Wednesday 24 December 2014

Beyonce's father 'was selling his daughter's memorabilia for $20 to $200 on his front yard'

Making ends meet: Mathew Knowles held a yard sale over the weekend to sell his oldest daughter Beyonce's memorabilia, according to TMZ; here he is pictured with the Crazy In Love singer in 2007

He sold several posters, DVDs, tour T-shirts and various other mementos from Beyonce's early singing years from when she was in the successful band Destiny's Child as well as items from her first few years as a solo artist.

As of Monday, Mathew was still selling bins of old things including 'a giant Beyonce poster for $200, old tour books for $20 and various pieces of House of Dereon clothing,' the site claimed.
House Of Dereon is a clothing brand founded by Beyonce and her mother Tina Knowles, who was married to Mathew for 31 years before divorcing.
Also in the bargain bins were his other famous daughter Solange's album, which sold for much less at $1.96.
The same year Tina filed for divorce in 2010, several reports about Mathew's affairs with actress Alexsandra Wright had surfaced.
Wright claimed that the former manager was the father of her son Nixon, who is now five-years-old. 
Mathew had admitted to having an affair with Wright and ultimately the paternity test came back positive, making Nixon Beyonce's half-brother.
And in September of this year, Mathew was involved in another paternity scandal, this time with former lingerie model TaQoya Branscomb, who revealed that Mathew was the father of her daughter Koi with a 99.998 percent test result.
In 2011, Mathew was allegedly fired as Beyonce's manager.
He had successfully launched her career from an early age and was earning close to $3.3m when he was charge of his daughter's megawatt career.
But court papers from 2013 revealed that he lost the majority of his savings.
According to child support records seen by Radar, Mathew owes more than $44,000 just for Nixon alone, which has caused the State of California to prepare file contempt charges.
In another desperate attempt to gain funds, Mathew was in talks with Sony about a possible Destiny's Child biopic.
Sony's massive cyber hack released hundreds of private documents which included e-mail conversations that showed Mathew had tried to reach out to the company about the rights to a possible movie about the hit girl group.
A report from TMZ claimed that he 'reached out to Sony in December 2013 offering the studio first dibs on a movie and executives seemed into the idea. 
'Lifetime is reportedly planning a Destiny's Child movie next year, but unclear if Mathew's behind that one.' 

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