Less than 24 hours after Jay-Z was publicly named in a lawsuit accusing the “99 Problems” rapper and the presently incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a 13-year-old over 20 years in the past, a flurry of filings Monday finds the musician/entrepreneur – born Shawn Carter – wanting the entire thing tossed within the authorized dumpster or introduced out into the sunshine of day.
“Defendant is respectfully searching for both dismissal of the allegations or disclosure of the Plaintiff’s identification,” reads a memorandum accompanying a movement filed in federal court docket in New York this morning from Jay-Z’s excessive powered Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyer Alex Spiro. “Fair is truthful.”
The horrific alleged assault on the then teen Jane Doe is claimed to have occurred on September 7, 2000 throughout one in all Diddy’s drug fueled so-called “freak offs” simply after that 12 months’s MTV VMAs. A graphic October 20 filed lawsuit named Combs for the rape, however merely talked about a male Celebrity A and a nonetheless unnamed Celebrity B who additionally participated.
That alleged Celebrity A has now been named as Jay-Z/Shawn Carter.
“Mr. Carter deserves to know the identification of the one that is successfully accusing him – in sensationalized, publicity-hunting vogue – of legal conduct, demanding huge monetary compensation, and tarnishing a fame earned over many years,” Spiro’s memo states. “This Court has acknowledged the almost an identical claims introduced by different Plaintiffs represented by Attorney Buzbee don’t meet the factors to proceed anonymously. Here, the stability of the equities afford all of the extra motive why this Plaintiff needs to be continuing below her true identify, if she needs to proceed in any respect.”
First put earlier than the court docket by lawyer Tony Buzbee again on October 20 below the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act as one of many dozens of civil circumstances the Texan has filed in opposition to Combs, the paperwork initially solely recognized a “Celebrity A” and a “Celebrity B” who joined the Bad Boy Records founder in a brutal and repeated sexual assault on a minor. On November 18, an Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan-represented nameless “movie star and public determine who resides in Los Angeles” went after the hyperbolic Buzbee for extortion in LA Superior Court. On December 8, the Houston-based lawyer refiled his preliminary go well with with Beyoncé’s higher half now within the kind of highlight no one ever ever desires.
In an extended assertion not lengthy after that refiling, the often media-reticent Jay-Z admitted he was the movie star within the LASC case, and personally wrote of the amended civil grievance: “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a legal grievance, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such against the law in opposition to a minor needs to be locked away, would you not agree?”
Throwing some Brooklyn road “strict codes and honor” on the market, there famend wordsmith multi-Grammy winner added: “This lawyer, who I’ve achieved a little bit of analysis on, appears to have a sample of those kind of theatrics! I don’t know how you might have come to be such a deplorable human Mr. Buzbee, however I promise you I’ve seen your sort many occasions over. I’m greater than ready to cope with your kind. You declare to be a marine?! Marines are recognized for his or her valor, you might have neither honor nor dignity.”
Buzbee swung again on social media yesterday, saying that very long time Combs pal Jay-Z “has not solely sued me, however he has tried to bully and harass me and this plaintiff.”
Failing in late November in his third try at getting a proposed $50 million bail accredited, Combs is ready to go on trial for racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution on May 5, 2025. Behind bars at Brooklyn’s notoriously harsh Metropolitan Detention Centre since his arrest in a NYC resort foyer on September 16, the 55-year-old Combs, who has entered a not responsible plea, faces life in jail if discovered responsible by a jury of his friends.
No date has been set but for Jay-Z’s request for a listening to on his movement to dismiss the rape case or have Jane Doe unmasked. For those that acknowledge the identify of the billionaire rapper’s primary lawyer, Alex Spiro has represented a lot of massive names through the years, together with just lately Alec Baldwin in his now dismissed involuntary manslaughter case associated to the 2021 deadly taking pictures of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
