As any deep pocket shopper of Alex Spiro will let you know, the high-profile trial lawyer usually executes a most influence technique of very focused assaults on the case in opposition to stated shopper, in addition to the planting of authorized landmines to explode the opposite facet down the road.
That mixture is strictly what the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan associate simply did for Jay-Z at the moment within the Jane Doe underage rape case in opposition to the ‘Empire State of Mind’ singer and the presently imprisoned Sean “Diddy” Combs. Now, with huge blowback from a lawyer representing potential victims of Combs and others, Spiro could have overplayed his hand or gotten exactly the response he needed.
A day after Spiro and Jay-Z (actual identify Shawn Carter) strongly sought to have the refiled rape motion in opposition to the ’99 Problems’ famous person and Combs both tossed out of court docket or have the identify of the then 13-year-old plaintiff from the alleged 2000 assault by the 2 rappers and a nonetheless unnamed feminine “Celebrity B” unmasked, a two-page letter and declaration from colleague Mari Henderson has been despatched to Judge Analisa Torres casting the opposite facet as far far worse than mere Ambulance chasers.
“After detailing her experiences to an lawyer at Mr. Buzbee’s agency, he pressed for a connection to Mr. Combs, asking ‘at what level did you meet Diddy,’ though she made clear that her case was unrelated to Mr. Combs,” Henderson’s declaration states of the regulation agency of Tony Buzbee, who’s presently representing dozens and dozens of nameless alleged victims of sexual abuse by the ‘Al About the Benjamins’ performer.
The unnamed Texas resident right here had reached out to Buzbee’s agency after seeing the media savvy lawyer on TV earlier this fall speaking about Combs, who had been charged with intercourse trafficking in his NYC arrest on September 16. The girl in query despatched into the agency’s web site some details about a intercourse trafficking incident she stated had occurred to her – once more, not together with Sean Combs.
“After not listening to from Mr. Buzbee’s agency for weeks, throughout which this girl tried to contact the agency a number of instances, she spoke once more with a member of the agency who pressed her to substantiate false particulars concerning her experiences as a sufferer, together with that she was drugged, held down, pushed, and bodily assaulted,” the declaration provides, and the letter from Spiro notes too. “She felt directed and coached by Mr. Buzbee’s agency to say that somebody held her down and put medicine in her mouth when that was not her expertise. She felt pressured to lie.”
“When the lady made clear she was unwilling to adapt to the narrative Mr. Buzbee’s agency laid out and needed solely to talk her fact, she was dropped as a shopper and advised that Mr. Buzbee’s agency was unwilling to symbolize her any longer.
Just hours after Jay-Z surprisingly appeared Monday on the LA premiere of Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King with the movie’s voiceover stars Beyoncé and daughter Blue Ivy, the twin submitting by his protection staff has Buzbee getting ready to go scorched Earth with some very very severe accusations of his personal.
Declaring that it’s “patently ridiculous” that his Houston-based agency tried to strongarm a girl into anonymously pursuing a civil case in opposition to the Bad Boy Records founder though “her experiences as a sufferer of trafficking by celebrities” was “fully unrelated to Mr. Combs (or Mr. Carter),” Buzbee advised Deadline the allegations made by Spiro in a letter to a federal decide Monday are pure BS
“We don’t strain folks nor do we have to,” the overtly aggressive lawyer stated after Spiro’s correspondence on behalf of Jay-Z (a.okay.a. Shawn Carter) appeared within the docket in New York earlier at the moment. (See Tony Buzbee’s full assertion beneath)
“I’m rising weary of responding to this type of trash,” Buzbee went on to say. “Jay Z’s staff is determined and seemingly uncontrolled. Their investigators have lately been caught on tape providing present purchasers of our agency one thousand {dollars} to sue our agency. This conduct is reprehensible and unlawful. There will probably be penalties coming quickly.”
In simply the previous jiffy, Buzbee took to social media to supply much more info on the supposed payoff makes an attempt he alleges. “These guys are on tape providing to pay purchasers to sue our regulation agency,” he writes with obvious transcripts. “That’s a criminal offense.”
Longtime Elon Musk lawyer Spiro, who has additionally been very efficiently representing Alec Baldwin in his now dismissed Rust deadly capturing case, didn’t reply to a request from Deadline on Buzbee’s obvious bribery allegations. If they do, this submit will probably be up to date.
Attorney Alex Spiro sits subsequent to Alec Baldwin, as they attend the actor’s manslaughter trial at First Judicial District Courthouse on July 11, 2024 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In this case, the brutal assault on the then teen Jane Doe is alleged to have occurred on September 7, 2000 throughout certainly one of Diddy’s drug fueled so-called “freak offs” simply after that yr’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 an Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan-represented nameless “movie star and public determine who resides in Los Angeles” went after the Texan lawyer for extortion.
“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a felony grievance, not a civil one!!” Jay-Z stated in a handwritten assertion after the refiling, with Spiro in search of the case to be dismissed or the alleged sufferer revealed in paperwork filed on December 8 in federal court docket. On social media on Sinday Buzbee known as Jay- a “bully” and mainly advised him to go screw himself.
As for Sean Combs: After failing in late November in his third try at getting a proposed $50 million bail authorised, the one time music mogul is scheduled to face trial for racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution beginning on May 5, 2025. Incarcerated at Brooklyn’s grim Metropolitan Detention Centre since his arrest virtually two months in the past, the 55-year-old Combs, who has entered a not responsible plea, faces life in jail if discovered responsible.
Read Jane Doe lawyer Tony Buzbee’s full assertion on Jay-Z’s authorized staff’s most lately filings right here:
This allegation is patently ridiculous. If somebody calls our consumption group and has a viable case that we imagine has benefit and we will pursue we are going to pursue it. We are presently pursuing tons of of circumstances in opposition to people and entities apart from PDiddy. What we received’t do is pursue a case that we don’t imagine has benefit. Without telling me the lady’s identify I can’t converse particularly to what she advised the consumption of us to even let you know what this girl claimed if and when she known as. I can let you know we haven’t “dropped” any particular person like this. We don’t strain folks nor do we have to. What we now have completed is reject potential circumstances from folks we discover to not be credible. Understand we get a number of prank calls. And we get a number of calls from individuals who declare they’re aggrieved however we simply can’t assist them. We actually don’t have to “strain” anybody to pursue a case. We have loads of circumstances. What we will’t and received’t do is pursue a case we understand to be weak or intolerable.
I’m rising weary of responding to this type of trash. Jay Z’s staff is determined and seemingly uncontrolled. Their investigators have lately been caught on tape providing present purchasers of our agency one thousand {dollars} to sue our agency. This conduct is reprehensible and unlawful. There will probably be penalties coming quickly.
