Rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs have been accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old lady again in 2000.
The lawsuit, which was initially filed in October and re-filed Sunday in New York so as to add Jay-Z to the record of defendants, alleges that the sufferer, recognized solely as a girl now residing in Alabama, was raped by each males at a Video Music Awards afterparty.
Jay-Z, whose actual identify is Shawn Carter, referred to the allegations in a press release as a “blackmail try.” Combs’ lawyer denied the allegations.
The lawsuit alleges the lady went to the VMAs in New York City with no ticket hoping to get inside, however was as an alternative invited to an afterparty by a limo driver who claimed to work for Combs. The limo driver allegedly drove her to the occasion, the place she was instructed to signal one thing that she believes was a non-disclosure settlement, the lawsuit claims.
While inside, the lawsuit alleges, “after trying to speak to quite a few celebrities, Plaintiff accepted a drink from one of many waitresses circulating the gang.” The lawsuit claims she started to really feel “woozy and lightheaded” after ingesting “a portion of the drink” and went to discover a place to lie down. She went right into a room that had a mattress in it and, shortly after mendacity down, Combs, Carter and an unnamed lady celeb whom the alleged sufferer acknowledged entered the room, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit then alleges that Carter held her down and raped her whereas Combs and the girl celeb watched. After, Combs additionally raped her whereas Carter and the girl watched, the go well with claims. Combs then tried to pressure the lady to carry out oral intercourse on him, however she managed to punch him, seize her garments, wrap them round her and run away, in keeping with the lawsuit.
“Although there have been different company nonetheless on the occasion, nobody appeared to take discover of Plaintiff’s misery or tried to assist her,” the lawsuit alleges.
According to the lawsuit, after leaving the home and placing her garments again on, the lady managed to run again to a gasoline station she had seen on the best way to the occasion, the place a clerk “seen her misery and allowed her to make use of the telephone.” She then allegedly used the telephone to name her father and have him choose her up.
The lady is searching for unspecified damages.
In response to the submitting, Carter mentioned in a press release, “My lawyer acquired a blackmail try, referred to as a requirement letter, from a ‘lawyer’ named Tony Buzbee. What he had calculated was the character of those allegations and the general public scrutiny would make me need to settle. No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me need to expose you for the fraud you’re in a VERY public trend. So no, I can’t offer you ONE RED PENNY!!”
“Only your community of conspiracy theorists, faux physics, will consider the idiotic claims you may have levied in opposition to me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to children, could be laughable,” the assertion added.
Teny Geragos, an lawyer representing Combs, mentioned in a press release, “This amended criticism and the current extortion lawsuit in opposition to Mr. Buzbee exposes his barrage of lawsuits in opposition to Mr. Combs for what they’re: shameless publicity stunts, designed to extract funds from celebrities who concern having lies unfold about them, simply as lies have been unfold about Mr. Combs. As his authorized group has mentioned earlier than, Mr. Combs has full confidence within the details and the integrity of the judicial course of. In courtroom, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody—man or lady, grownup or minor.”
Buzbee was sued final month by an nameless male celeb, who alleges the lawyer tried to extort funds by threatening to file allegations of sexual assault, which the celeb denies. Buzbee, in return, denies the extortion allegations.
Buzbee didn’t instantly reply to a CBS News request for remark. On Sunday night time he posted on Instagram that there was a “coordinated and aggressive effort” in opposition to him that has included “submitting frivolous circumstances in opposition to me and my regulation agency, defaming me with outrageous assertions to anybody who will hear, and having mysterious folks comply with me and my household.”
“People will see by means of this effort to discredit me and my purchasers and the reality might be revealed. I additionally will not enable anybody to scare my purchasers into silence,” Buzbee wrote.
Combs is at the moment in custody in New York as he awaits trial on federal intercourse trafficking expenses. His makes an attempt to safe bail have been denied a number of occasions.
Combs was arrested in September and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, with prosecutors accusing him of utilizing his enterprise empire to have interaction in repeated abuses through the years. He has pleaded not responsible to the costs.
