Jay-Z, the star rapper and entrepreneur whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accuṣed in a lawsuit Sunday of räping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 allégedly along with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
A report public on NBC News stated that an anonymous accùser, identified only as “Jane Doe,” said the asṣault happened after she was driven to an MTV Video Music Awards after-party.
The federal lawsuit was said to have been filed in October in the Southern District of New York, listing Combs as a defẹ́ndant. It was refiled Sunday to include Carter.
Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee, who filed the suìt, did not comment.
Carter called the allẹ́gations “idìotic” in a lengthy statement Sunday evening and allẹ́ged that Buzbee was engaged in unprọ̀fessional behavior.
“These allégations are so hẹ́inous in nature that I implore you to file a crimìnal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crìme against a minọ̀r should be locked away, would you not agree?” Carter said in a statement to NBC News. “These alléged victìms would deserve real justice if that were the case.”
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on whether the office is pursuing the case when shown NBC News’ report on the lawsuit.
Buzbee has filed several lawsuits in recent months — all have withheld their complainants’ names — accùsing Combs of assâult and râpe. This is the first suit in which he has named another high-profile defẹ́ndant.
In a statement, legal representatives for Combs called the suits “shämeless publicity stùnts, designed to extract payments from celebrities who féar having lịes spread about them, just as lìes have been spread about Mr. Combs.”
“As his legal team has said before, Mr. Combs has full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs never séxually assâulted or trâfficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minòr,” the statement read.
Federal prọ̀secutors in New York crimìnally charged Combs in September with raçkéteering, sẹ́x traffịcking and other offẹ̀nses, and he is behind bárs at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after he was denịed báil for a third time last month. His trìal is scheduled for May 5.
Prosecutors said in a court hearing last month that they are in the process of potentially bringing more charges against Combs in a superseding indictment.
Before the lawsuit was refiled Sunday, “Carter received a letter from Plaintiff’s counsel requesting a mediation to resolve this matter,” Buzbee wrote in the suit. In response to the letter, which NBC News has seen, Carter filed his own lawsuit against the accuṣẹ́r’s attorneys, Buzbee wrote in the suit.
“You have made a terrìble errør in judgement thinking that all ‘celebrities’ are the same,” Carter added in his statement Sunday. “I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have very strìct codes and honor. We protect children.”
The lawsuit claims that in 2000, when Doe was 13, Combs and Carter râped her at a house party after the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
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