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Woman alleging sexual assault by Jay-Z and Sean Combs admits inconsistencies in claims | Jay-Z


A lady who alleged being sexually assaulted at age 13 by rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs throughout a post-award present celebration now admits that there are inconsistencies with respect to her claims, and her lawyer says he’s persevering with to research her story.

NBC News revealed these remarks from the unnamed girl and her lawyer, the Houston-based private damage specialist Tony Buzbee, in an interview on Friday night. And Jay-Z, whose authorized identify is Shawn Carter, issued an announcement saying the NBC interview validated his place that Buzbee and his consumer focused him with a false grievance to realize cash and fame for themselves.

“This incident didn’t occur and but he filed it in courtroom and doubled down within the press,” Jay-Z’s assertion stated of the extremely publicized pending lawsuit linking him to criminally charged alleged intercourse trafficker Combs. “True Justice is coming. We struggle FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over earlier than it started. This 1-800 lawyer doesn’t understand it but, however, quickly.”

In the piece with NBC, the plaintiff recounted how she was pushed from Rochester, New York, to New York City for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards earlier than Combs’s limo driver supplied her a elevate to the afterparty. She described talking with musician Benji Madden and his brother on the celebration in query earlier than her father picked her up after her alleged assault.

However, a consultant of the Madden brothers confirmed to NBC that the siblings have been touring the midwestern US throughout the VMAs. And her father reportedly stated he doesn’t bear in mind what would have been a drive dwelling of greater than 5 hours.

A pal of the plaintiff supposedly drove her to the awards present, however she has since died, in keeping with NBC’s reporting.

The girl – now reportedly dwelling in Alabama – admitted to NBC that she made “some errors” when recalling the evening that she says she was assaulted by Jay-Z and Combs. But she stated she stood by her allegations: that Combs and Jay-Z raped her in a bed room after she signed a nondisclosure settlement, ingested a drink that made her really feel “woozy” and went to lie down. She stated she fled to a close-by fuel station after the alleged assault and from there referred to as for a experience dwelling.

Buzbee, in an electronic mail to the Associated Press, stated his crew’s job is to proceed gathering information and proof every time somebody raises new points that didn’t beforehand exist. He indicated that he would maintain vetting the plaintiff’s account.

Meanwhile, Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, has requested the dismissal of the case towards the 24-time Grammy winner, saying in an announcement: “It is gorgeous {that a} lawyer wouldn’t solely file such a severe grievance with out correct vetting, however would make issues worse by additional peddling this false story within the press.”

It stays to be seen what impact the sufferer’s acknowledgments to NBC might in the end have on her case. Experts have lengthy recognized sexual assault victims can “make incomplete, inconsistent and even unfaithful” statements due to disordered considering ensuing from trauma, as End Violence Against Women International famous in a 2008 report.

The lawsuit introduced by Buzbee towards Jay-Z and Combs varieties a part of a mound of sexual assault lawsuits aimed primarily towards Combs as he stays jailed in New York awaiting trial on federal expenses of intercourse trafficking filed towards him in September.

Buzbee in October held a information convention asserting that he represents about 120 women and men with allegations of sexual misconduct towards Combs, whose requests to be launched from federal custody on bail have been denied 3 times.

Having established toll-free cellphone line for folks with accusations towards Combs, Buzbee’s agency quickly started submitting a sequence of lawsuits towards the rap empresario.

Another distinguished authorized dispute involving Buzbee noticed him pursue quite a few sexual misconduct and assault lawsuits towards NFL quarterback DeShaun Watson, most of which produced settlements for his shoppers. And he helped the Texas lawyer basic, Ken Paxton, win an acquittal in September 2023 on the politico’s impeachment trial on expenses of bribery and dereliction of obligation.

Jay-Z anonymously sued Buzbee in November on claims that the lawyer was attempting to extort cash out of the rapper after sending him a letter threatening to go public along with his consumer’s rape allegation if the musician didn’t pay up. Buzbee has characterised the letter to Jay-Z as a suggestion to mediate a monetary settlement out of courtroom earlier than his consumer sued.

With Jay-Z rejecting a settlement, Buzbee’s consumer sued the music mogul on 9 December.

The Associated Press contributed reporting

Ella Bennet
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