French newspaper claims President Obama is having affair with Beyonce

• Posted on February 11, 2014
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The French press is all fired up with new rumors that the singer is having an affair with the Barack Obama. The story was picked up by France’s second largest newspaper, le Figaro, and appears to have originated in a radio interview with a French paparazzo named Pascal Rostain.

Heart attack averted. Slamming the sensational claims of a French paparazzo, The Washington Post has no plans to publish a bombshell story about an alleged affair between President Barack Obama and Beyonce Knowles. The outlandish claim emerged in respected French newspaper Le Figaro, were which photographer Pascal Rostain (who is friends with former French First Lady Carla Bruni) promised: “It’ll go out tomorrow [Tuesday, Feb. 11] in the Washington Post . . . I can assure you that the world will talk about it.”

“You know, at this time, the United States, there is something big that is happening. Anyway, it’ll go out tomorrow in the Washington Post—we cannot say that it is the gutter press—[a story about] an alleged affair between President Barack Obama and Beyoncé. I can assure you that the world will be talking about it.”

Rostain added: “We should not forget Marilyn [Monroe] or Monica Lewinsky. You can be the president of the first world power — that doesn’t make you any less a man.”

“It’s definitely not true,” a spokesperson for the Post told Poynter.com in an email.

The President, 51, and wife of Michelle Obama, 50, recently celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary last October, and are parents to daughter Sasha, 12, and Malia, 15. They share a close friendship with Blue Ivy’s parents Beyonce, 32, and husband of nearly six years Jay Z, 44.

-US Magazine