Jay-Z, the star rapper and entrepreneur whose actual title is Shawn Carter, was accused in a lawsuit Sunday of raping a 13-year-old woman in 2000 allegedly together with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The nameless accuser, recognized solely as “Jane Doe,” mentioned the assault occurred after she was pushed to an MTV Video Music Awards after-party.
The lawsuit was initially filed in October within the Southern District of New York, itemizing Combs as a defendant. It was refiled Sunday to incorporate Carter.
Carter’s legal professional, Alex Spiro, and his publicist, in addition to Combs’ representatives, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. Texas-based legal professional Tony Buzbee, who filed the swimsuit, didn’t remark.
Buzbee has filed a number of lawsuits in current months — all have withheld their complainants’ names — accusing Combs of assault and rape. This is the primary swimsuit by which he has named one other high-profile defendant.
Combs has repeatedly denied all of the accusations in opposition to him. Federal prosecutors in New York criminally charged him in September with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and different offenses, and he’s behind bars at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after he was denied bail for a 3rd time final month. His trial scheduled for May 5.
Prosecutors mentioned in a court docket listening to final month that they’re within the course of of probably bringing extra costs in opposition to Combs in a superseding indictment.
Before Sunday’s lawsuit was re-filed, “Carter obtained a letter from Plaintiff’s counsel requesting a mediation to resolve this matter,” Buzbee wrote within the swimsuit. NBC News has seen that letter. In response to the letter, Buzbee wrote within the swimsuit, Carter filed his personal lawsuit in opposition to the accuser’s attorneys.
The lawsuit claims that in 2000, when Doe was 13, Combs and Carter raped her at a home celebration after the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
The lawsuit says a pal dropped her off on the VMAs at Radio City Music Hall. She didn’t have a ticket and approached varied limousine drivers to attempt to achieve entry to the present or an after-party.
One driver, the lawsuit mentioned, instructed her that he labored for Combs and that she “match what Diddy was searching for.” He invited her to a celebration after the present and instructed her to return to his automobile later within the night after he transported Carter and Combs, the swimsuit mentioned.
Later, the driving force picked her up, the swimsuit mentioned, and after 20 minutes they arrived at a white home with a U-shaped driveway, the swimsuit says. She needed to signal a doc she believed was a nondisclosure settlement on arrival — and didn’t obtain a duplicate — to enter the celebration, which the swimsuit says was full of celebrities and other people doing marijuana and cocaine.
She was supplied a drink that made her really feel “woozy, lightheaded and felt [like] she wanted to lie down,” the swimsuit says, and she or he went right into a room to relaxation.
Shortly afterward, the swimsuit says, Combs and Carter entered the room with Combs saying, “You are able to celebration!”
That’s when, she alleges, Carter eliminated her garments, held her down and raped her whereas Combs and an unnamed feminine celeb watched. She says Combs additionally raped her as Carter and the lady seemed on.
The swimsuit says that she was in a position to withstand being pressured to carry out oral intercourse on Combs by hitting him within the neck and that he “stopped.”
After the alleged assault, the swimsuit says, she “grabbed her garments” and left. She made her solution to a gasoline station, the place she known as her father.
The accuser is searching for unspecified damages. The lawsuit is filed beneath New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act.
