Lawyers for Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, have filed an affidavit claiming that Tony Buzbee, the legal professional who named Jay in a lawsuit accusing him of raping a 13-year-old in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs, tried to coerce a person to hyperlink an unrelated intercourse trafficking case to Combs.
Carter’s attorneys at Quinn Emanul Urquhart and Sullivan declare that an nameless girl contacted them yesterday to share her expertise with Buzbee Law Firm. She stated that she had reached out to the agency in October concerning trafficking and abuse allegations unrelated to each Combs and Carter. The legislation agency allegedly requested her when she met Combs, regardless of her unrelated claims, and inspired her to pursue her claims anonymously, which she didn’t want to do.
Buzbee’s agency then pressed her to pursue a civil case anonymously, which she was bored with doing. She says that when she introduced up the concept of going to legislation enforcement, Buzbee’s agency stated it was “not encouraged.”
Weeks glided by with out listening to from the agency, and after lastly talking with one in all its workers says that she felt pressured to verify false particulars. According to the declaration, “she felt directed and coached by Mr. Buzbee’s firm to say that someone held her down and put drugs in her mouth when that was not her experience. She felt forced to lie.”
When she made it clear that she was unwilling to take the agency’s directive, she was dropped as a shopper. The affidavit says that she felt compelled to share this data “because she felt the conduct by Mr. Buzbee’s firm — specifically, to encourage lies — discredits those who are legitimate victims.” She is talking out anonymously for worry of retribution from Buzbee’s agency.
Representatives for Buzbee Law Firm didn’t reply to remark.
This marks the newest in a heated back-and-forth between Carter and Buzbee, who added the mogul’s identify to a beforehand filed lawsuit on Sunday. In a fiery assertion, Carter claimed that his lawyer was despatched “blackmail” surrounding the allegations from Buzbee to strain him to settle out of court docket. He says it had the “opposite effect” and as a substitute incited him to reveal the accuser for “the fraud [they] are in a VERY public fashion.”
On Monday, Carter filed a movement to dismiss the go well with and for the Jane Doe from the preliminary lawsuit to disclose her establish in order that he can “properly defend himself against this false claim through the legal process in a transparent manner.”
Combs, in the meantime, has been in jail on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York since Sept. 16 on prices of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. He has been denied bail 3 times and can stay incarcerated till his trial on May 5, 2025, when it could possibly be decided that he may face life in jail.