Jay-Z files new motion to dismiss lawsuit accusing him of raping girl, 13
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Rapper alleges inconsistencies in woman’s accusation that he and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs assaulted her at 2000 afterparty. Jay-Z filed a new motion on Wednesday seeking to dismiss the lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges that he and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000 when she was 13 years old.
In the court filing, filed on Wednesday, the rapper and his lawyers reference what they claim are inconsistencies in the woman’s account of the events from that night. They also requested that the judge impose a monetary sanction on the woman’s lawyer, Anthony Buzbee, claiming that he failed to adequately investigate the woman’s allegations before filing the suit.
The allegations against Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, were made in an amended lawsuit filed last year. The woman alleges that in 2000, when she was 13 years old, she was drugged and raped by both Carter and Combs at an afterparty hosted by Combs after the MTV Music Awards, which took place in New York.
Carter has repeatedly denied the allegations against him, and criticized the lawsuit, calling it a “blackmail attempt” by the plaintiff’s lawyer. Combs has denied all of the allegations against him, including this one. He is currently in jail on federal sex trafficking charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
