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  • February 18, 2025
Jay-Z is fighting back against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawsuit

Jay-Z is fighting back against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawsuit

Jay Z is fighting back against accusations that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old Sean “Diddy” Combsfiling new paperwork in Jane Doe’s case that aims to have the woman reveal her full name or dismiss the lawsuit entirely.

The 55-year-old, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was revealed on Sunday night as the unknown male celebrity who, according to a Jane Doe accuser, sexually assaulted her along with Combs at a VMA after-party in 2000. Carter issued an emphatic statement later that night denying the accusation. He also confirmed that he was the unnamed high-profile celebrity who sued the woman’s attorney Tony Buzbeeclaiming that the lawyer was “blatantly” trying to extort him.

“What he calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” Carter wrote in a statement on Roc Nation’s official social media accounts. “No sir. It had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you in a VERY public way for the fraud you are committing. So no, I won’t give you a single red cent!”

“Sending a simple demand letter and then filing a lawsuit is not extortion or blackmail,” Buzbee wrote in a statement to Rolling stone. “That is legal practice. We will respond to Mr. Carter’s application once we have reviewed it. We will not get bogged down in a silly sideshow that tries to put the lawyers at the center of very serious allegations against a courageous woman.”

In new court documents filed Monday, Carter’s high-powered attorney Alex Spiro argued for Jane Doe to file her complaint under her real name, claiming she had not provided legally sufficient reasons why she should be anonymized. “Sir. Carter deserves to know the identity of the person who is actually accusing him – in a sensational, publicity-seeking manner – of criminal conduct, demanding massive financial compensation and tarnishing a reputation he has built over decades,” Spiro wrote in the lawsuits.

Carter also seeks to dismiss the case entirely, claiming the court has no jurisdiction over the subject.

In a letter filed with the court Monday afternoon, Spiro asked Presiding U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres to expedite a hearing on Carter’s motion, “due to the highly sensitive nature of this case and the intense media attention” currently exists around the rapper. “To be clear, Mr. Carter is completely innocent,” Spiro added in the letter. “This is a shake-down. He is not referenced or referenced in any way in the criminal investigation into Mr. Combs. He is neither a target nor a person of interest in that investigation.”

And in hopes of ensuring a favorable outcome, Carter’s team requested that the case be referred to U.S. District Judge Jessica G.L. Clarke recently ruled in another civil case against Combs that a 17-year-old who accused Combs and two other men of raping her in 2003 could not continue anonymously. “I had hoped to use a pseudonym in pursuing justice for what happened to me as a teenager,” the woman, Anna Kane, said in a statement. Rolling stone on Friday. “Defendants’ demand that I use my name was an attempt to intimidate me, but I was not intimidated.”

The new court paperwork takes direct aim at Buzbee, who claims to represent more than 120 men and women in sexual assault cases against Combs and unnamed celebrities, and has filed 20 lawsuits against the jailed Bad Boy founder in the past three months. (There are currently more than 30 civil cases pending against Combs.) Carter’s lawyers claim the rapper has been a “target” of Buzbee’s “outrageous campaign” that has taken place “under the cover of darkness.”

“That campaign was cynical and intended to force the payment of an exorbitant sum of money – Defendant would have to pay X millions of dollars, regardless of the truth, otherwise,” Spiro wrote in the court filing. “When defendant refused to pay and instead took steps to establish his innocence, this unnamed plaintiff and her self-promoting counsel (whose name has appeared in headlines and at press conferences under the auspices of her representation) went to extraordinary lengths to find a prevent honest defense. . But those attempts also failed.”

Carter denied the woman’s claims in a lengthy statement, saying, “These allegations are so heinous in nature” and “whoever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked up.”

Jane Doe’s accuser, who filed her original complaint in October, claimed she wanted to attend the Video Music Awards in 2000 and had a friend drop her off at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan while she tried to find a way to get to the event to enter. Doe, who now lives in Alabama, claimed she met a driver claiming to work for Combs, who took her to the Bad Boy Entertainment founder’s afterparty.

Once at the party, the woman claimed she started feeling light-headed after taking a sip of her drink, claiming she was drugged. Upon finding a bedroom, Doe said she was trying to rest when Combs allegedly entered the room with Carter and a female celebrity, who is not named in the complaint. Combs “aggressively approached plaintiff with a crazy look in his eyes, grabbed her and said, ‘You’re ready to party!'” the lawsuit alleged. The men allegedly took turns attacking Doe while the female celebrity watched. The alleged encounter only ended when the woman claimed to have fought back and punched Combs in the neck.

Combs has denied Doe’s claims. “This amended complaint and the recent racketeering case against Mr. Buzbee exposes his barrage of lawsuits against Mr. Combs for what they are: shameless publicity stunts, designed to extract payments from celebrities who fear lies about them are spread, just as lies have been spread about them. spread across Mr. Combs,” Combs’ legal team said in a statement. “As his legal team has previously said, 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 sexually abused or trafficked anyone – male or female, adult or minor.”

This story was updated on December 9 at 3:50 PM EST, with Carter’s attorney asking for a judge to expedite the hearing in the case.