{"id":372368,"date":"2026-10-13T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372368\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:12:11","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-heights-store-speaks-out-after-public-dispute-with-kelly-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372368\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Heights Store Speaks Out After Public Dispute With Kelly Clarkson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The owners of a Brooklyn Heights shop are speaking out after a public dispute with superstar Kelly Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The singer and talk show host accused an employee at Art of Play of suggesting she find something more affordable <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/kelly-clarkson-calls-brooklyn-store-owner-a-liar-in-viral-feud-over-15k-singing-bird\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when she asked about an item worth $15,000<\/a>. But the store says that didn&#8217;t happen, sharing in a statement that the item Clarkson was asking about is a one-of-a-kind singing bird automaton that&#8217;s permanently attached to the wall and not for sale.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Adam Rubin, one of the owners, said the backlash now has them fearing for their safety.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;People are showing up and screaming at us,&#8221; said Rubin. &#8220;The neighbors called the cops. The neighbors are getting doxxed. We&#8217;re getting hundreds of text messages, phone calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The owners said what happened was a complete misunderstanding that could have been handled with a simple conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of a Brooklyn Heights shop are speaking out after a public dispute with superstar Kelly Clarkson.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-372368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}