Jay-Z has filed a movement to dismiss the continued lawsuit in opposition to him filed by a lady who alleges the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her when she was 13 years outdated throughout a VMAs after occasion in 2000.
Jay-Z, actual identify Shawn Carter, filed the brand new movement on Wednesday after securing the greenlight to take action from United States District Judge Analisa Torres. The request, considered by Variety, claims there are a collection of inconsistencies within the girl’s account.
Carter’s legal professional Alex Spiro cites the Jane Doe accuser’s interview with NBC News in December, the place she advised the publication she had made “some mistakes” in her retelling of her story (additionally in December, Judge Torres dominated the accuser can stay nameless within the case). Spiro argues that the accuser’s lawyer — Tony Buzbee, who already has a defamation case pinned in opposition to him from Carter — is accusing Carter of “a horrific crime without adequately vetting the allegation.”
Buzbee didn’t instantly return Variety‘s request for remark.
Judge Torres beforehand condemned Spiro’s “relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks [on accuser’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee].” Spiro doubles down on his claims on this new movement, claiming there are numerous “inconsistencies and outright impossibilities” in Jane Doe’s allegations.
Jane Doe, who filed her authentic lawsuit in opposition to Combs in October, and re-filed it with Carter’s identify in early December. Carter issued a press release virtually instantly after the accuser named him within the go well with. He referred to the claims as a “blackmail attempt,” whereas a separate assertion from his leisure firm, Roc Nation, referred to Buzbee as an “1-800 lawyer” who’s “in the pursuit of money and fame.”