Inside the insane battle now exploding between Jay-Z and cigar-smoking lawyer who's accusing him of rape
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'A big, mean, ambitious, tenacious, fire-breathing Texas trial lawyer. Really big. Poster boy big.'. That's how the Texas Tribune once described Tony Buzbee, the attorney and class action specialist taking on Sean 'Diddy' Combs and now, sensationally, Jay-Z too over allegations that the rap superstars are child rapists.
![[Jay-Z has called Buzbee a 'deplorable human being' and 'an ambulance chaser in a cheap suit'. (Pictured: Buzbee and his second wife Frances).]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/17/93285109-14198747-image-a-16_1734543543099.jpg)
And he'll need to 'fire-breathing' given the ferocious and extended broadside that Jay-Z has already unleashed against him. Indeed, it's turning into quite a feud between the rap god and the courtroom star. On Thursday, it emerged that Buzbee is additionally suing Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation, and several of the star's lawyers for allegedly conspiring with, and paying, some of Buzbee's former clients to sue his law firm.
![[Combs (left), who is already behind bars facing federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, has also denied the rape allegation.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/18/93204449-14198747-image-m-30_1734374375579.jpg)
'The Defendants overstepped, got sloppy, and stupidly got caught in their illegal scheme on tape,' Buzbee said in a statement. Two lawsuits accusing Buzbee of fraud and other misconduct were filed by his former clients last week. Both plaintiffs accuse Buzbee and his firm of abuse and unethical conduct in the handling of two personal injury suits last year.
![[Unlike other class-action specialists, he isn't self-conscious about the vast sums his work earns him, happily posting pictures to social media variously on lavish vacations, smoking cigars, decked out in expensive jewelry and on his private jet.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/17/93208355-14198747-Unlike_other_class_action_specialists_he_isn_t_self_conscious_ab-a-1_1734541472722.jpg)
One of the lawsuits was filed by Matthew Ray Thompson. He claims Buzbee's firm intercepted monthly payments he was owed after being injured while working as a deckhand on a vessel that collided with a barge in a Houston, Texas ship channel in July 2023.
![[He also owns a yacht and a 7,000-acre Texas ranch with his second wife Frances (pictured), who is 24 years his junior, and has homes in New York and Montana. His four children, all now adults, come from his first wife Zoe.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/17/93285111-14198747-image-a-17_1734543550561.jpg)
'A big, mean, ambitious, tenacious, fire-breathing Texas trial lawyer. Really big. Poster boy big.' That's how the Texas Tribune once described Tony Buzbee (pictured), the attorney and class action specialist taking on Diddy and now, sensationally, Jay-Z too, over allegations that the rap superstars are child rapists.
![[In 2022, Buzbee put the five-bedroom, Tudor-style Houston mansion he'd shared with Zoe on the market for $27.5 million, a record for the city and only nine years after the couple had bought it for a reported $14 million.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/17/93285113-14198747-image-m-20_1734543563920.jpg)
