Jay-Z asks court docket to dismiss rape lawsuit over inconsistencies

A lawyer for rapper Jay-Z has requested a court docket to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him, together with Sean “Diddy” Combs, of raping a 13-year-old woman in 2000, after inconsistencies emerged in her allegation.

An Alabama lady, named within the authorized motion by the pseudonym Jane Doe, has accused the musicians of drugging and attacking her at a home social gathering following the MTV Video Music Awards.

She claimed she spoke with one movie star on the social gathering, although his consultant stated he was on tour on the time. Her father instructed NBC Information he can not recall driving 5 hours to choose her up after the alleged assault, as she says.

In an interview with NBC, the girl acknowledged making “some errors” in her accusation, however stated she stood by her declare.

Rape assist suppliers say it’s common for victims of such assaults to misremember some particulars, particularly if they’ve been allegedly drugged.

The litigation is a part of dozens of sexual assault lawsuits filed in opposition to Mr Combs, who’s in custody awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking fees in New York. He was denied bail a 3rd time final month. Mr Combs denies all of the allegations.

Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, requested the court docket to dismiss Jane Doe’s case, saying in a press release to the BBC: “It’s beautiful {that a} lawyer wouldn’t solely file such a severe grievance with out correct vetting, however would make issues worse by additional peddling this false story within the press.”

The rapper, whose actual identify is Shawn Carter, issued a press release to the BBC saying the lawyer, Tony Buzbee, had filed the authorized motion “in pursuit of cash and fame”.

“This incident did not occur and but he filed it in court docket and doubled down within the press,” his assertion stated.

“True Justice is coming. We combat FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over earlier than it started. This 1-800 lawyer does not notice it but, however, quickly.”

The BBC is contacting Mr Combs’s lawyer for remark.

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Mr Buzbee stated his agency was persevering with to vet his shopper’s claims.

The lady says within the lawsuit a waitress provided her a drink on the social gathering that made her really feel “woozy”, so she went right into a room to lie down.

Quickly afterwards, the authorized motion says, Mr Combs and Mr Carter entered the room with a feminine movie star, described as Celeb B.

The authorized motion says Mr Carter held her down and raped her, earlier than Mr Combs did the identical, all whereas Celeb B watched.

Nonetheless, photographs from that night present Jay-Z and Mr Combs at a distinct location to the one described by the accuser. It isn’t clear if their whereabouts for your entire night have been accounted for.

The lady claimed in her allegation that she had spoken with musicians Benji and Joel Madden, who she stated had been amongst a variety of celebrities on the home social gathering. She doesn’t accuse them of any wrongdoing.

However a consultant for the Maddens instructed NBC the brothers had been on tour within the Midwest in the course of the VMAs that 12 months.

The lady’s father instructed NBC he does not keep in mind driving greater than 5 hours to choose up his daughter after her alleged ordeal.

“I really feel like I might do not forget that, and I do not,” he stated.

The lady’s lawyer, Mr Buzbee, instructed NBC that his shopper stands by her declare.

“Our shopper stays fiercely adamant that what she has said is true, to the perfect of her reminiscence,” he stated.

“We are going to proceed to vet her claims and gather corroborating knowledge to the extent it exists.

“As a result of we’ve got interrogated her intensely, she has even agreed to undergo a polygraph. I’ve by no means had a shopper recommend that earlier than.”

The lady, who’s now 38 and a mother-of-two, instructed NBC within the interview from Houston, Texas: “You need to by no means let what any person else did destroy or run your life.

“I simply hope I may give others the energy to return ahead like I got here ahead.”

Erinn Robinson, director of media relations for the Rape, Abuse & Incest Nationwide Community (RAINN), stated “trauma like rape can have each short- and long-term results on the mind that affect choice making and reminiscence.”

“Recall of reminiscences could also be fragmented, and particulars might not be recalled in the correct order,” she instructed the BBC.

Ms Robinson stated these results are frequent and stated police departments are educated to cope with such instances with a purpose to cut back the probability of allegations being dismissed as a result of the sufferer’s reminiscence appears disjointed or inconsistent.