Madison Square Garden has maintained a roster of gay celebrities

Fat Joe Ho A huge fan of the New York Knicks and their controversial owner Jim Dolan. Rapper celebrate With Dolan in Cleveland when the team clinched its first Finals appearance in decades. When the Knicks organization came under Intensive scrutiny Due to tight security for Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Fat Joe held on to the president.

“Tribute to Mr. Dolan, the greatest team owner in the game.” He told reporters at that time. “They portray Mr. Dolan as evil, almost like Bruce Wayne, like in a Batman movie and this is Gotham City…this guy takes care of us.”

However, within the Dolan organization, some have a different view of Fat Joe. Madison Square Garden’s internal VIP database classifies Joe as “medium risk,” one of about 400 celebrities who received a risk score. Many of these celebrities are on the court at Knicks games: Edie Falco, Mark Ronson, John Turturro, and Tracy Morgan, to name a few. This makes the 400 entries unusual. The vast majority of the 39,539 entries in the so-called “talent” database – which tracks bold names in business, technology, politics, media and sports, along with their guests – were never assigned a risk score.

The database is part of a much larger set of documents published last month by ShinyHunters, a criminal hacker group. 404 media was First to report About hacking and issuing a VIP list. But the extent to which Madison Square Garden rated many of the Knicks’ most obviously loyal fans as risky has not been previously disclosed, nor has the rationale MSG used for doing so.

The database does not provide an explicit explanation for Fat Joe’s classification as “moderate risk.” But as WIRED did Previously documentedMSG Security closely monitors what is said online about Dolan’s management and the park. Some fans were targeted by MSG for criticizing the Pole. MSG security even asked local law enforcement to visit a Colorado teen after one tweet. “They scared the crap 💩 out of a 14-year-old in Colorado,” an MSG security employee texted, reviewed by WIRED.

A source familiar with the matter told WIRED that Garden Security conducted social media sweeps of high-profile people looking for free tickets to the games. If you’re a celebrity and you get a risk score — even if the risk score is low — it means “you did something in the advertising world, the social media world, that caught the attention of the wrong people,” the source continues. The talent database, which contains entries dating back to December 2020 and includes recent updates as early as June of this year, repeatedly refers to “SM concerns.” The source says physical security threats — potential damage to people or property — are documented in a separate database. (The source adds that this type of database is common in arenas.)

The source says park security casts a wide net in its search for anything remotely negative someone posts online. The source points out, “It doesn’t have to be that serious. You can only criticize the team or the place itself.” “You can post that you had a hard time getting in and that you really didn’t like the way you were treated at a gate. That’s really nothing, right?”

According to the source, Fat Joe was tagged due to his relationship with another New York City rap legend, Jadakiss, who was Dolan has criticized in the past. (“He always seems to be happier when the team is bad,” Jadakiss said in 2020.) Jadakiss is rated as a “moderate risk.” Other members of his hip-hop trio, Lox, are also in the database but do not have a risk score.