With lower than week to go earlier than Beyoncé is about to headline the halftime present at Netflix and the NFL’s Christmas Day face-off between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans, the following few days may show pivotal in Jay-Z’s try to finish the rape case towards him and Sean “Diddy” Combs for the alleged assault of a 13-year-old woman in 2000.
Based in no small half on a NBC News interview the plaintiff gave late final week throwing components of her personal case below the bus, the “99 Problems” rapper’s longtime lawyer known as the entire sordid matter a “sham” in a letter late final week to the choose within the case.
While nothing has proven up on the docket but, Jay-Z’s longtime legal professional Alex Spiro promised simply earlier than the weekend to file one other movement “instantly” to get the factor dismissed. Today. in search of to disassociate his consumer from the a lot accused and incarcerated intercourse trafficking-charged Combs, Spiro did seem on the NYC HQ of the Jay-Z based Roc Nation to reiterate to assembled media a lot of what he mentioned within the December 13 letter.
(L-R_ Jay-Z, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
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“When pressed, the Plaintiff admitted she was ‘guessing’ about key particulars, together with the time it took to achieve the venue,” writes Spiro of the small display sit-down within the December 13 letter to the federal choose overseeing the case. “She admits she has no single corroborating witness over the past 24 years.”
“These gorgeous revelations clarify that the criticism filed by plaintiffs’ legal professional, Anthony Buzbee, due to this fact had no factual foundation in any way,” the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan associate added. “Even Mr. Buzbee is strolling again the criticism he put his identify to – excusing these evident inconsistencies by pointing the finger on the case being referred by one other agency who allegedly vetted the story earlier than sending to them. The heinous allegations towards Mr. Carter are obviously false.”
Leaning laborious into his take-no-prisoners persona, Spiro additionally went for the jugular in his letter of late final week by questioning the ethics and jurisdictional rights of Houston-based Buzbee, who has filed dozens of fits towards Combs and says he has over 100 shoppers with sexual assault allegations towards the Bad Boy Records founder. “Mr. Buzbee thus seems to have strategically declined to hunt admission to be able to keep away from sanctions for a criticism that he knew had no factual foundation,” says the high-profile Spiro within the three-page correspondence to NYC-based Judge Analisa Torres.
Spiro made headlines for one more high-profile consumer when the lawyer orchestrated Alec Baldwin‘s manslaughter case for the 2021 deadly of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins being tossed out throughout trial this summer time. Repeatedly representing Elon Musk over the 12 months, Spiro can also be working for NYC Mayor Eric Adams within the bribery costs towards him. Donald Trump indicated right now he’ll “have a look at” pardoning the Mayor as soon as he’s again within the White House.
Lawyer Alex Spiro speaks to the media alongside his consumer NYC Mayor Erik Adams exterior Manhattan Federal Court Friday on Sept 27, 2024.
Nether Spiro nor Buzbee obtained again to Deadline over request for touch upon the proposed movement to dismiss nor the aspersions forged towards the latter lawyer by the previous.
Obviously, media savvy Spiro’s remarks in Manhattan right now communicate for themselves, although not including a lot to the state of affairs. The additionally social media savvy Buzbee has posted nothing on this case or the rest since December 10. If both legal professional or their workplace do reply, this publish will likely be up to date.
The rape of 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 really graphic October 20 filed lawsuit named Combs for the rape, however merely talked about a male “Celebrity A” and a feminine “Celebrity B” who additionally carnally participated. Jay-Z was named because the “Celebrity A” in a December 8 refiling by Buzbee following a separate swimsuit from a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan-represented nameless “celeb and public determine who resides in Los Angeles” (who was later revealed to obviously be Jay-Z) went after the Texas lawyer for extortion.
Staying within the public eye since his identify was added to one of many many fits towards outdated buddy Combs, Jay-Z has made a strategic determination to adamantly deny the claims and be lively at Tinseltown premieres, on-line and with backing from enterprise companions the NFL. To that, proper after his identify was placed on the desk on December 8, the Roc Nation founder took to his firm’s X/Twitter feed to proclaim: “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a prison criticism, not a civil one!!”
A day later, Spiro filed a movement that acknowledged: “Defendant is respectfully in search of both dismissal of the allegations or disclosure of the Plaintiff’s identification.” The nonetheless unfiled new movement to dismiss threatened in Spiro’s December 13 letter picks up on the earlier dismissal transfer, it appears.
On December 10, Jay-Z and his authorized staff despatched letters to Judge Analisa Torres as soon as once more calling the matter “false,” and as properly smearing Buzbee’s workplace of consumer choosing so as to add extra accusations towards Combs. In response, Buzbee known as such a declare “patently ridiculous.” The Texas lawyer additionally countered that Jay-Z’s facet was collaborating in “reprehensible and unlawful” ways of promising shoppers $1,000 to activate Buzbee.
Failing in late November in his third try at getting a proposed $50 million bail authorised, Combs is about to go on trial for racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution on May 5, 2025. Behind bars at Brooklyn’s brutal Metropolitan Detention Center 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.
Days after scoring a win over the previously Damian Williams-led SDNY U.S. Attorney’s workplace over entry to a laptop computer, Combs got here up brief right now in a movement for discovery and a listening to on whether or not or not the feds are leaking materials on him. Now capable of overview protection paperwork on the MDC, Combs is prone to seem in courtroom in a pretrial convention listening to in his prison case December 18.
The authorities case will likely be fronted by Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Y Kim, who took over as soon as Joe Biden-appointed Williams formally resigned from workplace at 11:59 pm ET on December 13. Williams was set to get replaced by ex-Securities and Exchange chair Jay Clayton as soon as President-elect Trump returns to energy on January twentieth.
There isn’t any indication that the brand new regime will likely be altering the workplace’s method to Combs’ prison case as soon as Clayton takes over.
