Lawyers for Jay-Z plan to ask a decide to toss a lawsuit accusing the rapper of raping a 13-year-old in 2000, pointing to what they described as “obtrusive inconsistencies” that emerged in an NBC interview of the accuser, who was not named within the swimsuit.
In the lawsuit, which was filed final week, the unnamed accuser stated that she had been raped by Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) and Sean Combs at a celebration at a non-public residence after the MTV Video Music Awards in Manhattan in 2000. Mr. Carter strongly denied the allegation.
NBC News printed an interview with the accuser on Friday night wherein she acknowledged inconsistencies in her account, however maintained that her allegation of assault was true.
The lady’s lawsuit claimed that after the encounter she was picked up by her father, whom she referred to as from a gasoline station. But NBC reported that her father, who would have needed to drive hours from his dwelling in upstate New York to choose up his daughter following the after-party, didn’t recall having carried out so. The father was additionally unnamed within the report.
The plaintiff, who now lives in Alabama, additionally advised NBC that she had spoken to the musician Benji Madden, a member of the band Good Charlotte, on the celebration after the awards that evening. But Mr. Madden, who was not accused of any wrongdoing in her swimsuit, was on tour within the Midwest on the time.
Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Mr. Carter, wrote a letter Friday evening to U.S. District Court Judge Analisa Torres saying that Mr. Carter intends to file a movement to strike the criticism, citing the NBC report. “The interview outs plaintiff’s allegations for what they’re: a sham,” he wrote within the letter.
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