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Lawyer Tony Buzbee claims Jay Z ‘harassing’ his family after filing a civil lawsuit accusing the rapper of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.

“The New York Times contacted me to request my response to rapper Jay-Z’s claim that I was trying to extort and blackmail him,” Buzbee said in a statement via X on Tuesday, December 10. “My answer is quite simple. No one has made any threats. Jay Z’s claims are bogus and laughable.”

Buzbee further claimed that his company’s approach was not blackmail, but rather standard practice.

“Instead, our company sent a form letter requesting mediation on behalf of a woman who claims Jay-Z sexually assaulted her as a minor,” he continued. “The letter was vetted and approved by our client, who preferred to attempt a resolution without filing a lawsuit.”

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Buzbee called that approach “common” in such cases. “What you see happening now is a coordinated and desperate attempt to draw public attention to me personally in order to avoid attention to my clients’ allegations,” he wrote. “This effort included harassing my family and colleagues and even offering money to former clients to sue me – which is illegal.”

The lawyer added: “When an alleged perpetrator behaves in this manner, wildly claiming that a basic demand is ‘extortion’, and aggressively using the media to attack opposing counsel, while at the same time alleged victim ignores. , it reminds me of a famous line from Shakespeare: ‘The lady protests too much, I think.’”

Buzbee claimed he plans to address these issues in court. “Let me be clear: we will not be bullied or intimidated by these tricks,” he concluded. “And our customers will not be silenced.”

We weekly contacted Jay-Z’s rep for comment.

On Sunday, December 8, news broke that Jay-Z, 55, and Sean “Diddy” Combs were named as suspects in a civil lawsuit accusing them of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old. The woman, identified in the documents as Jane Doe, claimed the attack occurred at an afterparty of the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.

The lawsuit was initially filed in October and listed Diddy, also 55, as the sole defendant. It was resubmitted on Sunday with Jay-Z.

Jay-Z denied the allegations in a statement Us and referred to his wife, Beyonceand their three children, daughter Blue Ivy, 12, and twins Rumi and Sir, both 8.

He also directed his response at Buzbee. ‘You appear to be exploiting people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have made against me which, without the severity of the harm to children, would be laughable,” Jay-Z wrote on Sunday.

Jay-Z claimed that his lawyer had received a “blackmail attempt, a so-called demand letter” from Buzbee. “What he calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” the rapper said. “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!!’

While calling the allegations “horrendous,” Jay-Z noted that he “did a little bit of research” into Buzbee, who has filed lawsuits on behalf of many of Diddy’s alleged victims. Diddy is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being arrested in September on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. He has denied the allegations. Us has reached out to Diddy’s reps for comment.

“I have no idea how you became such a deplorable human being, Mr. Buzbee, but I promise I have seen your kind many times,” Jay-Z wrote. “I’m more than willing to deal with your type. You claim to be a Marine?! Marines are known for their bravery, you have no honor or dignity.”

In a separate statement to TMZ on Sunday, Buzbee claimed that the woman who accused Jay-Z of rape “never demanded a dime from him.”

“Sir. Carter previously denied that he was the one who sued me and my firm. He even filed his frivolous case under a pseudonym. What he doesn’t say in his recent statement is that my firm sent his attorney a demand letter on behalf of an alleged victim, and that victim never demanded a dime from him,” Buzbee told the newspaper, accusing Jay-Z of to be an anonymous male celebrity. who filed a lawsuit against him last month.

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Buzbee continued, “Instead, she merely sought confidential mediation. 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 accuser. His behavior has had the opposite effect. She is encouraged. I am very proud of her determination.”

Buzbee was sued last month by an unidentified male celebrity who claimed the attorney “blatantly attempted to extort exorbitant amounts of money from him or otherwise publicly level false, heinous allegations against him.” In the filing, the person alleged that Buzbee’s law firm tried to capitalize on the “explosive allegations against Sean Combs” by bringing in celebrities previously known to Diddy.

In his motion to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit, Jay-Z confirmed that he was the person who filed the extortion claim against Buzbee in November. In that filing, the rapper asked the court to dismiss Jane Doe’s civil lawsuit “for lack of subject matter jurisdiction due to plaintiff’s lack of standing,” according to court documents obtained by Us on Monday, December 9.

While asking the court to publicly reveal Jane Doe’s identity, Jay-Z claimed that Buzbee had waged an “outrageous campaign” against him for months.

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“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,” the document said. “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. .”

Jay-Z claimed that Buzbee made “baseless accusations” against him while “hiding behind the pseudonym ‘Jane Doe’.”

“These claims are not about justice for the victims. It is also not about giving victims of sexual violence a voice,” the file says. “Instead, they are just the next chapter in Attorney Buzbee’s sprawling racketeering saga – a saga whose purpose is low-key and measured in dollars.”

Buzbee responded significantly to Jay-Z’s firing on Monday Us in a statement: “Sending a simple demand letter and then filing a lawsuit is not extortion or blackmail. 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.”

Hours later, Jay-Z stepped out attend the premiere from Disney’s 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, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).