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So by now you’ve heard that Beyonce and Jay-Z are the proud parents of the world’s most famous baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter, who was born Saturday night. (Move over, Harper Seven!) The beauty of it all is that if you actually care, you can spend hours trolling the interwebs for every last detail. If you don’t care, you can check out. Unless, of course, you’re Neil Coulon, a Brooklyn dad who was barred from seeing his newborn twins in the NICU at Lenox Hill Hospital because of Beyonce and Jazy-Z’s super-tight private security.
“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU and it happened once on Friday — just because they wanted to use the hallway,” Coulon, 38, told the NY Daily News.
Coulon, whose wife delivered premature twin girls, said bodyguards wearing headsets treated the hospital like an exclusive nightclub. At one point, he claims they cleared the entire sixth-floor waiting room, which meant his relatives were essentially kicked out.
“They should have been more strategic about it,” he said. “These are children with problems in intensive care and you’re just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology.”
Beyonce and Jay-Z reportedly paid a whopping $1.3 million to take over an entire wing of the New York City hospital in order to ensure privacy. The wing is located on the sixth floor – the same level as the hospital’s NICU unit.
“This is the NICU. Nobody cares if you’re a celebrity. Nobody is star-gazing. They just want to see their children,” Coulon said of his experience. “To have that circus roll into town and ruin our parade was unpleasant.”
I must admit, I feel badly for the guy (and his wife, too, obviously). I could not even imagine delivering a baby – never mind two! – and dealing with all of the commotion. Really, there’s enough craziness going on post-delivery even at the best of times. To have headset-clad security guards patrolling the hallways and turning people away is one thing; to have them preventing a father from seeing his newborns is a whole story altogether. I do not blame Coulon one bit for being pissed off. Wouldn’t you be, too?
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Shame on Beyonce and Jay z! I could careless about them giving birth to a baby but to shut everyone else out from seeing there kids is ridiculous! What kind of hospital would allow this. Just because your famous and have money dosent mean your kid is more special than all those other parents just because they are not famous
124 days ago
[...] hard giving you all the details from the meaning of Blue Ivy‘s name to the disputes from parents who were snubbed at Lenox Hill to the State Heath Department‘s findings, we’re frankly [...]
124 days ago
[...] of newborn Blue Ivy Carter, various media outlets reported that parents, including one father with twins in the NICU, couldn’t get to their kids courtesy of Bey’s private security. Lenox Hill Hospital [...]
125 days ago
[...] Lenox Hill Hospital. After media reports surfaced that Beyonce‘s practically presidential security prevented multiple families from seeing their children — and don’t forget the father [...]
125 days ago
[...] and Jay-Z picked up $1.5 million in baby gifts including a solid gold rocking horse or that her high-maintenance parents obstructed other parents from seeing their newborns. This one, though, is by far the craziest. …And possibly the [...]
126 days ago
[...] the Mommyish readership finds Lenox Hill Hospital to be fundamentally in the wrong for kowtowing to Beyonce’s private security team. There may be breeches in security for allowing her team to cover up security cameras intended to [...]
126 days ago
[...] father was prevented from seeing his twins in the NICU and other family members were reportedly barred from seeing their newborn babies following the [...]
One lady had her baby in the elevator bc of them, I would sue the crap outta that hospital, and at this point I don’t even like B and Jay no more I’m a mom with kids and that was ridiculous. If u need that much privacy should of had the baby at home.
127 days ago
[...] maybe Beyonce and Jay-Z were actually onto something when they brought their own security team to the hospital. Just kidding (sort of). But, really, this is horrifying. According to reports, Neha Narayan, 24, [...]
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[...] long-awaited arrival has come. Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed a baby girl into their family on Saturday, January 7th. Details are still being debated, like the name of this [...]
I wish I were a celebrity so I could act like a total assclown.
I’m just an ordinary person though and always will be. Poo.
apparently the rumours are untrue. here’s a statement from the hospital: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lenox-hill-hospital-clears-the-record-on-beyonce-birth-136968058.html?TC=CrowdFactory_Twitter&cf_from=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lenox-hill-hospital-clears-the-record-on-beyonce-birth-136968058.html&cf_synd_id=K1GE8TD
Mmmmm… the whole statement has lawyer written all over it. I don’t believe it really. I have NO problem believing that the Carters used their money and fame to make sure they got priority over everything.
I still hope that dad sues and wins.
Interesting, Bolaji. Thanks for pointing out. It’s this guy’s word against the hospital’s – will be interesting to see what transpires. Such drama!
It just goes to show how out of touch with reality these people are! I swear! What kind of drugs do they put in these people’s water anyway? Can you get anymore narcissistic than that? Man…if my children were in ICU and I couldn’t get to them because the hospital “sold out” on it’s integrity to these selfish jerks, I would sue for way more than the 1.3 million. Also, I really doubt anyone is going to be excited for them about the birth of their baby. This day should have been a wonderfully memorable day for them. But now it’s just a day of shame!
128 days ago
[...] was fake? Reports may have surfaced that Beyonce delivered newborn Blue Ivy via c-section on Saturday night but a statement by the singer herself and her mogul husband Jay-Z say otherwise. The couple [...]
128 days ago
[...] was born in Lenox Hill Hospital on Saturday night and that such a commotion kept parents out of the NICU, there exists videos, photos, and multiple theories suggesting that Beyonce was not carrying her. [...]
Not only do I not blame him, I would be suing the HELL out of those two self-entitled morons AND the hospital! SHAME on the hospital for bowing to their money and preventing any parent and relative from visiting their bundles of joy! This father’s twins were just as important and deserving of privacy and joy as that baby with the stupid name.
if they wanted such a private birthing area….maybe they should have hired the labor and delivery staff to come to there own house instead of a public hospital
I totally agree with you snowgurl .. they should have had a private birth at HOME .. pay the staff and be done with it … some people just HAVE to show authority … unfortunately money talks .. however .. if I were the father that was denied visitation with his little miracles .. I would have my attorney on them quicker than a flash of lightening … I sure hope he doesn’t let them get away with their stupidity …
very uncool. my little girl was in the nicu for a week and i would have been insanely furious if this happened to me. on another note, i never felt like she even looked pregnant. and why teh heck did she get to have an elective c-section? i guess im assuming it was elective…but if it was, was it just because shes famous? not right.
shame on you beyonce and jay-z!!! None of the parents of children at that nicu cared who you were. My son was in the nicu for eight weeks and if I had been stopped from seeing him you better believe you’d have a lawsuit on your hands! It was their right to be with their children and you stopped them from doing that? Would you have allowed someone to stop you from seeing Blue? Oh of course not because you think you are better. What a discgrace!
128 days ago
[...] in pissing off several other new parents along the way. Their over-the-top security measures effectively shut down the entire floor of their private birthing suite, even kicking parents out of the hospital’s Neonatal [...]
If I remember correctly, security was pretty tight at our plain-old L&D department – no one was getting in without a lot of ID. Did they really think that others on the floor would be more interested in THEM than in their own newborns?! I am not a celebrity (ha!) so can’t really comprehend what counts as “reality” in their world. While I am sure that their day-to-day existence is quite different than mine, I am equally sure that some experiences transcend fame or economics – chiefly among them, the beginning of life.
unacceptable. with their financial resources they could have employed private physicians and given birth in a private residence. how dare they taint others’ birthing experiences this way. shame on the hospital for permitting this to happen. i hope they made a sizeable donation to the hospital and I jope tha they had the class to offer those famiies something for their inconvenience – a collefe fund would be a good place to start.
Oh, but then how would they have maintained their “street cred”. Please, Beyonce and Jay-Z don’t want privacy, they want attention. It’s the way that these two stay relevant and in the limelight…it’s a tactic as old as the hills and it’s pathetic that this hospital was willing to play along.
128 days ago
[...] also being reported that security at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital was so tight that the father of another newborn was unable to see his family. Which is unbelievably tasteless and narcissistic, and hopefully not [...]
not cool! the only people that should have been prevented from getting into the hospital is the paparazzi. beyonce and jay z are way out of line. they used a PUBLIC facility as if it was their own private establishment–and the NICU to boot, are you kidding me?! shame on the hospital for agreeing to be bullied by celebrity. and shame on beyonce for having the audacity to suggest that the birth of her child is more important than someone else’s. i’m over it.
I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BUT COME ON KNOW WHY WOULD BEYONCE HAVE A CHILD THINK ITS OK GET A NOTHER ONE IM MEAN SHOULN’T SHE BE ALREADY TIRED WITH THE SEX
it’s not only a distasteful display of narcicism on beyonce and jay’s part, it is unthinkable that a hospital could be bought out. This goes beyond privacy. This is plain old greed.
I just don’t get the amount of privacy celebrities “require” – you’re in the maternity wing of a hospital, the only other people who are going to be there are other people giving birth and their families. Just as you want your nearest and dearest there, so do the, and I’d hazard a guess that in the midst of welcoming a little on into the world, or visiting your preemies in intensive care, nobody cares a jot who you are. Some people need to learn that they’re not more important than the world around them.