JAY’S $1K TO DANCERS IN FAN FRACAS
JAY-Z and Beyoncé have rewarded dancers who saved them from an intruder.
They are giving all 17 of their dance troupe $1,000 a week extra – £765 – for the last two months of their On The Run II tour.
That will add up to just over £104,000 from the couple, who are reckoned by financial magazine Forbes to have a combined fortune in excess of a billion dollars.
But aides and senior members of their road crew say it is a small price to pay for the dancers’ heroics following a gig in Atlanta, Georgia, last month.
Fans at the 71,000-seat Mercedes-Benz stadium were horrified when a man wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts managed to leap on stage at the end of the gig as Jay-Z and his wife began to walk towards their dressing rooms.
Police later confirmed that 26-year-old Anthony
Maxwell has been charged with battery – in some states a more serious charge than assault – against the
48-year-old rap mogul. His singer wife, escaped unscathed.
Jay-Z’s spokesman said the couple, below, were “fine” after the attack which was ended when the entire troupe of dancers, who were still performing their final steps on stage, waded in to protect them.
“If they hadn’t realised what was happening and been so quick off the mark, Jay or Bey could have been seriously hurt, or even worse if that man had had a weapon,” said Joy Stankey,
22, from Chattanooga, who was at the concert with two friends. 47,