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Sherif Ziadat/Getty Imageslawyer Tony Buzbee He claims Jay Z He is “harassing” his family after filing a civil lawsuit accusing the rapper of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
“the New York Times Buzbee said in a statement on his website: “He called me to ask for my response to rapper Jay-Z’s claim that I tried to blackmail him.” X On Tuesday, December 10th. “My answer is very clear. No one made any threats. Jay-Z's assertions are false and laughable.
Buzbee went on to claim that his company's approach was not extortion but standard practice.
“Instead, our firm sent a standard demand letter requesting mediation on behalf of a woman who alleges that Jay-Z sexually assaulted her when she was a minor,” he continued. “The letter has been vetted and approved by our client, who would have preferred to try to reach a resolution without filing a lawsuit.”
Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit to dismiss the civil lawsuit that accused him of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, December 9, Jay-Z, 55, asked the court to dismiss Jane's civil lawsuit. Doe “for lack of jurisdiction due to plaintiff's lack of standing.” “The plaintiff has (…)
Buzbee called this approach “common” in those types of cases. “What you are seeing now is a coordinated and desperate effort to focus public attention on me personally to avoid paying attention to the allegations being made by my client,” he wrote. “These efforts included harassing my family and colleagues and even offering my former clients money to sue me – which is illegal.”
“When the alleged perpetrator acts in this manner, vehemently asserts that the underlying demand letter is 'blackmail,' and aggressively uses the media to attack the opposing attorney while at the same time ignoring the allegations made by the alleged victim,” the attorney added. This reminds me of a famous line from Shakespeare: “I think the lady protests too much.”
Buzbee claimed he intends to address these issues in court. “Let me be clear: we will not be bullied or intimidated by these scammers,” he concluded. “And our customers will not be silenced.”
Us Weekly I have reached out to Jay-Z's rep for comment.
News broke on Sunday, December 8 that Jay-Z, 55, and Sean “Diddy” Combs He was Named as defendants In a civil suit she accused them of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old child. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the documents, claimed the assault occurred at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
The lawsuit was initially filed in October and listed Diddy, also 55, as the sole defendant. It was repackaged on Sunday to include Jay-Z.
Jay-Z denied the allegations in a statement we He pointed to his wife BeyoncéAnd their three children, daughter Blue Ivy, 12, and twins Rumi and Sir, both 8.
He also addressed his response to Buzbee. “You appear to be exploiting people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists and fake physics would believe the stupid claims you have made against me, which if it were not for the seriousness of harm to children, would be laughable,” Jay-Z wrote on Sunday.
Jay-Z claimed that his lawyer received an “extortion attempt called a demand letter” from Buzbee. “What I figured was the nature of these allegations, and public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” the rapper said. “No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose your scam in a very public way. So no, I won't give you a single red penny!!
While Jay-Z called the allegations “outrageous,” he noted that he “did a little research” on Buzbee, who has filed lawsuits on behalf of several of Diddy's alleged victims. Diddy is incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being arrested in September on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. He denied these accusations. we I have reached out to Diddy's representatives for comment.
“I have no idea how you became such a miserable human, Mr. Buzbee, but I promise I've seen people like you many times,” Jay-Z wrote. “I am more than prepared to deal with your kind. You claim to be a Marine?! Marines are known for their bravery, you have neither honor nor dignity.”
In a separate statement to TMZ on Sunday, Buzbee claimed that the woman who accused Jay-Z of rape “never asked him for a dime.”
“Mr. Carter has previously denied that he was the one who filed a lawsuit against me and my company. He even filed his frivolous lawsuit under a pseudonym. What he failed to say in his latest statement is that my company sent his attorney a demand letter on behalf of an alleged victim and that that victim did not request Never a penny from him, accusing Jay-Z of being the anonymous male celebrity who filed a lawsuit against him last month.
Jay-Z referenced his wife, Beyoncé, and their three children in a statement denying the rape allegations made against him in a civil lawsuit. Jay-Z, 55, is accused in the lawsuit, which was refiled on Sunday, December 8, of allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs. The accused who (…)
“Instead, I only requested confidential mediation,” Buzbee continued. Since I sent the letter on her behalf, Mr. Carter has not only sued me, but has attempted to bully and harass me and this plaintiff. His behavior had the opposite effect. I was encouraged. “I am very proud of her design.”
Buzbee was sued last month by a male celebrity who claimed the attorney was “shamelessly trying to extort exorbitant sums of money from him or publicly make false horrific allegations against him.” In the filing, the person alleged that Buzbee's law firm was trying to capitalize on the “explosive allegations against Sean Combs” by hiring celebrities who previously knew Diddy.
In his motion to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit, Jay-Z asserted that he was the person who filed the extortion lawsuit in November against Buzbee. In that lawsuit, the rapper asked the court to dismiss Jane Doe's civil lawsuit “for lack of jurisdiction due to plaintiff's lack of standing,” according to court documents he obtained. we Monday 9 December.
While asking the court to publicly reveal Jane Doe's identity, Jay-Z claimed that Buzbee created a “blackmail campaign” against him for months.
Jay-Z made his first public appearance after being accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs in the early 2000s. The 55-year-old rapper stepped out, alongside his wife Beyoncé, their daughter Blue Ivy Carter, and his mother-in-law Tina Knowles, at the premiere of Disney's Mufasa in Hollywood, California, on Monday, December (…)
“That campaign was cynical and designed to force the defendant to pay an exorbitant sum of money — the defendant would have to pay X millions of dollars regardless of the truth, or else,” the document said. “When the defendant refused to plead and instead took action to prove his innocence, this unnamed plaintiff and her self-promoting attorney (whose name appeared in headlines and in press conferences under the auspices of her representation) went to extraordinary lengths to close down a fair defense.”
Jay-Z claimed that Buzbee “made baseless accusations” against him while “hiding behind the alias 'Jane Doe'.”
“These allegations are not about justice for victims. Nor are they about giving victims of sexual violence a voice. “Instead, they are just the next chapter in Attorney Buzbee’s sprawling racketeering saga — a saga whose goal is so vile and measured in dollars.”
Buzbee responded to Jay-Z's firing on Monday, saying: we In a statement, “Sending a basic litigation demand letter and then filing a lawsuit is not extortion or extortion. This is legal practice. We will respond to Mr. Carter's file once we review it. We will not get involved in a ridiculous sideshow that attempts to make lawyers the center of very serious allegations made by a brave woman.
Hours later, Jay-Z came out Attend the first show From Disney Mufasa In Hollywood, California, with Beyoncé, 43, Blue Ivy, and His mother-in-law, Tina Knowles.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, call National Sexual Assault Hotline At 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
