Jay-Z’s lawyer argues rape allegation is too old to pursue
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Latest efforts by rapper’s lawyer come after a judge rejected attempts to have the plaintiff’s anonymity lifted. Jay-Z is continuing to battle the rape allegations made against him, days after a judge refused his request to have the case thrown out.
New York-based federal judge Analisa Torres ruled on Thursday (26 December) that the Alabama woman who claims she was raped by Jay-Z and fellow rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 could proceed anonymously. She also chastised the lawyer representing Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, for what she described as combative motions and “inflammatory language” against the plaintiff’s lawyer.
Spiro argues that “any viable [Gender-Motivated Violence] Law claim is time-barred under New York’s Child Victims Act (CVA), which preempts Plaintiff’s GMV Law claim,” in a two-page letter to Judge Torres on Monday (30 December). Noting that the CVA was amended in 2019 with an additional 30 months, he continues: “The courts in this District, however, have recognised that the CVA’s revival period preempts the GMV Law’s overlapping and extended one”. Spiro’s point is that Jane Doe and her lawyer Tony Buzbee are three years too late with their lawsuit.
Jane Doe’s amended lawsuit alleged that she was raped by Jay-Z and Combs at an after-party for the MTV Music Awards, after befriending a limo driver outside the ceremony who drove her there. She said she travelled to New York after sneaking out of a window of her home in Rochester and hitching a ride from a friend, who has since died.
