Madison Square Garden allegedly maintained an internal database of celebrities and VIPs that included notes on sexuality, racial identity and “risk” levels.
According to a Wired report, the New York City venue’s “talent” database contained 39,539 entries, spanning musicians, actors, politicians, athletes, business figures and other high‑profile guests. The documents were reportedly leaked last month by the hacker collective ShinyHunters, and Wired reports that 93 people in the database were marked as “LGBTQIA+”, including Phoebe Bridgers, Ricky Martin and Geese guitarist Emily Green. The report also claims that some celebrities’ race and gender identity were noted in the database, though not consistently across entries.
About 400 celebrities were reportedly assigned a “risk” score. High‑risk labels included Freddie Gibbs, Lil Jon, DaBaby and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, while medium‑risk entries reportedly featured Morgan Wallen, Lily Allen and Jadakiss. Ice Spice, Selena Gomez and Benson Boone were among those said to be listed as “low risk”.
D’Fuck I got to do with this?
— Big (@FreddieGibbs) July 9, 2026
The report has drawn responses from some of the musicians named, with Gibbs posting the quoted tweet and Geese drummer Max Bassin writing on Instagram Stories: “Fuck you James Dolan, you absolutely disgust me.” Dolan is the executive chairman and CEO of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, MSG Sports and Sphere Entertainment, which control MSG, Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theatre, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers, the Sphere in Las Vegas and other venues. Hip‑hop producer Pete Rock was reportedly marked “DO NOT HOST” in the database, which he believes is connected to his previous call for a boycott of Dolan after former Knicks player Charles Oakley was forcibly removed from Madison Square Garden in 2017. “You can’t stop me from being a Knick fan, but your controlling behavior towards people is very unprofessional,” Rock has said. Reports suggest that the company’s surveillance practices include scanning the faces of people entering venues controlled by Dolan’s companies, while the data leak has also appeared to reveal a separate, much larger customer database containing over 10.5 million entries, including email addresses, phone numbers and some birth dates. NME have contacted Madison Square Garden for comment.