Beyonce and Jay-z had an elevator fight over Rihanna new book claims

According to an explosive new biography of Beyonce, she split with Jay-z for about a year in 2005, the same year he scouted Rihanna
. His PR people spread news he was seeing Rihanna but it was all rumours, planned in order to increase rihanna profile ahead of her forthcoming album, Pon-De-Replay.

It didn't go down well with queen Bey and she split from Jay-z whom she had been dating since 2001. The astonishing claim comes in a new unauthorized biography by best-selling writer J Randy Taraborrelli titled Becoming Beyoncé . Describing the alleged split, he said: 'Beyoncé didn't know what to make of this, and it actually ended up breaking them up for a time. They spent maybe a year apart from each other because Beyoncé just wasn't sure of what to make of the situation with Rihanna.'

But he adds: 'It's safe to say that Rihanna and Beyonce are friends.'

According to Taraborrelli's theory, the split would have been around 2005, when Pon De Replay was released. At that time Jay Z was 35, Beyoncé 24, and Rihanna 17.