A lawsuit in opposition to Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs over the alleged rape of a 13-year-old lady at a celebration in 2000 has been dismissed by the lawyer representing the Jane Doe, in accordance with court docket filings.
In December, the unidentified girl added Jay-Z, whose authorized title is Shawn Carter, to a lawsuit she had filed in opposition to Combs in Manhattan federal court docket, alleging she was attacked by the singers in 2000 after Combs’ limo driver provided her a trip to an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty.
The court docket doc submitted by the lady’s legal professionals saying the voluntary dismissal didn’t embody any causes or clarification for the withdrawal. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice, which suggests the plantiff can not refile the some criticism in court docket.
Jay-Z, who vehemently denied the claims and tried to get extracted from the lawsuit, referred to as the lady’s choice to withdraw her declare “a victory” and stated the “fictional tale” she and her legal professionals created was “laughable.”
“The frivolous, fictitous and appalling allegations have been dismissed,” he stated in an announcement posted on social media. “This civil suit was without merit and never going anywhere.”
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“The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed,” Jay-Z added. “The 1-800 lawyer gets to file a suit hiding behind Jane Doe, and when they quickly realize that the money grab is going to fail, they get to walk away with no repercussions. The system has failed.”
Jay-Z stated that the court docket “must protect victims” however the court docket additionally has the “same ethical responsibility” to “protect the innocent from being accused without a shred of evidence.”
“May the truth prevail for all victims and those falsely accused equally,” he concluded.
Jay-Z’s lawyer Alex Spiro issued a person assertion, writing: “The false case against Jay-Z, that never should have been brought, has been dismissed with prejudice. By standing up in the face of heinous and false allegations, Jay has done what few can — he pushed back, he never settled, he never paid 1 red penny, he triumphed and cleared his name.”
On Mon., Feb. 10, Jay-Z filed a declaration in Los Angeles stating he believed the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, purposefully inflicted emotional misery on him by submitting the lawsuit.
According to People, the declaration stated that Buzbee deliberately filed the criticism on the night time of his daughter Blue Ivy’s Mufasa: The Lion King film premiere “to put me in the position of having to choose between supporting my daughter or hiding to avoid the negative press.”
The Empire State of Mind rapper additionally claims that he misplaced $20 million in contracts on account of false allegations in Buzbee’s lawsuit. He additionally says that he has been going by means of deep “mental anguish” because it was filed.
“I felt that Mr. Buzbee was placing a gun to my head that I either bow to his demands or endure personal and financial ruin,” Jay-Z reportedly wrote within the declaration.
Diddy has been in a Brooklyn federal jail since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses. He additionally faces a wave of sexual assault lawsuits, lots of which had been filed by Buzbee. The Texas lawyer claims his agency represents greater than 150 individuals, each women and men, who allege sexual abuse and exploitation by Diddy.
Lawyers for Diddy stated the dismissal of the lawsuit with out a settlement verify that the opposite allegations in opposition to him are additionally constructed on falsehoods.
“For months, we have seen case after case filed by individuals hiding behind anonymity, pushed forward by an attorney more focused on media headlines than legal merit. Just like this claim, the others will fall apart because there is no truth to them,” they stated in an announcement, including that Diddy “has never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone — man or woman, adult or minor.”
Buzbee’s agency, which has arrange a 1-800 quantity for accusers, has filed a wave of lawsuits in opposition to Diddy. Buzbee’s lawsuits allege that lots of the individuals he represents had been abused at events in New York, California and Florida, the place people declare they got drinks laced with medicine.
Earlier this month, Buzbee filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court, regarding an as-yet-unnamed aspiring male singer, who claims he was drugged and sexually assaulted by Diddy in 2015. The man, who’s suing Diddy for sexual battery, is looking for a sequence of damages to deal with the bodily and emotional misery he allegedly suffered. He is looking for an quantity to be decided at trial.
— With recordsdata from The Associated Press
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