Adam Rubin
Role at the time: Co-owner of Art of Play, in an interview with New York magazine's Curbed
Challenged the characterization
Response to this claim
An Art of Play employee looked at Kelly Clarkson as if she could not afford the item she wanted and offered to find her something comparable.
“nothing happened in this shop to justify her scolding our shopkeeper on the way out”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Security footage released from Kelly Clarkson's alleged incident that sparked store feud · The National News DeskFull article
The National News Desk report describing the silent security footage of Clarkson's visit released by the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, and quoting Art of Play co-owner Adam Rubin's interview with New York magazine's Curbed.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case centers on how Art of Play's staff treated Clarkson. Rubin says nothing happened in the shop to justify her scolding of the shopkeeper, disputing her description of the visit, so we labeled it a challenge to her characterization.