Last week excerpts from J. Randy Taraborrelli's new Beyonce tell-all book 'Becoming Beyonce: The Untold Story' claimed a former publicist for Rihanna admitted planting false rumors about Jay Z and Rihanna in order to promote Rihanna's first single 'Pon de Replay [click here if you missed that].'
Rihanna's camp calls the claims a lie…
Vada Nobles, who wrote and produced ‘Pon de Replay tells Page Six,
“I met this guy once, maybe twice . . . I did not hire Jonathan Hay to promote Rihanna [or] ‘Pon de Replay’ . . . He had nothing to do with Rihanna. Someone I knew referred this guy [to me as a publicist], I said, ‘Let’s see what he can do’ . . . He was using my name and what I was doing to get traction for himself.”Hay also denies cooperating with Taraborrelli telling Page Six,
“I haven’t read the book and I don’t know what it says. I talked to the author for the first time this Sunday . . . All this other gossip is nonsense.”
