Se og Hør contemporaneously identified The Thief as Jay-Z's Oslo accommodation and photographed him nearby; Aftonbladet explicitly reported an overnight there; The Independent later corroborated the hotel's Jay-Z guest history.
Jay-Z stayed at The Thief in Oslo during his October 2013 visit to the Norwegian capital. Contemporaneous Norwegian reporting identified the hotel as his accommodation and photographed him nearby during the visit. A Swedish report then explicitly described an overnight at The Thief, while The Independent later included Jay-Z in the hotel’s guest history.
Source conclusion:
The cited sources support a stay at the named hotel.
