Insider claims the split should have happened “before Blue Ivy was born”

Aug 8, 2014 14:28 GMT  ·  By
Beyonce and Jay Z continue to pose as a happily married couple on social media
   Beyonce and Jay Z continue to pose as a happily married couple on social media

For months we’ve been hearing rumors about Beyonce and Jay Z having such serious problems at home that they were seriously considering getting a divorce, and for months neither star actually offered a shred of a hint that there was any truth to them. People magazine says that, regardless of this, there is truth to them.

First it was Page Six, then the New York Daily News running extensive insider accounts of how the marriage wasn’t working anymore and the only thing stopping them from filing the papers was the fact that they wanted to wrap their joint On the Run Tour.

The tour ended last night and, today, in its print issue, People magazine (story via CB) is claiming that the split is a done deal. Stop the presses!

“Word around the industry has been that things are rocky at home. If they split, no one would be surprised,” a music source who has worked with Jay Z reveals, under the condition of anonymity.

Another chimes in to say that they would have split a long time ago if their daughter hadn’t been born and that, somehow, Blue Ivy patched things up for a while. “There has been tension between them for a while. To be honest, I thought they were going to get divorced before Blue Ivy was born. [Blue Ivy] is the centerpiece of their marriage,” says the spy.

Yet another insider confirms an older report that Beyonce and Jay Z do indeed lead separate lives right now and that it has been going on for months. The only times when they were together recently was on stage, when they posed as the happy family they stopped being a while back.

In the end, the decision to stick together for a while longer was business-related. “Their day-to-day lives revolve around business. The constant pressure has taken much of the romance out of their relationship,” says the insider.

Again, these rumors have been around for months, and in a less serious tone, for years. After all, with such a high profile couple as this one, such rumors come with the territory. What makes this report so out of the ordinary is the fact that it comes from People, which (usually) only runs stories like this if they’re sanctioned in some way or another by the representatives of the stars they’re about.

In other words, if it’s in People, it probably means it’s half-true and that a divorce announcement is coming in a matter of months, if not weeks.

Beyonce and Jay Z started in 1999 or 2000, depending on which account you believe. They went public with the romance in 2003 and were married in secret in 2008. Blue Ivy was born on January 7, 2012.

The reason most cited in the tabloids for the rumored, upcoming split is that of infidelity on the part of both: Beyonce has been accused of sleeping with her longtime bodyguard, while Jay reportedly bedded every young woman that came his way, regardless of whether Beyonce knew about her or not.