Beyonce Birth Controversy: Lenox Hill Hospital Says ‘Not True’

It’s been two days since Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed little Blue Ivy Carter into the world, but the rumor mill on the baby’s birth keeps on spinning.

Frank Danza, a spokesman for Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, wants to clarify a few of those rumors: namely, that the hip hop power couple shelled out $1.3 million to book a whole floor in the maternity ward, and inconvenienced other patients with an overzealous team of Beyonce-protecting bodyguards.

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“Lenox Hill Hospital and its staff were delighted to welcome the Carter family for the birth of their firstborn on Saturday evening, but we are troubled by the misinformation being circulated in some news media reports,” Danza said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday afternoon. “The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations.  Our executive suites are available for any patient, including the food service and amenities provided to the Carter family.”

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Danza also addressed reports that the brood’s bodyguards inconvenienced other patients — preventing one man from seeing his newborn twins, per a New York Daily News story in which the father, Neil Coulon, claimed he’d been banned from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit by the couple’s private security.

“The family does have its own security detail on site. However, the hospital has been and continues to be in control of managing all security at the facility,” Danza said, clarifying the report. “We have made every effort to ensure minimal disruption to other families experiencing the births of their own children over the past three days. No security plan that we or the Carter’s security team put in place would have prevented or delayed families from gaining access to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and to date, no families have complained to the hospital about being denied access to the NICU.”