Jay-Z filed a brand new movement on Wednesday searching for to dismiss the lawsuit introduced by a girl who alleges that he and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000 when she was 13 years previous.
Within the court docket submitting, filed on Wednesday, the rapper and his attorneys reference what they declare are inconsistencies within the girl’s account of the occasions from that night time. Additionally they requested that the decide impose a financial sanction on the girl’s lawyer, Anthony Buzbee, claiming that he didn’t adequately examine the girl’s allegations earlier than submitting the swimsuit.
The allegations in opposition to Jay-Z, whose actual title is Shawn Carter, have been made in an amended lawsuit filed final yr. The girl alleges that in 2000, when she was 13 years previous, she was drugged and raped by each Carter and Combs at an afterparty hosted by Combs after the MTV Music Awards, which befell in New York.
Carter has repeatedly denied the allegations in opposition to him, and criticized the lawsuit, calling it a “blackmail try” by the plaintiff’s lawyer.
Combs has denied all the allegations in opposition to him, together with this one. He’s presently in jail on federal intercourse trafficking fees, to which he has pleaded not responsible.
Within the new submitting, Carter’s attorneys cited an interview the girl gave with NBC Information in December, wherein she stood by her allegations however admitted that she had “made some errors” in elements of her account round corroborating witnesses.
“Actually, what’s the clearest is what occurred to me and [the] route that I took to what occurred to me,” she stated. “Not all the faces there are as clear, so I’ve made some errors. I’ll have made a mistake in figuring out.”
Among the many passages from the NBC Information story referenced was that the girl claimed that her father picked her up after the alleged sexual assault, however her father stated that he didn’t recall choosing her up; the girl additionally talked about chatting with a musician on the afterparty, however a consultant for that musician stated that the musician was not in New York on the time.
Elsewhere within the submitting, Carter’s attorneys pointed to alleged impossibilities within the girl’s story akin to her description of Combs’s house, and argued that “by any goal measure, the truth that practically each step in Plaintiff’s narrative – from her arrival on the VMAs to her interactions with the limousine driver and celebrities to the journey together with her father – seems to be false or extremely unlikely casts appreciable doubt on Plaintiff’s allegation that Mr. Carter raped her, which he didn’t.”
Along with making an attempt to have the case dismissed, Carter’s attorneys additionally requested that the decide impose a financial sanction on the girl’s lawyer, Buzbee, who they allege didn’t topic the girl’s allegations to “even probably the most rudimentary diligence”.
“To signal a pleading accusing somebody of such a horrific crime with out adequately vetting the allegation – notably when the defendant’s prominence implies that the allegation might be repeated in headlines internationally – is deeply unsuitable and unethical,” Carter’s lawyer states within the submitting.
“If attorneys don’t face penalties for such a cavalier effort to destroy one other particular person’s repute and inflict emotional hurt on his family members, that tactic will proliferate.”
The financial sanction, Carters attorneys say, would “guarantee some measure of deterrence of this kind of conduct sooner or later”.
Buzbee stated in a press release to Rolling Stone on Wednesday that he wouldn’t be “bullied or intimidated” by Carter or his workforce.
Carter’s lawyer and his agency “are paid by the hour, so, they file quite a lot of junk with the Court docket”, Buzbee advised Rolling Stone. “With every frantic submitting, his workforce reeks of desperation. He and his workforce assume the legal guidelines and guidelines don’t apply to them. They’re flat unsuitable. Additionally they assume they will bully or intimidate counsel for victims by submitting meritless and frivolous pleadings filled with lies and half-truths. Once more, they’re lifeless unsuitable … We are going to deal with the utter lack of benefit along with his submitting with the Court docket, quite than with the press.”
Buzbee advised NBC Information in December that the girl’s case was “referred to our agency by one other, who vetted it previous to sending it to us”, including that his shopper “stays fiercely adamant that what she has acknowledged is true, to the very best of her reminiscence”.
“We are going to proceed to vet her claims and gather corroborating information to the extent it exists,” he advised the community. “As a result of now we have interrogated her intensely, she has even agreed to undergo a polygraph. I’ve by no means had a shopper counsel that earlier than.”
He added: “We at all times do our greatest to vet every declare made, simply as we did on this case.”
The brand new submitting comes after the decide overseeing the case denied an earlier effort made by Carter and his workforce to dismiss the case.
Decide Analisa Torres wrote within the court docket order in December: “Carter’s lawyer’s relentless submitting of combative motions containing inflammatory language and advert hominem assaults is inappropriate, a waste of judicial assets, and a tactic unlikely to profit his shopper.”
Torres additionally stated the court docket “is not going to fast-track the judicial course of merely as a result of counsel calls for it”.
Individually, Carter is suing Buzbee in California for extortion and defamation. Buzbee has launched his personal lawsuit in opposition to Carter’s firm, Roc Nation, claiming that the corporate and its attorneys are utilizing “shadowy operatives” to unlawfully entice former purchasers of Buzbee to file “frivolous” claims in opposition to him.
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