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Content material warning: This story discusses allegations of rape.
Jay-Z is standing his floor.
After an Alabama lady who lately filed a rape lawsuit in opposition to him and Sean “Diddy” Combs addressed inconsistencies in her story, the “99 Issues” rapper — born Shawn Carter — put her legal professional on blast for submitting a “false criticism in opposition to me within the pursuit of cash and fame.”
“This incident didn’t occur,” Carter mentioned in a Dec. 13 assertion to E! Information. “True Justice is coming. We combat FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over earlier than it started.”
His legal professional Alex Spiro added, “It’s beautiful {that a} lawyer wouldn’t solely file such a severe criticism with out correct vetting, however would make issues worse by additional peddling this false story within the press.”
The girl’s legal professional Tony Buzbee informed NBC Information that her case was beforehand vetted by one other legislation agency and that his agency does their “finest” to vet every declare they make.
Within the lawsuit, the girl alleged that Carter and Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000 at a New York after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards. She mentioned in her submitting that she ran to a close-by gasoline station after the alleged assault and referred to as her dad for a trip house.
Jay-Z, the star rapper and entrepreneur whose actual identify is Shawn Carter, has responded after he was accused in a lawsuit on Sunday of allegedly raping a 13-year-old lady together with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000.
Nevertheless, in an NBC Information investigative report revealed Dec. 13, her father mentioned he doesn’t recall selecting her up following the alleged incident. Moreover, a star the girl alleged to have spoken to on the social gathering informed NBC Information that he was not in New York at the moment.
Whereas the inconsistencies don’t essentially imply the allegations are false, the girl mentioned in a Dec. 13 interview that she “could have made a mistake in figuring out.”
“Actually, what’s the clearest is what occurred to me and [the] route that I took to what occurred to me,” she informed NBC Information, after the inconsistencies had been laid out. “Not the entire faces there are as clear.”
Nonetheless, the girl stands by her general allegations, together with her legal professional Buzbee saying that it is attainable her father misremembered the evening in query.
“His daughter explains that he was in no state to recollect throughout that cut-off date on account of private points he was having then,” Buzbee informed NBC Information. “We’re speaking a couple of time-frame greater than twenty years in the past.”
In the meantime, an legal professional for Combs — who’s been accused of sexual assault in over 100 civil lawsuits — has mentioned that the rap mogul maintains his innocence.
“He can’t handle each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be a reckless media circus,” Erica Wolff shared in an Oct. 1 assertion to E! Information. “That mentioned, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors.”
(E! and NBC Information are each a part of the NBCUniversal household.)
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