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Mystery over when Jay-Z first met Beyonce deepens as resurfaced photos shows rapper, 28, with his future wife when she was 16


The early days of their relationship have come under renewed scrutiny after the  rapper, 55, was hit with a civil lawsuit that claims he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl on September 7, 2000.

Furthermore, another resurfaced image shows Jay-Z at the Prime Time 21 nightclub in North Dallas on January 31, 1998, watching 16-year-old Beyonce in Destiny's Child during their first live performance in the city. Blue Ivy provides the voice for the Kiara character in the Disney film and looked at home on the red carpet as she posed with her parents and also her grandmother, Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles, 70. After producing Aaliyah's album Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number, 27-year-old Kelly married the R&B singer when she was just 15 in a 10-minute ceremony held inside a Chicago hotel room.

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