UPDATE: Rapper's Manager Disputes Claim That Assistant Principal Heard Song For Music Video

AG, the manager of rapper JR, has come forward to dispute Trey Songz's claim that Ms. Adler-O'Keefe heard the song Best Friend" before agreeing to participate in the music video.

This week, the manager said that not only did Trey Songz not meet Ms. Adler-O'Keefe on set, but she did not know the lyrical content of the song because it was never playing during her part in the music video.

“She never knew any of that. She was only simply informed of who was in the video,” the manager said, adding that unless an artist is actually singing in a scene, then music will not play when a video is being filmed. “None of her parts involved actual performing. The indoor scene in which she was in, there was no music playing.”

AG said he does not know how Ms. Adler-O'Keefe became involved with the music video, but stressed that she "didn't do anything wrong."

“There’s nothing less I want to see than someone’s life and career being put in shambles,” the manager said. “She’s very sweet. I stand behind her.”

Ms. Adler-O'Keefe had defended her role in the music video last month, saying she was not aware of the content of the lyrics. Last week Trey Songz told TMZ that she heard the song "a million times" and "knew what was up."

Ms. Adler-O'Keefe could not be immediately reached for comment.

Trey Songz has spoken out about Ms. Adler-O’Keefe’s change of duties, saying she heard the song “Best Friend” and knew its lyrical content at the time the video was shot, despite her denial last month.

While leaving a club in West Hollywood Friday night, the rapper told TMZ that he felt bad about Ms. Adler O’Keefe’s reassignment, but pointed out that “she knew what was up.”

“She heard the song a million times,” he told TMZ. “I mean, I feel bad. I definitely want to reach out to her.

“She didn’t do nothing wrong,” he added. “It was cool. She was on the level with the students.”

Last month, Ms. Adler-O’Keefe defended her involvement in the video, telling The Press that she “was completely unaware of the content, lyrics, and title of the video and song.

“Had I known of such content or lyrics, I certainly would not have participated in any fashion. I find the lyrics and content of the music video vulgar, offensive, and demeaning,” she had added.

Esther Adler-O’Keefe, the assistant principal at Southampton High School who appeared in a hip-hop artist’s racy music video last month, has been reassigned new administrative duties in the district, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Scott Farina announced Tuesday.

In an email sent out to parents and guardians of students in the district, Dr. Farina wrote that Ms. Adler-O’Keefe will now “oversee a variety of academic support services throughout the district.”

Last month, Ms. Adler-O’Keefe had appeared at both the beginning and end of the music video for Trey Songz and rapper JR’s song “Best Friend,” which followed the story line of a wild party the rappers and their many friends threw when renting Ms. Adler-O’Keefe’s Hamptons home.

Part of Ms. Adler-O’Keefe’s duties as assistant principal at the high school was disciplining students, the district had confirmed last month.

Replacing Ms. Adler-O’Keefe as assistant principal at the high school will be Susan Wright, who has been serving as assistant principal of the intermediate school for the past eight years. She had also served as assistant principal of the elementary school two years prior to working at the intermediate school.

A representative from the district’s payroll office did not return calls seeking information regarding new salaries for Ms. Adler-O’Keefe or Ms. Wright. Another representative did confirm, however, that Ms. Adler-O’Keefe is a tenured employee. She began working in the district in 2010 with a starting salary of $126,500. The administrators’ salaries were not listed on SeeThroughNY.net.

“Ms. Wright brings with her a wealth of educational knowledge and experience, as well as familiarity with our students and our community,” Dr. Farina wrote in Tuesday’s email. “She will continue to serve the students at the high school with the same hands-on, collaborative philosophy she has always held” at the other schools.

The district will immediately begin a search to fill Ms. Wright’s vacated post, but will be replacing the intermediate school assistant principal position with a full-time dean of students position that entails the same duties, just with a different title, a district representative said.

“In the interim, the district’s leadership team, including Dr. Dyno, Mr. Delgado and Mr. Frazier, will handle the duties of the Intermediate School Assistant Principal,” Dr. Farina wrote in the email.

"