Hip hop artist and enterprise mogul Jay-Z has been named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit which alleges that he, along with hip hop impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs, drugged and raped a 13-year-old lady in 2000.
The lawsuit was initially filed by an nameless “Jane Doe” plaintiff within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York in October. It named Combs because the defendant, alongside a lot of his company entities, together with Unhealthy Boy Leisure and Unhealthy Boy Data. Yesterday, the lawsuit was amended so as to add Jay-Z, a co-defendant, whose actual title is Shawn Carter.
The lawsuit alleges that 2000 the plaintiff went to the MTV Video Music Awards in New York Metropolis with no ticket, hoping to get in. There, a limousine driver who claimed he labored for Combs invited her to an afterparty. He drove her to the celebration, the place she alleges that she was made to signal a doc that she believed was a non-disclosure settlement. She additional alleges that upon consuming a portion of a beverage that was given to her by one of many waitresses on the celebration, she started feeling dizzy and lightheaded and located a room with a mattress so she might lie down.
The lawsuit alleges that Carter, Combs and an unidentified feminine celeb, who Plaintiff acknowledged, subsequently entered the room, and Carter held her down and raped her whereas Combs and the lady watched. Then Combs raped her whereas Carter and the lady watched. The lawsuit additional alleges that Combs then tried to drive her to carry out oral intercourse on him, however she hit him, grabbed her garments and ran away, escaping to a fuel station exterior the place she used the telephone to name her father.
The lawsuit alleges violation of the New York Metropolis Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act (VGMVPA). The VGMVPA offers a personal explanation for motion for any particular person who has been injured by one other in a criminal offense of violence motivated by gender. The VGMVPA briefly suspends the statute of limitations for alleged acts that violate this legislation, even when the alleged acts befell many years in the past and have been beforehand time-barred. The VGMVPA permits people to get better financial damages, damages for emotional misery, punitive damages and lawyer’s charges and bills.
The lawsuit is considered one of many filed in opposition to Combs by Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee on behalf of greater than 100 plaintiffs. Buzbee beforehand made a reputation for himself representing twenty-two ladies who introduced claims in opposition to Houston Texans quarterback DeSean Watson in 2021 for claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. All of the claims have been finally settled out of court docket.
Carter responded to the lawsuit in a press release, writing that “My lawyer acquired a blackmail try, referred to as a requirement letter, from a ‘lawyer’ named Tony Buzbee. What he had calculated was the character of those allegations and the general public scrutiny would make me need to settle. No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me need to expose you for the fraud you’re in a VERY public vogue. So no, I can’t provide you with ONE RED PENNY!!”
Buzbee was sued in November by an nameless male celeb who alleges that Buzbee tried to extort funds by threatening to file sexual assault claims in opposition to him, which the celeb denies. Buzbee denies all allegations of extortion. The nameless celeb has been alleged by Buzbee and within the media to be Jay-Z himself.
In a submit on X on December 8, Buzbee responded to Carter, writing that “What he fails to say in his latest assertion is my agency despatched his lawyer a requirement letter on behalf of an alleged sufferer and that sufferer by no means demanded a penny from him. As a substitute, she solely sought a confidential mediation. Since I despatched the letter on her behalf, Mr. Carter has not solely sued me, however he has tried to bully and harass me and this plaintiff. His conduct has had the alternative impression. She is emboldened. I’m very happy with her resolve.”
Buzbee additionally claimed in an Instagram submit that there was a concerted marketing campaign to intimidate him, together with “submitting frivolous instances in opposition to me and my legislation agency, defaming me with outrageous assertions to anybody who will pay attention, and having mysterious individuals observe me and my household.”
