Lil Tay’s former supervisor, Harry Tsang, has weighed in at the confounding declare that she and her brother had not passed away — regardless of what used to be printed on Instagram — and had been in lieu sufferers of a hack.

On Wednesday, a observation posted at the social media big name’s verified web page declared that the 14-year-old and her brother had died — a press release that sparked hypothesis amongst her fanatics around the internet.

By way of Thursday, a spokesperson for the community reportedly told TMZ that she and her sibling weren’t, in truth, lifeless — and that her social media web page had been “compromised” through an unidentified assailant.

“I think she’s still alive, and I think it was fake,” Tsang, 32, mentioned in a telephone name with The Submit on Thursday.

On the other hand, Tsang famous that he has no longer but tried to succeed in out to Lil Tay, and does no longer intend to.

“I don’t believe anything that they say about the hacking,” he mentioned next within the name. “I’m glad that she’s ok.”

The previous supervisor additionally introduced explanation in regards to feedback he made Wednesday, pointing out that he may neither confirm nor deny the “legitimacy” of the star’s passing.

“The reason why I have that statement was because after I spoke to Duane Laventure [Lil Tay’s former social media manager] and Chris Hope [Lil Tay’s father], they cannot even confirm if she really passed away or not. That’s why I said that,” he defined to The Submit.

TMZ reportedly won word of honour from Lil Tay herself, claiming that her Instagram account “was compromised by a 3rd party and used to spread jarring misinformation and rumors,” and in addition identified that the alleged hacker had additionally spelled her title mistaken. “My legal name is Tay Tian, not ‘Claire Hope’.”

Tsang, then again, couldn’t vouch for the unutilized title as he’d come to grasp her as Claire Hope time the 2 labored in combination.

The fresh observation pointing out her loss of life has since been deleted from her Instagram web page.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating news of our beloved Claire’s sudden and tragic passing,” it learn, next including, “This outcome was entirely unexpected, and has left us all in shock.”

Thus far, Los Angeles police have no longer been in a position to verify the loss of life of the younger artist, who hails from Toronto however relocated to LA in her stand to cyber superstardom.

The Submit reached out to the Toronto law office the place Chris Hope, Tay’s father, is hired, however the guy at the series declined to corroborate his daughter’s passing.

“Yeah, you have the right person, but I don’t have any comment right now,” Hope instructed The Submit within the temporary, 2-minute name Wednesday. “I’m not able to give you any comment right now. I’m sorry — I can’t.”

When requested whether or not somebody else may verify his daughter’s loss of life, he answered, “Um, no, not that that I’m aware of.”

“Sorry, I can’t really comment or give you any help — I’m just going to let you go,” he added cryptically sooner than striking up.

In the meantime, suspicions that Hope had in the past been abusive towards his daughter resurfaced within the wake of her doubtful “death.” Allegations had been first leveled in an April 2021 GoFundMe profile arranged through the teenager’s used brother, Jason Tian, who additionally claimed abuse by the hands of Hope’s spouse, Hanee.

In his enchantment, Tian shared, “My sister Tay has been silent on social media for the past 3 years because her absentee father (Chris Hope) served my mother a court order demanding control over Tay’s money, career and custody.”

Previous to the teenager’s alleged passing, Lil Tay hadn’t been lively on social media since 2018.

Tian endured, “As a result, it was court ordered that my sister had to return to Vancouver, Canada … Since then he has stolen millions of dollars from my sister and has taken control of all her funds.”

Tsang, then again, additionally doubts this narrative.

“He is a cool guy,” he mentioned of Hope. When requested through The Submit if he discovered the abuse allegations to be true, Tsang merely mentioned, “No, absolutely not.”