Music mogul Jay-Z filed a lawsuit towards Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee, accusing him of defamation, civil extortion and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
This lawsuit instantly follows the dismissal of the case of Jane Doe who filed a civil swimsuit towards Jay, accusing him and Sean “Diddy” Combs of teaming as much as sexually assault her. She mentioned she was simply 13 in 2000 when she was drugged and raped by the 2 leisure impresarios throughout an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in New York.
The Jane Doe lawsuit was dismissed on Valentine’s Day
Now that his identify was cleared on Feb. 14, Jay-Z vows to precise authorized revenge on Buzbee for allegedly utilizing the unnamed girl to assassinate his character and attempting to blackmail him into giving up his wealth to squash the lawsuit.
“The frivolous, fictitious, and appalling allegations have been dismissed,” Jay-Z wrote in a press release. “The lawsuit was with out advantage and by no means going wherever.”
Jay-Z says Tony Buzbee tried to inflict most injury to his fame
In keeping with Individuals journal, Jay-Z mentioned Buzbee calculatedly and premeditatedly filed the Jane Doe lawsuit on Oct. 20, 2024, hours earlier than his daughter Blue Ivy’s Mufasa: The Lion King premiere which triggered him unimaginable “psychological anguish” and humiliation that may’t be calculated monetarily.
“I felt that Mr. Buzbee was inserting a gun to my head — that I both bow to his calls for or endure private and monetary smash,” he declared within the authorized paperwork obtained by Individuals.
The Roc Nation founder additionally asserts that he misplaced greater than $20 million in enterprise ventures as firms pulled again from him.
The lawsuit by Jane Doe was among the many class motion submitting by greater than 120 of Buzbee’s shoppers who’re searching for authorized redress towards Diddy for a plethora of crimes associated to intercourse trafficking, violence and compelled prostitution. Diddy stays in federal authorized custody within the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, N.Y., awaiting a trial in Could.
Jane Doe’s account crumbles underneath media scrutiny
The swimsuit was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice, which means that she may by no means file the swimsuit once more. It got here not lengthy after NBC Information uncovered a number of inconsistencies in Jane Doe’s account, together with the assertion that her father picked her up after the so-called assault. The daddy can not recall that ever occurring.
Jane Doe additionally mentioned she had spoken to singer Benji Madden on the afterparty. However Madden mentioned that might have been unattainable as a result of he was on tour within the Midwest along with his band Good Charlotte on the time and didn’t attend the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000, the 12 months she claimed she was assaulted.