon image—as the book details, she’s been laser-focused on success since she was a little g

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The Truth Behind the Most Outrageous 'Revelations' in the New Beyoncé 'Tell-All'

Since tabloids leaked excerpts of Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story – the unauthorized biography its author is touting as “a backstage pass to the glamorous and cutthroat world of the music business, and an absorbing insider account of the birth of a pop culture legend” – the Internet has been abuzz with the tell-all’s reported revelations.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest rumors – and more importantly, the truth behind them.

RUMOR: Beyoncé and Jay Z once split because of reports he was allegedly cheating on her with Rihanna
Author J. Randy Taraborrelli touches on the rumors that Jay once cheated on Bey with his then-protégé Rihanna. Taraborrelli told ET a publicist started the rumor to “boost her career” but that “it was total fiction.”

Touted as a bombshell, it’s a detail the publicist in question, Jonathan Hay, actually admitted to doing years ago in his book, Publicity Stunt – The Art of Noise.

“I began to fabricate stories of Rihanna and Jay Z, leaking

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10 shocking things revealed in the new Beyoncé biography

The new unauthorized Beyoncé biography is finally out and is already causing a stir. Famed celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli hired a private investigator to track down and speak to various people who have crossed paths with the superstar singer over the years. And while nothing particularly scandalous is revealed, the fact of the matter is we still like to know Every. Little. Thing about Queen Bey – so obviously we’re salivating over even the smallest details!

Bearing in mind this book is completely unauthorized and everyone loves to have their five minutes of fame, we’ve pulled out the ten craziest things you learn from Becoming Beyonce:

1. She almost signed with Prince. Back when Destiny’s Child was still called Girls Tyme (yes, really!), Beyoncé and former DC member LaTavia Roberson almost formed a duo, with LaTavia rapping and Beyoncé singing. Industry engineer Arne Frager states in the book that Prince wanted to sign the girls. “He would call me two weeks later and say, &