Roger Goodell is setting the file straight on JAY-Z and Roc Nation’s relationship with the NFL following the bombshell allegations towards the Hip-Hop mogul and Sean “Diddy” Combs earlier this week.
The NFL commissioner addressed the matter throughout a press convention Wednesday (December 11), following the league’s winter assembly. He was requested his ideas on the current allegations that Hov and Diddy drugged and raped a 13-year-old lady in 2000.
Acknowledging the lawsuit and JAY-Z’s “actually sturdy response” to the submitting, Goodell confirmed the NFL’s place on the partnership has not modified.
“We all know clearly that litigation is occurring,” Goodell started. “However from our standpoint our relationship isn’t altering with them, together with our preparations for the following Tremendous Bowl.”
He continued, stating Roc Nation is “getting extremely snug with not simply with the Tremendous Bowl however different occasions they’ve suggested us on and helped us with.” Goodell additionally credited JAY-Z and his firm with being “a giant assist in the social justice space to us on many events.”
He concluded, “They’ve been nice companions they usually’ve offered loads of worth for us.”
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JAY-Z and Roc Nation started a five-year partnership with the NFL in 2019 for occasions, together with the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, and social activism. The deal was renewed in October this 12 months.
The Roc Nation boss firmly denied the lawsuit allegations in a decisive assertion. He additionally branded the go well with a “shakedown,” accusing the lawyer, who additionally represents over 100 alleged victims of Diddy, of tried blackmail.
Hov’s authorized group additionally alleges that the lawyer, Tony Buzbee, is orchestrating a marketing campaign of fabricated claims in an try and extort thousands and thousands.
In the meantime, Buzbee denied the accusations. He promised to supply proof of “outright unlawful conduct” from JAY-Z’s protection counsel in the end.
