Beyonce’s camp has hit back at a claim her stylist Marni Senofonte had not compensated fashion and art designer Nusi Quero for his work on the artist’s album Renaissance.
‘It is deeply troubling that designer Nusi Quero has posted damaging statements about Marni Senofonte regarding non-payments for work completed,’ a rep for the musical artist told Page Six.
‘In fact, he was paid for his work, and there is proof of all payments made.’
The rep continued: ‘We have been in communication with his team and there were three payments made to him. The first payment was made on May 9, 2022.’
Quero posted an open letter addressed for Senofonte on Instagram this week, according to the outlet, saying he was never compensated for his efforts for Renaissance.
‘I supposed this is the final venue I can utilize before legal means to settle your outstanding balances, that you’ve owed me and my collaborator for about 3 months.’
Quero said Senofonte ‘paid a 50 percent deposit to me for one of the three jobs, (not the album cover), nothing more, and it took over a month to get it to us.’
He said that an administrative issue with his bank was swiftly fixed; a rep for Beyonce said that Quero’s bank did have issues, but that his account of the story was false.
Said the rep: ‘The second payment, a fifty percent down payment on the agreed cost, was made via wire on July 8, 2022. The third and final payment was returned when he changed his account number. It was returned as an invalid account number based on an error on his part.’
‘After persistent and exhausting communication to get the correct information on his account and two unsuccessful wire transfer attempts, a physical check was mailed to him for final payment on September 29, 2022.’
According to the outlet, Quero in a post on Wednesday took inventory of four separate tasks he did for the Grammy-winning artist, including Renaissance, album cover piece, a varying showcase and ‘a red custom 3D printed top I miraculously procured last miniature for a video shoot.’
He noted, ‘This industry is mega f***y to the core and in its crevices,’ and that he was ‘sick of independent designers like me being treated like this.
‘We are so often the last to get paid, the last to suck on the wet dirt after everyone dries up the rivers that flow from our springs,’ he said. ‘We are the source. The work I do is next level. It is so fiscally undervalued for the placements it’s had it’s astounding.’
He also used a lyric from Beyonce’s PURE/HONEY stating, ‘Don’t be funny with my money, honey.’
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