One of my favorite conspiracies involving Jay-Z and Beyonce is that they’ve both shaved a few years off their ages. Beyonce gets that a lot, and I always pay special attention to those conspiracies, because I swear, she really has shaved a few years off. But I never really knew what to make of the Jay-Z claims – last year, a DJ said that Jay is closer to 50 years old, as opposed to his “official” age of 45. Why bring this up? I was reading this Radar/Enquirer story about some 21-year-old guy claiming to be Jay-Z’s long-lost son, and it reminded me of how much I dislike the other Jay-Z conspiracies floating around about all of his various children and baby-mamas.

Music superstar Jay Z has been hit with a shocking claim that could potentially rock his marriage to wife Beyonce: According to court documents, he is currently tied up in an ugly legal battle with a man who claims he is the rapper’s son!

The National ENQUIRER has uncovered explosive papers that show that Shawn Corey Carter was sued by 21-year-old Rymir Satterthwaite, an aspiring rapper, in 2014. Satterthwaite told a New Jersey court that his mother, Wanda, had a steamy affair with Jay Z in the 1990s, and that HOVA has done everything in his power to cover it up. According to the magazine, Satterthwaite, through his legal guardian – a paralegal name Lillie Colley – accused Blue Ivy’s dad of lying to the court to avoid taking a paternity test.

In 2010, a judge dismissed a similar case in which Satterthwaite’s mother tried to force Jay Z to submit the paternity test after another man turned out not to be the young man’s father.

However, The ENQUIRER reports that the judge dismissed the case only because he ruled that his court lacked jurisdiction over Jay Z, and not because the court concluded that he was not Satterthwaite’s biological father! The dismissal of the case paved the road for Coley, Satterthwaite’s guardian, to file the 2014 civil lawsuit. In the papers, obtained by The ENQUIRER, Coley alleges that Jay Z and his lawyer, Lisa Fisher, provided “false” and “fraudulent” information to the judge, arguing that he lied to the court when claiming that he lived in New York and not in New Jersey, where he reportedly owns three houses.

[From Radar]

You can see a photo of Satterhwaite here at Radar. There does seem to be a resemblance, especially around the mouth. The Enquirer also spoke to a plastic surgeon who says yeah, Jay-Z and Satterhwaite sort of look alike. Radar also points out that in 2011, Jay-Z paid Shanelle Scott $1 million for keeping his name off of the birth certificate of her then-13-year-old son. Did that really happen? And I remember that there were rumors that he had fathered a child with a French woman too, right?

Anyway, while this is sort of interesting, is it really a “scandal” to say that a then-single twenty-something might have fathered a kid? It’s not like he was “cheating” on Beyonce (that time).

A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Feb 9, 2015 at 10:57am PST

Photos courtesy of Beyonce’s Instagram, Tumblr and Fame/Flynet.