Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter submitted a character assassination fit Monday versus an Alabama lady that asserted he raped her when she was 13 in a since-withdrawn civil legal action.
Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z go to Both Kings Supper offered by Sprite at RDG + Bar Annie on February 16, 2013 in Houston, Texas.
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Carter’s legal action claimed the lady, determined as Jane Doe, timed her case “to bring upon optimum discomfort and suffering on Mr. Carter” to obtain repayments from him.
The legal action additionally called the lady’s lawyers, Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, whom Jay-Z affirmed “were soullessly encouraged by greed, in neglect of the fact and one of the most basic mandates of human modesty.”
The lady at first asserted that Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs took turns sexually attacking her when she was 13 at a celebration complying with the 2000 MTV Video Clip Songs Honors. Both males rejected the accusation.
Jane Doe withdrew her legal action last month after Carter questioned concerning the honesty of her account and his lawyer looked for assents versus Buzbee.
” Doe has actually currently willingly confessed straight to agents of Mr. Carter that the tale brought prior to the globe in court and on international tv was simply that: an incorrect, destructive tale. She has actually confessed that Mr. Carter did not attack her; which without a doubt it was Buzbee himself … that pressed her to move forward with the incorrect story of the attack by Mr. Carter in order to utilize an optimum cash advance,” Carter’s libel legal action claimed.
” Yet the extortion and misuse of Mr. Carter by Doe and her legal representatives need to quit,” it proceeded.
In feedback, Buzbee launched a declaration claiming, “Shawn Carter’s private investigators have actually repetitively bugged, intimidated and accosted this bad lady for weeks attempting to daunt her and make her recant her tale. She hasn’t, and will not. Rather she has actually specified repetitively she waits her cases. These very same team of private investigators have actually been captured on tape offering to pay individuals to sue me and my company. After talking with Jane Doe today, it shows up that the quotes credited to her in the legal action are entirely composed, or they spoke with somebody that isn’t Jane Doe.”
He included, “This is simply an additional effort to daunt and bully this bad lady that we will certainly manage eventually. We will not be harassed or daunted by unimportant instances.”
ABC Information’ Jennifer Leong added to this record.
