Musician and entrepreneur, Jay Z, has just dropped his first legal response to a lawsuit claiming he and Sean “Diddy” Combs were involved in the rape of a 13-year-old girl back in 2000.
Per previous reports, Jay Z released a statement on the night of Sunday, December 8, 2024, and called the case nothing but a money grab. According to Billboard, his legal team filed new paperwork today that argues if someone is going to make such serious accusations, they should have to do it using their real name.
In the motion submitted less than 24 hours after the bombshell lawsuit dropped, Carter’s legal team labeled the accusations as “false,” claiming they were part of an extortion scheme orchestrated by attorney, Tony Buzbee.
Carter’s lawyers also contend that letting Buzbee’s clients proceed using “Jane Doe” aliases is just a move in a bigger “scheme” to squeeze settlements from innocent celebs by wrongfully linking them to Diddy. They argue that this setup lets the attorney tarnish the defendant’s reputation while his clients hide behind the cloak of anonymity.
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“Mr. Carter should not have to defend himself in the brightest of spotlights against an accuser who hides in complete darkness,” writes Jay-Z’s attorney, Alex Spiro. “Mr. Carter deserves to know the identity of the person who is effectively accusing him — in sensationalized, publicity-hunting fashion — of criminal conduct, demanding massive financial compensation, and tarnishing a reputation earned over decades.”
“Mr. Carter now is entitled to defend himself against these allegations with benefit of all the protections and mechanisms available to defendants,” Spiro writes in Monday’s motion. “To be sure, attorney Buzbee’s game has been to prevent Mr. Carter from defending himself while punching below the belt. Today, that game is at an end and Mr. Carter’s defense has begun — starting with plaintiff’s unmasking.”
In an email to the news outlet on Monday, December 9, 2024, Buzbee responded to Jay-Z’s new motion by saying, “I’m not doing a play by play commentary to every pleading filed in court. We will respond in due course.”
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