Via NYPost:

Jay-Z celebrated his 40/40 Club’s 10th anniversary with a blowout bash Monday. The rapper arrived with Robert Kraft and his girlfriend Ricki Noel Lander, and didn’t miss a chance to poke fun at Russian leader Vladimir Putin — whom the NFL owner recently accused of stealing his Super Bowl ring, as Page Six reported.

“Jay touched Kraft’s championship ring, and Kraft asked if he wanted it,” said a spy. “Jay said, ‘I’m going to take it!’ ” He then jokingly told guests, “I just bought the New England Patriots!”

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Background to story via NFL.com:

You might recall that Kraft in 2005 joined a cadre of businessmen to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. The Patriots owner walked into that meeting with a jewel-laced Super Bowl XXXIX ring on his finger but left empty-handed.

“I showed the president my most recent Super Bowlring,” Kraft said at the time, per The Boston Globe. Putin “was clearly taken with its uniqueness … at that point, I decided to give him the ring as a symbol of the respect and admiration that I have for the Russian people and the leadership of President Putin.”

Not so fast. Kraft now admits Putin nabbed the ring — worth upwards of $25,000 — without his consent.

“I took out the ring and showed it to (Putin),” Kraft said this week, per the New York Post. “And he put it on and he goes, ‘I can kill someone with this ring,’ I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.”

Putin’s spokesman rebuts Kraft’s claim, telling CNN that Putin did not steal the ring and instead was given it as a gift. He even called Kraft’s comments “weird.” “I was standing 20 centimeters away from him and Mr. Putin and saw and heard how Mr. Kraft gave this ring as a gift,” the spokesman said Sunday.

The Patriots did their best to throw water on any potential controversy when reached for comment by NFL.com and NFL Network on Sunday.