On Friday, Perez Hilton was one of the first to report that Alicia Keys and Swizz beatz had gotten married last weekend. Perez sourced Us Weekly, who only a few hours later ate sh-t and admitted that Alicia and Swizz had not gotten hitched. However, everyone could have just waited a few days – according to mostly British sources, Alicia and Swizz got hitched in France yesterday, Saturday the 31st. Apparently, it happened in Corsica, and people like Queen Latifah and Bono came to the wedding. According to sources, Swizz wore a white tuxedo jacket, a pink shirt and bow tie (bad call with that nose, in my opinion, a bow tie draws the eye up), and Alicia wore white on her large baby bump:

Mother-to-be Alicia Keys has tied the knot with her rap producer boyfriend in France. The singer, who is due to give birth in November, walked down the aisle yesterday in front of a host of celebrity guests, including U2 rocker Bono and Queen Latifah.

Keys reportedly wore a flowing white gown and headband, while her partner, Swizz Beatz, donned a white tuxedo and bow tie for the big day.

The pair arrived at their venue in Corsica several days ago and have been spotted relaxing and sunbathing together ahead of the celebrations. Keys, 29, is a seasoned performer. At the age of seven she started performing classical music on the piano.

Her debut album, Songs In A Minor sold over 12million copies worldwide and earned her five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for Fallin’.

Keys and Beatz, whose real name is Kaseem Dean, have been dating since 2008.
Beatz is currently finalising his divorce from his first wife of four years, Mishonda Tifrere, who is also the mother of one of his two children.

Last month Keys confirmed on Good Morning America that she is pregnant and due in November.

[Fron The Daily Mail]

Well, congratulations to them. I really do hope that they’ll be happy and that their marriage won’t be as drama-filled as the previous year has been, what with Mashonda calling Alicia a homewrecker and Jahna Sebastian (Swizz’s third baby-mama) making a lot of noise. Alicia doesn’t seem to be bothered by all of it – after all, Oprah told her to ignore it, right? So Alicia probably thinks Swizz has changed. Or that he would never cheat on her and dump her and get another girl pregnant, right? And hey, maybe he won’t. Fingers crossed.

Alicia and Swizz on July 24, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Just the sheer epic drama of this Swizz Beatz scandal astounds me. Here is a man who has just impregnated his fourth woman – and his baby-daddy and jump-off drama just keeps growing by the day. So, I know this is complicated, but it’s totally worth it just for the juiciness of the growing scandal. While most legit media sources claim that Alicia Keys is Swizz’s THIRD baby-mama, it’s not true. She’s his fourth, chronologically. His third baby-mama is a girl named Jahna Sebastian, who lives in London and is a model, actress and music producer. Friends of Jahna have begun to tell her story to the press – we covered an open letter sent by a friend of Jahna to I Am London Diva earlier this week. Her story is really interesting, so go here for the recap.

Anyway, don’t start thinking that Jahna is some tragic victim in all of this mess. According to Bossip, Jahna is starting to get really vocal about this mess, and she’s making some pointed attacks. Of course, she doesn’t mention Alicia Keys by name, but it’s in there.

[From Jahna’s site, courtesy of Bossip]

Damn! Okay, so I didn’t know that Alicia Keys had ever been accused of “f-cking for tracks” but Bossip seems to think that Jahna is coughing and pointing at Alicia, so I’ll buy that. Also, Jahna wrote about the sex-for-play offers she’s turned down, unlike SOME bitches:

“Hearing about some of today’s successful artists, who for their career sleep with producers jumping from one to another, break up marriages even when kids are involved and take everything for themselves with no sense of morality, building their image by speculating on sacred things, then get Grammys and worldwide promotion, I think to myself that somehow they get away with it too easy, but what is happening within their soul?”

[From Jahna Sebastian, via Bossip]

Damn! Why didn’t I know this dirt about Alicia before now? Do you think she really built her career on f-cking her way to the top? I have to admit, when I covered the other Jahna story a few days ago, I told my mom about it, and she had an interesting theory that I’m now agreeing with: that Alicia is totally over her head. This thing with Swizz is Alicia’s first serious relationship, it’s her first baby, the first time Alicia ever wanted to get married, and she just got in over her head and now she’s embarrassed or too in love to see what a skeezy f-ck Swizz is. I don’t know, I’m not sure if I can really see Alicia as The Victim in all of this – after all, Alicia allegedly knew about the Jahna drama while she was boning Swizz, while he was still married to Mashonda. Damn, people.

Header: Jahna Sebastian photo, courtesy of Rhymes with Snitch. Additional photo of Alicia and Swizz on July 24, 2010, credit: WENN.

This is kind of a complicated story, and I apologize in advance for not knowing all of the particulars, but I’m going to try my best. Okay – Alicia Keys’ fiancée Swizz Beatz is all kinds of wrong. I knew that he has two kids by two different baby mamas thus far – one by ex-wife Mashonda, and one child by his girlfriend before Mashonda. Swizz promptly left Mashonda for Alicia Keys, and that was where most of the drama seemed to be centered, at least for the past year or so, since Mashonda put up an open letter online calling Alicia out for being a homewrecker. Now Alicia is knocked up and she and Swizz are planning on getting married at some point, although they both look kind of miserable about it.

Okay, so here’s the story: according to Bossip and several British sources, Swizz had a baby girl with a woman living in the UK. This woman – Jahna Sebastian – is Swizz’s third chronological baby-mama, and fourth that we know of, including Alicia. Apparently, Swizz fathered a baby girl with Jahna Sebastian back in 2009 (the baby was conceived in 2008, I think, if my math is right). This was back when he was married to Mashonda, and rumored to be screwing Alicia. Now – why haven’t we heard anything about this third/fourth baby-mama? Because Swizz is a motherf-ckin’ dirtbag, that’s why. In an email sent to the I Am London Diva blog, a source close to Jahna Sebastian confirms that the (still-married-to-Mashonda) Swizz brought Alicia with him for the baby paternity test, he refused to put his name on the birth certificate, refused to acknowledge the baby, and has only paid $1500 a month in child support, beginning when the baby girl was already several months old. Also – Jahna Sebastian is 24 years old, and she’s been making ends meet as a single mom by acting and singing, according to Bossip. Jahna was also held in an immigration detention center in England while she was pregnant, and she wrote letters to Swizz begging him to help her, and he didn’t lift a finger. Here’s the email from I Am London Diva (photo of Jahna and the baby girl below):

Hey London Diva,

I am close friend of Jahna Sebastian, the mother of Swizz Beatz’s daughter. It’s ridiculous how celebrities turn out to be the opposite to what they portray to the public.

Swizz Beatz might be busy getting ready for marriage and new baby with Alicia Keys, but he stopped paying child support to his only daughter with producer/singer Jahna Sebastian who resides in London. Paternity has been established via DNA test taken in August 2009 and Alicia Keys was present. Jahna has maintained independent parental responsibility for two years trying to reach Swizz Beatz personally but received no response. She then sought attorney’s help and filed petition in July 2009. Swizz first time paid child support in September 2009 starting with $1500. Many people in UK and Russia already know about their two-year old daughter and it seems strange that he still would not publicly acknowledge her. Alicia seems to go along with it too. In May Swizz did not attend his daughter’s birthday although he promised to through a Birthday Party.

Two days later he was in London visiting his fiancé who announced her pregnancy on 27th May when the same day he visited his daughter for three hours. During the past year Jahna Sebastian and Swizz Beatz have been in and out of court but Swizz did not provide required information. They are going back into the court again very soon as Swizz is not behaving himself as a responsible father.

24-year old Jahna Sebastian is a respected producer and engineer as well as a singer, who graduated from Russian Academy of Music at the age of only 20 and is known in the community as a very independent young woman.

More details:
Jahna Sebastian met Kasseem Dean, better known as Swizz Beatz, in August 2007 in London, UK, at the Ministry of Sound nightclub, after being introduced by his manager.
At this stage, Jahna Sebastian wasn’t a fan who had been aware of his career.

During Swizz Beatz’s subsequent performance at the venue, he invited Jahna Sebastian onto the stage to perform with him, which she did.

After this initial meeting, a short relationship followed during which Swizz Beatz failed to inform Jahna Sebastian that he was married and gave an impression that was at liberty to pursue such a course of action.

Upon his return to the US, Jahna Sebastian became aware that Swizz Beatz was married and broke off any interest in him, which wasn’t hard as they had no contact at this time. Jahna Sebastian found out she was pregnant with Swizz Beatz’s child about six weeks later and there was no thought of having pregnancy terminated, on principle.

Jahna Sebastian was aware of the implications and possible effect on Swizz Beatz’s marriage, so when six to seven weeks pregnant, she initially privately made him aware of her pregnancy via e-mail, with the intention of seeking advice on how to deal with the situation, but received no response.

When three months pregnant, Jahna Sebastian was detained in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre and subjected to Fast Track political asylum assessment protocol, an exercise eventually found to contain material error in law in the way her asylum application had been processed, a fact that led to her release, two months later.

Swizz Beatz’s name had been referenced as the father of their then unborn child, during interviews with the UK Home Office, at the time when Jahna Sebastian was initially detained.

Jahna Sebastian attempted to make Swizz Beatz aware of her predicament of being pregnant with his child and being detained, by writing him a letter from Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre outlining these facts, without response.

After her eventual release from detention centre and having given birth to their daughter Nicole, who was born in May 2008, Jahna Sebastian sent another letter to Swizz Beatz’s address to inform him of her birth, once again without response.

In spite of ensuing extreme difficulties, not least financial, as she was legally restricted from seeking employment as she fought a legal battle to clear her name, while providing for and raising their daughter, Jahna Sebastian sought no financial or moral support from Swizz Beatz for two years.

In July 2009, Jahna Sebastian instructed a US – based lawyer to contact Swizz Beatz’s legal representative with a view to establishing his parental responsibility. Following this, Swizz Beatz promptly re-established direct communication, which was the first time he had done so since he had left the UK, after their first meeting in 2007.

In August 2009 Swizz Beatz came to the UK to establish paternity via a DNA test which proved that he was the father of his now almost two year old daughter. His girlfriend Alicia Keys was also present.

In the interim since giving birth, Jahna Sebastian had sold her previously owned apartment in the UK to buy a larger property, more appropriate for housing herself and her daughter, all without any assistance, financial or otherwise, from Swizz Beatz.

Swizz Beatz and his fiance; Alicia Keys have both subsequently visited Jahna Sebastian and her daughter in the UK.

In October 2009 Swizz Beatz was ordered to pay temporary child support, while given time to provide financial documents for a conclusive settlement figure and structure of child support, but due to adjournments for various reasons given, the case is still ongoing.
Swizz Beatz has not provided the required signature for his two-year old daughter’s birth certificate, to date.

It is also worth noting that Jahna Sebastian has three separate strands of employment as a freelance music producer, and engineer and an actress in films and commercials.

[From Email to I Am London Diva]

Jesus Christ. What the hell is Alicia thinking? I wouldn’t touch a man like that with a ten-foot pole. Is Alicia hypnotized by the dick? It can’t be that good. Girl needs to pull herself together.

This was the weekend that Alicia Keys and her fiancée Swizz Beatz were supposed to be married, according to random gossip. But it didn’t happen. Instead, they attended Russell Simmons’ Art for Life benefit in the Hamptons, and they looked miserable, right? Well, Alicia didn’t look bad, but Swizz looks like he’s already checked out. Maybe he was just having an off night. Or maybe he’s not trilled with the prospect of setting up house with Alicia and a baby. The NYDN points out that one of Swizz’s kids came to the event with them – and that Alicia was “very maternal” with 10-year-old Prince Nasir. Interesting. Alicia is really trying to make this thing work, and Swizz is just phoning it in? Maybe I’m being too harsh, because Swizz actually gushed about Alicia in an interview last week:

Yes, Alicia Keys and rapper Swizz Beatz are getting married and having a baby – but don’t believe rumors that they’ll tie the knot this weekend.

“The wedding is not this week,” Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean told PEOPLE at the New Music Seminar in New York City Wednesday night.

Shooting down online reports of a lavish ceremony to be held on a yacht, the rapper says, “People are very creative [with gossip], but it’s cool. We have fun with this stuff. [The rumors are that] we’re taking a boat to do this and we’re like, ‘Man, who’s paying for that?’” he jokes.

Swizz Beatz also debunks reports that he’ll manage Keys, who recently parted ways with her longtime manager Jeff Robinson. “I am one trillion percent not managing my fiancée. I’m not a manager,” he says.

But rumors aside, the two musicians are focused on the impending birth of their first child together. “Alicia is definitely one of those great parents-to-be. I’m definitely one of those great parents as well,” says Swizz Beatz, who has two sons, Kasseem Jr., 3, and Prince Nasir, 9, from previous relationships.

So, will a son or daughter be joining the bunch? “We don’t know. We’re just going to let that be magical. Whatever we’re blessed with, boy, girl, twins, that baby is being born to blessed parents,” he said.

They may not know the gender of the baby – or babies – yet, but if Dean’s parenting is any indication, the child will grow up appreciating art like the rest of the family.

“[My sons] pick up things you least expect. You ask my 3-year-old, he’ll tell you [about Takashi] Murakami and [Jean-Michel] Basquiat. My oldest son Nasir is into all types of artists and he likes to write movies,” he says.

He adds: “My youngest son picked up Basquiat just because I have a video playing in my art studio. I did a portrait of him and I have photos. One day he pointed to a tattoo on my arm and goes, ‘Oh yeah, you have Basquiat on your arm,’ and I asked, ‘How do you know that?’ He’s like, ‘Duh! He’s only everywhere.’ ”

As for how Keys is preparing for her new role as mommy, Swizz Beatz says, “She’s super ready. Super calm. Super glowing. Super positive. Super happy.”

[From People]

Eh. Do we want to take bets on Alicia and Swizz’s relationship, or is that too rude? My guess is that Alicia will get Swizz down the aisle, and they’ll be together for the birth and for the first few months with the baby, but it will go downhill very fast.

Alicia & Swizz on July 24, 2010. Credit: WENN.

The last time we checked in on Alicia Keys, she was name-dropping Oprah is a way to deflect some uncomfortable questions about homewrecking her fiancée Swizz Beatz from his wife Mashonda. Now, the latest news: Alicia doesn’t want to have her baby out of wedlock. By my estimation, Alicia Keys is just about six months pregnant, with Swizz’s baby. And Life & Style claims that Alicia and Swizz plan some summer shotgun-flavored nuptials to make everything alright. So Alicia is going to be hauling her largely pregnant self down the aisle very, very soon.

Here comes the…bump! Life & Style can reveal that Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys and record producer Swizz Beatz will tie the knot this summer— before their bundle of joy enters the world.

“They’re planning a celebration in Europe very soon,” an insider reveals to Life & Style.

“It will be a star-studded celebration,” with Jay-Z and Beyoncé among the celebrity guests. In fact, Alicia, who is five months pregnant, has already settled on a dress for the big day.

“She’s decided on a Vera Wang gown and has been eyeing Christian Louboutin shoes,” a second insider tells Life & Style.

What are loved ones saying about the pending union?

“They make a great couple,” a close friend tells Life & Style. “They’re perfect for each other.”

As for the mama and bride-to-be: “I love children and I love family,” she says. Congrats to the happy couple!

[From Life & Style]

Yes, congratulations to them if they actually go through with it, and I hope they’ll be very happy together, I really do. But I do worry about Alicia – I think she fell in love HARD with a man who had a complicated marriage, and now that some time has passed, Alicia is trying to make sure they’re this perfect little family. She’s starting to remind me of LeAnn Rimes a little. Like, Alicia is close to doing a photo op with Swizz and Mashonda’s kids. She seems like she’s forcing it, I guess I’m saying. But Swizz seems into it, so God bless.

Alicia Keys doesn’t want to talk about those pesky rumors that she homewrecked her current fiancée and baby-daddy Swizz Beatz’s marriage to Mashonda Tifrere. The rumors have been swirling for a year, including the “open letter” Mashonda wrote out on some public forum last year, where she called out both Swizz and Alicia. Alicia has never really spoken about it, despite having to do quite a bit of press to promote her album. But no more! Fabulous Magazine (which seems to be the weekend magazine of The News of the World) has a new interview with Alicia, and the reporter had the balls to ask Alicia about the her (alleged) homewrecker status. Alicia’s response? “Oprah Winfrey is the wisest woman I know. She’s like my big, clever, older sister. A while ago she gave me one piece of advice which was to never get drawn into talking about that sort of thing. All I know is that right now my life is really, really good.” Girl, name-dropping Oprah won’t help your ass now. The full piece is here, and here are some of the highlights:

Alicia Keys on loving Swizz: “Oh yes,” she says dreamily. “I am very much in love. Right now love is my main inspiration. Love is the one thing we all want in our lives and I am completely surrounded by it. Love fills you up in a way nothing else can and it’s the most amazing, amazing thing.”

On motherhood: She’s even considering adopting a child from Africa in the future. “I’m so looking forward to being a mum,” she says. “My mum was the best mum to me. She was my best friend as well as my mum. And I want to be the same to my child.”

Fabulous Mag on the homewrecking: “Both Alicia and Swizz have strongly denied that they were together while he was married. In fact, despite regularly being seen at the same events and holidaying together in Hawaii in January, they only admitted they were a couple in May, when they were photographed hand-in-hand following Alicia’s sell-out gig at London’s O2 arena. Their public outing came just weeks after Swizz’s divorce was formalised. Two days later, headlines announced they were planning to marry and expecting a baby. Not exactly music to Mashonda’s ears.”

But Alicia won’t be drawn into discussing her fiancé’s ex. She shakes her head: “Oprah Winfrey is the wisest woman I know. She’s like my big, clever, older sister. A while ago she gave me one piece of advice which was to never get drawn into talking about that sort of thing. All I know is that right now my life is really, really good.”

On her childhood: “Growing up for me was tough. I could have gone any way. I grew up around drugs and gangs and I knew kids who got involved in both. I was the kid who liked music, who liked acting, but I also liked to be popular with the other kids so I didn’t separate myself off. I’d be playing Chopin on the piano for my music lessons and then learning to rap with kids round the block. You had to be streetwise. At the age of seven I could spot a hustler or someone high on drugs.”

On her start in the industry: “I’d gone from being this kid from Harlem to flying round the world first class and working, working, working. It sounds like a dream and in many ways it was, but I got to a point where I couldn’t cope.” She turned from sunny-natured to “this horrible, argumentative, unhappy person. I’d fly into rages and I couldn’t sleep. I was tired but all the time people around me were talking about the next date in the diary, the next song, the next performance. My diary had no space in it for months on end. I wanted to scream. I was suspicious of so many people around me. I knew people were taking advantage of me and I felt as though I had all these fans all around the world but no one close to me who really cared. I had no balance in my life.”

On her grandmother’s death: “I was with her the night she died,” she says. “My grandmother was a very spiritual, open-hearted person. We were so close and in fact I look like her and act like her. Losing her made me realise just how much I’d been losing it.”

Some called it a breakdown, but it was her breakthrough: “No one warns you how hard it is to adjust to fame. Things happen, you find yourself becoming a person you don’t recognise and then you have to get back to who you were. I changed the people around me and changed the way I worked. I’d had this great career but I had no life, I needed to get my life back. I learnt to meditate and I told everyone I needed time off every few weeks in my diary. It’s working,” she smiles. “Life isn’t just about getting what you want and having a great career, it’s having what you need.”

[From Fabulous Magazine]

She does sound happy and at peace… and also a little smug and full of herself? Sure, she has reason to be full of herself – she’s pretty awesome with the whole music career and being beautiful and positive and all of that. But you also have to look at how she’s trying to project herself – like the criticism and gossip and rumors about how she got her man aren’t bothering her in the least. I do think she’s bothered by it, though. Maybe I’m wrong. In any case, I can’t believe Alicia ended up with a dude like Swizz. She could do so much better.

Photos courtesy of NOTW/Fabulous. More photos in the slideshow.

To give credit where it’s due, Bossip starting reporting that Alicia Keys had “a gut full of Swizz” three weeks ago. Photos of Alicia on tour have revealed a growing bump, so “Bump Watch: Homewrecker Edition” was already in full effect (I can’t help it, now whenever I see Alicia, I hear CB’s words “Dumb homewrecker” next to her face). In any case, Alicia stepped out last night looking severely knocked up, and another round of rumors was going to commence until a “friend” confirmed the news to People and Life & Style - Alicia and boyfriend Swizz Beatz are expecting their first child together, and they’re engaged.

A wedding and a baby are on the way for Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz.

The musicians “are expecting a baby and are engaged to be married in a private ceremony later this year,” reps for the couple confirm to PEOPLE.

The announcement comes after the two, together since fall 2008, attended Thursday night’s Black Ball in London, which benefits Keys’s Keep a Child Alive charity.

“They’re very happy,” says a friend of the couple.

Rapper Swizz Beatz (real name: Kasseem Dean), 31, has produced music for Keys, 29, and worked with artists including Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani.

It will be the first marriage for Grammy-winner Keys – and their first child together. Swizz Beatz is father to Kasseem Jr., 3, and son Prince Nasir, 9, both from previous relationships.

[From People]

Yeah, I know people have money riding on when Swizz is going to leave her like he left his other baby-mamas, but I actually think he’s going to stick around for Alicia. She’s worth more than him, right? And she’s a bigger star. She’ll put him on the map. He’s sticking with it. So congratulations to the happy couple. I think Alicia will be a great mom, I really do.

Alicia and Swizz on May 22, 26 & 27, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Bossip is reporting the totally unconfirmed rumor that Alicia Keys is pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby. Her boyfriend is Swizz Beatz, who was famously married when he allegedly began romancing Alicia, only to have his estranged wife Mashonda publicly call Alicia out (archived story here). Alicia and Swizz seem for real – they’ve been together for a year (at least) and they made their first public red carpet appearance in March. The whole pregnancy rumor has begun in earnest because of these photos – in which Alicia does look sort of bump-y, and her boobs look quite a bit fuller. But it could just be some burritos? According to Hip Hop Weekly (via Hello Beautiful), sources are claiming Alicia has got “a gut full of Swizz” (in Bossip’s words).

HHW has received some shocking news! Sources have come forward alleging that R&B singer Alicia Keys is pregnant by her boyfriend, hip hop producer Swizz Beatz.

The pair, who have been an item since 2008 when Swizz and his estranged wife, singer Mashonda, announced that they were splitting up, and are also rumored to be engaged.

While HHW cannot confirm the pregnancy at this time, the source is someone close to the couple.

[From Hip Hop Weekly via Hello Beautiful]

If it’s true, congratulations to them. The optimist in me wishes them well and hopes that Alicia has found someone who will stick be her and be a good father. The cynic in me says “He’ll dump you when the next one comes around.” Or, as CB said, “Dumb homewrecker.”

Alicia looking bumpy, performing in Holland on May 8, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Last year, Alicia Keys was embroiled in a relatively sleazy scandal. The scandal didn’t become epic, and splashed all over the tabloids, but it still dinged her reputation significantly, in my opinion. The basic gist? Alicia Keys is a homewrecker. Not only did she “steal” another woman’s husband (Swizz Beatz), but his wife Mashonda called her out on it publicly. There’s a lot of backstory, so if you want to read the whole sordid tale, go to this archived story from last September. The basics are: Swizz Beatz and Mashonda were married, they had an infant son, and then at some point circa the summer of 2008, Swizz and Alicia met and fell in love. Some sources claimed that Swizz claimed he and his wife were separated, and that when Alicia found out, she dumped him. But then some other stuff happened and Alicia and Swizz were back on throughout 2009, and then in September, Mashonda called her out publicly.

Anyway, in all that time, Alicia and Swizz have never walked a red carpet together, at least according to Michael K at Dlisted. Although I think that even if they’ve never posed for pictures together, they have sat with each other during various events before, because I seem to remember seeing them together at some event or another. But whatever. Enjoy the pretty photos of Alicia and Swizz.

Work it, girl. Actually, she’s thinking, “Where the f-ck did he go? Did he go off with that woman? I’m going to kill him.”

Alicia and Swizz at the Gotham Magazine Awards on March 15, 2010. Credit: WENN & Getty.

I remember hearing that Alicia Keys, 28, was dating a guy named Swizz Beatz and that he was married. Beatz , 31,filed for divorce last summer, and claimed at the time that his divorce had nothing to do with his relationship with Keys. The National Enquirer reported about a year ago, in October, 2008, that Alicia had broken up with Beatz, a music producer, after she learned that he was still with his wife when they first started dating. Apparently Beatz swore up and down to Alicia that he was separated when they hooked up but he was still living with his wife and infant son at the time. If Keys did break up with Beatz that didn’t last long, because he told The NY Daily News in May that he was dating Keys and that things were going well. The two have since been photographed out together several times.

Meanwhile Beatz’s soon to be ex-wife wants us to know that it’s not true that her marriage was already over when Alicia Keys stepped in and stole her man. Singer Mashonda has penned one of the best “wife to the other woman” rebuttals that I’ve ever read. She says clearly that Alicia broke up her marriage, which was going well as far as she was concerned, but that she has accepted it and had moved on. I’m so impressed by how well written and convincing this woman’s story is. Mashonda is responding to some tweets Alicia made in shorthand about love. It’s hard to tell what the hell Alicia is talking about, but she tweets stuff like “Having a heated debate n the studio. Question is…N love is it better to go 4 the choice that is “SMART” or the choice that has “SPARK”??…. love is knowin all abt some1, & still wantin 2 b wit thm more thn any other persn. love is trustin the enuf 2 tell thm everythin abt urself.”

After having a great evening with my son and enjoying some fun twit chat, I decided to sign off and get some work done. However, a few hours later I was advised that I should check @aliciakeys twit page. I’ve never reached out to her on twitter before. I feel our issues are a lot more serious than a website conversation. Not to mention that I’ve reached out to her many times in the beginning of this whole thing, as any wife would do. Unfortunately, I never succeeded in getting a response. The 1st time I meet AK, my husband introduced us to each other at an event. ( I have no choice but to call him my husband, until he is not anymore) In the messages that I sent to her (AK), I made it very clear that on the contrary of what she might be hearing, I am still married to my husband, living with him and just had a child. Its been two years and I still have not received a response. What I do receive, is constant displays of selfishness and disconcern to me and my son.

I was a fan of AK’s last album, we were both signed to J Records and I always checked up on her projects. I sang her songs and admired her for creating Superwoman and Karma, I would never deny her, her talent. I believed in her until I found out she was possibly sleeping with my husband. The affair was denied by both, until it was finally admitted months later.

Already I can hear some of you saying ” why are u blaming her, You cant make someone leave their wife, You cant break something thats broken”. Well, my marriage was not broken, as far as I knew we were celebrating our sons birth and getting ready to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary . Call it blind love, whatever. I call it being a devoted wife.. As far as me blaming her and not blaming him, thats false. Me and my husband have worked out our differences. We are in a good place as people and as parents. I accept his choices and I am comfortable enough with myself to move on. I am so very blessed in many ways.

My concern with AK is no longer the fact that she assisted in destroying a family but that she has the audacity to make these selfish comments about love and wanting to be with someone, even after knowing their situation. How is this the same Superwoman that I sang out loud with in my truck? I ask myself sometimes.

If you are reading this Alicia, let me start by saying, you know what you did. You know the role you played and you know how you contributed to the ending of my marriage. You know that I asked you to step back and let me handle my family issues. Issues that you helped to create.

Im not saying everything was perfect all the time but no relationship is perfect. We made a vow to God and I believe you should have respected that, as a woman. I know you owe me or my son nothing but I just wish you would’ve handled things more carefully. I’m not judging you, I put you and the whole situation in the hands of God, the Higher Power. Just know that as a woman, I expected so much more from you. I never had intentions on reaching out to you this way but after reading your twits tonight, and the constant disregard, you left me no choice. I feel that after 1 and a half years of you hiding this affair and acting like it doesnt exist, that now is the time to confront it, since you talk so openly about it now

This is not a publicity stunt, I dont have a record coming out. I just need to close this chapter in my life and that means confronting our issues. There is a small child involved. His dad loves him to death and he wants to spend more time with him but hes afraid because he knows we don’t have a relationship. This is my main concern. My son NEEDS his dad and I NEED to be comfortable with you. For him!

I know many will see my point and many will not be able to look into what’s real because they only want to see Alicia Keys the celebrity, not the human. This is not for the “people”, this is for you. Like I said I was left no choice but to reach out to you this way. By now, Im sure you want to find a balance in this as well.

I read your tweets tonight and I felt they were very insensitive. You have no idea how much pain I was caused because of this affair. Its baffling to me that you don’t understand what I might have gone through with this situation. I dont consider myself a victim anymore, Ive learned alot from this! I just ask you to try and be a bit more realistic and delicate to the situation, at least until my divorce is final. I felt me attending the party would have been a starting point for us, since you shook my hand after I offered it, but I suppose I was wrong.

If its so, that you and my husband are meant to be together, then God bless you both and I hope you never have to deal with what I did. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. If you two being together forever is the case, its more of a reason for us to get along, because I’m not going anywhere. Theres a child to be raised.

To answer your tweet, choose smart over spark. Sparks burn everyone, be smart! Its simple actually, just think of the shoe being on the other foot.

Stay blessed and lets work this thing out with respect and dignity.

[From Mashonda's Twitlonger, via Gossip Rocks]

I guess I’m team Mashonda on this one. Mashonda is giving Alicia way too much credit for those barely readable tweets, though. It’s like Alicia is on a fourth grade level, tweeting about love in a grammatically-challenged text-speak version of one of those cute naked people cartoons. Then Mashonda responds on a college level that Alicia is a fool and a homewrecker. This woman is so smart and well spoken. She obviously had to deal with a lot of pain and heartbreak, but she sounds like she has the sense to work through it. She’s also convinced me that Alicia Keys knew what she was doing when she started dating a married man. Even if Alicia truly believed the guy was separated, I’ll doubt she’ll be as able to convince us that she’s innocent. She’ll have to hire a copywriter and use more than 140 characters to do that.

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are shown out in St. Tropez on 8/26/09. Credit: Fame Pictures. Mashonda is shown below on 9/10/09