An anonymous woman who accused Jay-Z and Sean Combs of raping her when they were 13 filed a lawsuit against hip-hop mogul on Friday.
Jay-Z's lawyers pointed out that the woman's description was “a clear inconsistency,” citing information that questioned the information revealed in the NBC report from her allegations.
Jay Z's lawyer asked the judge to dismiss the complaint, but the plaintiff's lawyer at the time stood by the accuser in court documents, but being a victim of sexual abuse was a lapse in memory. It wrote that it could cause. Court documents filed by the plaintiffs on Friday said the lawsuit was “voluntarily dismissed due to bias.”
In a statement, Jay-Z, who vehemently denied the claim from the start, congratulated the decision by writing that the lawsuit “never go anywhere.”
“The fictional stories they created were hilarious, if not due to the seriousness of the claim,” he said. “I don't want this experience from anyone. I can never dismiss my wife, my children, my loved ones, and the trauma I endured.”
Combs' lawyers at Brooklyn Jail are awaiting trial on charges of assault and sex trafficking, but in a statement Friday, the fire said the “another confirmation that these cases are based on falsehood and not factual. “He said.
“No one, a man or woman, an adult or minor, has ever sexually assaulted or trafficked human beings,” the statement said. “The number of lawsuits, sensationalized claims, and media theatres will not change that reality.”
Tony Buzby, the female lead lawyer, declined to comment.
The lawsuit, first filed in October, added Jay-Z (born Shaun Carter) as the defendant in December, and court documents say the unnamed accuser said she was raped by Mr. Carter and Mr. Combs. I said that. Private housing after the MTV Video Music Awards held in Manhattan in 2000.
In the woman's lawsuit, she said after the encounter she was greeted by her father, who called from a gas station. However, NBC reported that she had to drive from her upstate New York home for several hours to pick her up.
The plaintiff also told NBC in an interview that he spoke to musician Benge Madden, a member of the band's Good Charlotte, after the award that night. However, Madden was on tour in the Midwest at the time, although he had not been accused of illicit misconduct.
The allegations are in a fierce legal dispute between Carter's lawyer and Buzby, a well-known Houston lawyer who has filed more than 20 cases against Combs on behalf of a client who said he was sexually abused. I urged him to.
First, Carter sued Buzby, claiming that a letter he sent to a celebrity claiming damages before naming him in the lawsuit constituted a horror. Buzbee described the letter as a typical lawyer's protocol.
After Mr Carter was added as defendant in the suit, his lawyer, Alex Spiro, responded with a series of court applications attempting to dismiss the claim immediately, with well-published claims posing his client. This is written in the court papers. harm. “The court wrote on an order that the court would not quickly follow the judicial process just because the lawyers demand it,” she said, “She said. pushed back what he called “a relentless submission of motions of struggle.” . ”
Carter's lawyers then filed a sanctions motion against Busby in New York. The plaintiff's lawyer called the plaintiff a “outrageous, unprecedented attempt to silence the allegations.” The sanctions claims were withdrawn earlier this month.
Since the lawsuit was filed, Carter has not moved away from his public appearance. He collaborates with his family and entertainment company Roc Nation at many well-known events that have been accepted by Taylor Swift and NFL Commissioner Roger. Goodell. At the Grammy Awards earlier this month, Carter was seen on camera celebrating with the biggest names of music, including winning toast when Beyoncé won the night's top honor for this year's album.
Joe Coscarelli contributed the report.