Set off Warning: This text accommodates mentions of rape and sexual assault
Jay-Z and Sean Diddy Combs have been accused of rape by a then 13-year-old plaintiff in 2000 throughout one of many latter’s notorious events after the MTV Video Music Awards that 12 months. Since Diddy is incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle on costs of intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for prostitution, the Jane Doe case was reopened.
This motion prompted Jay Z’s authorized crew to take motion towards the plaintiff. The singer’s lawyer Alex Spiro has allegedly requested the case to both be dismissed or for Jane Doe to disclose her actual identify and for the nameless Celeb B talked about within the grievance file to be unmasked.
That was not all, Spiro additionally went so far as accusing the plaintiff’s lawyer Tony Buzbee of unethically dealing with delicate instances like that of Doe. Spiro has despatched a declaration from colleague Mari Henderson to Choose Analisa Torres claiming the alternative facet’s authorized crew is nothing however Ambulance chasers.
“After detailing her experiences to an lawyer at Mr. Buzbee’s agency, he pressed for a connection to Mr. Combs, asking ‘at what level did you meet Diddy,’ despite the fact that she made clear that her case was unrelated to Mr. Combs,” Henderson’s assertion mentioned.
The assertion threw lawyer Buzbee — who’s recognized for representing dozens of nameless alleged victims of sexual abuse by Diddy — underneath the bus alleging that he tried to “coach” the plaintiff affirming that somebody allegedly “held her down and put medication in her mouth when that was not her expertise. She felt pressured to lie.”
Jay Z shared a handwritten assertion after the case was reopened. “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a prison grievance, not a civil one!!” he mentioned.
If you realize somebody who’s battling abuse, please attain out and report it. There are a number of helplines out there for a similar.