UPDATED: Jay-Z has issued an announcement after his title was added in a civil lawsuit that accuses each the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs of allegedly raping a 13-year-old lady in 2000.
In accordance with a NBC Information report, the lawsuit filed by the Texas-based Tony Buzbee was initially filed in October within the Southern District of New York and listed Combs because the defendant. NBC Information stories it was refiled Sunday to incorporate Jay-Z, whose full title is Shawn Carter.
The accuser is ID’ed as Jane Doe within the swimsuit. The assault allegedly occurred after she was pushed to a celebration after the MTV Video Music Awards.
In an announcement posted on his Roc Nation account on Instagram, Jay-Z accuses Buzbee of blackmail in what he deemed a “demand letter” from the legal professional.
“What he had calculated was the character of those allegations and the general public scrutiny would make me wish to settle. No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me wish to expose you for the fraud you might be in a VERY public trend. So no, I cannot offer you ONE RED PENNY!!
“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a prison criticism, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such against the law towards a minor must be locked away, would you not agree?
These alleged victims would deserve actual justice if that had been the case.
“This lawyer, who I’ve finished a little bit of analysis on, appears to have a sample of those kind of theatrics!
I do not know how you may have come to be such a deplorable human Mr. Buzbee, however I promise you I’ve seen your form many occasions over. I’m greater than ready to cope with your kind. You declare to be a marine?! Marines are identified for his or her valor, you may have neither honor nor dignity.
“My solely heartbreak is for my household. My spouse and I should sit our kids down, certainly one of whom is on the age the place her buddies will certainly see the press and ask questions concerning the nature of those claims, and clarify the cruelty and greed of individuals. I mourn yet one more lack of innocence. Kids shouldn’t should endure such at their younger age. It’s unfair to should attempt to perceive inexplicable levels of malice meant to destroy households and human spirit.
“My coronary heart and assist goes out to true victims on the planet, who’ve to look at how their life story is wearing costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in an affordable swimsuit. You’ve made a horrible error in judgement considering that every one “celebrities” are the identical. I’m not out of your ethical world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the mission of Brooklyn. We don’t play a lot of these video games. We now have very strict codes and honor. We shield kids, you appear to use individuals for private achieve. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, pretend physics, will imagine the idiotic claims you may have levied towards me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to youngsters, can be laughable. I stay up for exhibiting you simply how totally different I’m.”
In October, Buzbee vowed to file a number of circumstances on behalf of alleged victims of Combs. That’s along with the practically 20 different civil circumstances and the prison costs of intercourse trafficking and extra from the feds that Combs is combating.
Of the half a dozen plaintiffs for Combs’ accused actions between 1995 and 2021 filed in federal court docket in New York underneath the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act, certainly one of them was a 19-year previous feminine and one was a 16-year previous boy.
Combs has repeatedly denied all of the accusations towards him. On November 27, a federal choose rejected his most up-to-date bid to be launched from New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Detention Middle earlier than his 2025 trial.
Arrested in mid-September on racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution costs that might see him in jail for all times if discovered responsible, the 55-year-old Combs’ trial is about to begin on Might 5, 2025. Placing up a $50 million bond plus different ensures, Combs noticed two earlier bail efforts stymied in September.
Dominic Patten contributed to this report.