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The rapper Jay Z is alleged to have raped a 13-year-old lady over 20 years in the past, based on a brand new lawsuit.
NBC Information reports that the lawsuit, which was first filed in October within the Southern District of New York, initially listed the embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Coombs because the defendant.
Nonetheless, the lawsuit was refiled on Sunday to incorporate Jay Z, whose actual identify is Shawn Corey Carter.
BREAKING: Jay-Z accused of r*ping a 13-year-old girI with Diddy in 2000 – NBC
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The grievance alleges that Carter and Combs assaulted the lady at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty when she was barely a young person.
It claims that after attempting to achieve entry to the occasion for which she didn’t have a ticket, the lady approached a number of limousine drivers to attempt to wangle her approach in.
NBC explains:
The lawsuit says a pal dropped her off on the VMAs at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. She didn’t have a ticket and approached varied limousine drivers to aim to achieve entry to the present or an after occasion. One driver, the lawsuit mentioned, advised her that he labored for Combs and she or he “match what Diddy was searching for.” He invited her to a celebration following the present and advised her to return to his automotive later within the night after he transported Carter and Combs, the go well with mentioned.
Later, the driving force picked her up, the go well with mentioned, and after 20 minutes arrived at a white home with a U-shaped driveway. She needed to signal a doc she believed was a non-disclosure settlement on arrival — and didn’t obtain a replica — to enter the occasion the go well with mentioned was stuffed with celebrities and other people doing marijuana and cocaine.
She was provided a drink that made her really feel “woozy, lightheaded and felt [like] she wanted to lie down,” the go well with mentioned. She went right into a room to relaxation. Shortly after, the go well with mentioned Combs and Carter entered the room with Combs saying, “You might be able to occasion!”
That’s when she alleges that Carter eliminated her garments and held her down and raped her whereas Combs and one other unnamed feminine superstar watched. She says Combs additionally raped her as Carter and the girl seemed on.
The go well with says she was ready to withstand being pressured to carry out oral intercourse on Combs by hitting him within the neck and that he “stopped.” After the alleged assault, the go well with says, she “grabbed her garments” and left. She made her solution to a gasoline station the place she referred to as her father.
Carter is broadly thought to be maybe essentially the most profitable rap artist of all time and such allegations could possibly be crushing to his popularity.
Collectively along with his spouse Beyonce Knowles, the couple are often called one among Hollywood’s final energy {couples} with a net worth of billions of {dollars}.
The accuser doesn’t at present seem like in search of legal prices, however moderately an unspecified quantity of damages as a part of a civil lawsuit.
Such stunning allegations will place even higher scrutiny on Combs and his interior circle, elevating questions on who else was concerned and to what extent these near him enabled his crimes.
The 55-year-old is at present going through prices of intercourse trafficking, kidnapping, bodily abuse, bribery and youngster abuse. He has denied all prices and has pledged to show his innocence.
Jay-Z’s authorized workforce launched an announcement in response to the civil lawsuit.
“My lawyer acquired a blackmail try, referred to as a requirement letter, from a “lawyer” named Tony Buzbee.
What he had calculated was the character of those allegations and the general public scrutiny would make me wish to settle.
No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me wish to expose you for the fraud you’re in a VERY public trend. So no, I can’t provide you with ONE RED PENNY!!
These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a legal grievance, not a civil one!!
Whomever would commit such against the law towards a minor must be locked away, would you not agree?
These alleged victims would deserve actual justice if that have been the case.
This lawyer, who I’ve carried out a little bit of analysis on, appears to have a sample of those kind of theatrics!
I do not know how you’ve come to be such a deplorable human Mr. Buzbee, however I promise you I’ve seen your sort many occasions over. I’m greater than ready to cope with your kind. You declare to be a marine?! Marines are identified for his or her valor, you’ve neither honor nor dignity.
My solely heartbreak is for my household. My spouse and I must sit our kids down, one among whom is on the age the place her buddies will certainly see the press and ask questions in regards to the nature of those claims, and clarify the cruelty and greed of individuals. I mourn one more lack of innocence. Youngsters mustn’t must endure such at their younger age. It’s unfair to must attempt to perceive inexplicable levels of malice meant to destroy households and human spirit.
My coronary heart and assist goes out to true victims on the planet, who’ve to observe how their life story is wearing costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in an inexpensive go well with.
You may have made a horrible error in judgement pondering that every one “celebrities” are the identical. I’m not out of your world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the challenge of Brooklyn. We don’t play these kinds of video games.
We’ve very strict codes and honor. We shield youngsters, you appear to use folks for private achieve.
Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, faux physics, will consider the idiotic claims you’ve levied towards me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to children, can be laughable.
I look ahead to exhibiting you simply how totally different I’m.”
— Roc Nation (@RocNation) December 9, 2024
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