Brandon Foley 
Jay-Z poses with wife Beyonce/Photo credit: iam.beyonce.com
Beyonce and Jay-Z are back in the news, embroiled in more legal drama after a man rammed his car into the power couple’s East Hampton home this month.
On Wednesday, July 22, Keith Jonathan Webster was charged with criminal mischief and misdemeanor criminal trespass after a security guard alleged that Keith had driven his vehicle into a closed gate on Bey and Jay’s property. The security guard claimed to have captured the incident on surveillance cameras, according to ABC.
“I watched the car strike the gate and continued to drive on the property,” he claimed to the news outlet. “I called for my partner … and I ran out the security office door, up the driveway and down to where the car had come to a stop.”
In the criminal complaint, Keith is alleged to have caused $1,500 worth of property damage. Keith has pleaded not guilty, and is due in court on July 29.
Before this incident, a lawsuit against Beyoncé’s label and management company, Parkwood Entertainment, was recently tossed out.
The case, which was filed in July 2025, involved Hirose Enterprises, LLC, according to a BBC article. Hirose Enterprises LLC, a company based in Florida, claimed the track Beyoncé sampled for her song Alien Superstar on her 2022 Renaissance album used their song improperly.
The song in question was John Holiday’s 1998 song Moonraker. Hirose Enterprises, owned by Shuji Hirose, the co-founder of the defunct indie label Soundmen on Wax, held the copyright for and demanded to be part of the licensing process.
They sued over the usage of the lyrics “Please do not be alarmed, remain calm/Do not attempt to leave the dancefloor/The DJ booth is conducting a troubleshoot of the entire system.”
Parkwood had contacted and cleared it with the original artist, listing him in the album’s credits, paying him $10,000 and 0.5% of the royalties. While there’s no paperwork on Moonraker’s transfer to them, they had been given Holiday’s blessing and secured the usage with the owner of the track.
They didn’t even have to clear that bar as Judge Mark C. Scarsi tossed out the lawsuit for an even simpler reason: the company suing had been formed only after the case was created. Because Hirose Entertainment was officially founded a week after the complaint was filed. Due to this, they were found unable to continue.
Scarsi wrote “Please do not be alarmed, remain calm: like the DJ booth referenced in the works at issue this district judge must conduct a troubleshoot of the entire system-that is, a jurisdictional inquiry, before reaching any of the parties’ merits arguments,” clearly quoting the song.
He concluded that because the plaintiff didn’t yet “exist” it couldn’t have held a stake in the litigation. The case against Parkwood, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell was dismissed. Hirose Entertainment does have the option to appeal the decision for another shot at winning the lawsuit.
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