We can’t believe that it has come to this, but here we go—Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has flat-out denied the rumor that he mailed his own beard shavings to Azealia Banks so that she could fashion it into a protective amulet in an interview with HuffPost.
So, you may be wondering how the hell we got the point where this is an actual story, right? Banks claimed in a series of tweets posted three years ago that she was working with Dorsey on a deal that involved her spreading the word about Twitter’s payment platform Square in exchange for him promoting her mixtape Slay-Z.
Banks then claims that she received beard trimmings from Dorsey for the purpose of creating a protective amulet. “[H]e also sent me his hair in an envelope because i was supposed to make him an amulet for protection,” she wrote. “i have 3 Strands of a billionaire’s hair. i should steal his luck.”
Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton wrote a piece in December where he revisited the rumor and vouched for Banks’ side of the story, claiming he heard from a source that Dorsey “sent a rapper his beard trimmings.” Guess it's just going to come down to who you want to believe.