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NEW YORK -- The web is saturated with people excited about the birth of Jay-Z and Beyonce's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter. But, one new father is demanding an apology from the famous couple.
"Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife delivering two premature girls was tripled by Beyoncé's bodyguards treating Lenox Hill Hospital like an exclusive nightclub," reported Henrick Karoliszyn and Bill Hutchinson of the New York Daily News.
"Coulon griped that he's been repeatedly barred from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit, once for 20 minutes, by the superstar couple's private security."
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The South Jersey radio station SoJo 104.9 reports that Coulon's allegations are likely true considering the musical couple went out of their way to make their stay as comfortable as possible, with little regard to the other patients.
"An entire wing of the maternity ward at Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan was rented out for little Blue Ivy Carter's arrival to the tune of $1.3 million dollars. Hallways were repainted, the delivery room redecorated, and security details put in place by Jay Z."
Coulon claims he couldn't see his new baby girls just because Beyonce and Jay-Z wanted to use the hallway.
"These are children with problems in intensive care and you're just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology," ABC News reported Counlon as saying.
MSN.com's Wonderwall reports that other new parents and relatives were kept out of certain wards and waiting rooms while the couple was at the hospital.
If Coulon was really kept from seeing his news twin girls, it would seem he has the right to want an apology. But in today's society it may be more likely that a year from now Blue Ivy Carter will be voted the cutest celebrity baby and the new father will still be waiting for his apology.
E-mail: jclyde@ksl.com
