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Hip hangout proves too hot for Jay-Z

A hip New York hotel said it is investigating how surveillance video of Beyonce's sister Solange Knowles attacking brother-in-law Jay-Z in an elevator wound up on an internet gossip site.

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The fuzzy, silent black-and-white video of the hotel confrontation.

A hip New York hotel said it is investigating how surveillance video of Beyonce's sister Solange Knowles attacking brother-in-law Jay-Z in an elevator wound up on an internet gossip site.

The fuzzy, silent black-and-white video posted on TMZ.com shows Solange kicking and hitting music mogul and hip-hop star Jay-Z at the Standard hotel, site of an after-party following the glamorous Met Gala in New York on May 5.

A bodyguard is seen trying to restrain the clearly agitated 27-year-old Solange, whose 32-year-old megastar sister stood largely in the corner alongside her husband of six years.

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The trio can be recognised by the outfits they wore earlier that night at the Metropolitan Museum fashion gala - Solange in a pink Phillip Lim dress, Beyonce in a sheer black Givenchy Haute Couture gown and Jay-Z in a white tuxedo jacket.

The Standard hotel in lower Manhattan expressed outrage that the 31/2-minute video had gone viral, and it threatened disciplinary and legal action when it found out who made it public.

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"We are shocked and disappointed that there was a clear breach of our security system and the confidentiality that we count on providing our guests," a spokesman said.

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