Attorney Tony Buzbee is standing his floor towards Jay-Z’s denial of explosive allegations involving Diddy and a 2000 MTV VMAs afterparty.
Responding to Jay-Z’s declare that the lawsuit is a “blackmail try,” Buzbee took to X (previously Twitter) on Sunday, December 8, alleging that his consumer “by no means demanded a penny” and solely sought “a confidential mediation.”
The lawsuit, which accuses Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a then-13-year-old woman, has escalated tensions between the events.
Buzbee accused Jay-Z, whose authorized identify is Shawn Carter, of submitting a “frivolous case below a pseudonym” again in November in an try and intimidate him and his consumer. “Since I despatched the letter on her behalf, Mr. Carter has… tried to bully and harass me and this plaintiff,” Buzbee acknowledged.
Meanwhile, Jay-Z launched a fiery assertion to Page Six, calling Buzbee an “ambulance chaser in an affordable go well with” and rejecting any notion of settling. “No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me wish to expose you for the fraud you might be in a VERY public style,” the Empire State of Mind rapper wrote, vowing to not pay “ONE RED PENNY.”
Court filings obtained by Page Six element accusations that each Jay-Z and Combs sexually assaulted a minor whose identification was not disclosed, with additional allegations that Combs hosted drug-fueled events the place assaults occurred.
Buzbee, representing over 100 alleged victims in associated circumstances towards Combs, has promised to litigate these claims “in court docket, not within the media.”
The authorized battles come as Combs faces separate prices of racketeering, prostitution, and intercourse trafficking. He stays in custody with out bail regardless of ongoing appeals.
