'Reeks Of Desperation': Jay-Z's Rape Accuser Did Not Admit Story Was False & 'She Won't', Jane Doe Lawyer Says After Rapper Files New Suit
'Pay attention here: They wanted a headline so in that new case they FALSELY claimed she recanted. She didn't. She hasn't. She won't,' Buzbee said today in a post on social media.
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Representatives for Jay-Z did not respond to request for comment on Buzbee's latest comments and the accusations they contain. Two days after Jay-Z and Beyoncé hosted their annual post-Oscars Gold Party at Los Angeles' iconic Chateau Marmont, the superstar's Roc Nation was also silent today about Buzbee's claims.
Perhaps they are recalibrating.
The online missive by the Houston-based Buzbee comes a day after Jay-Z sued Jane Doe and her attorneys in federal court for 'fabricated accusations' in the dismissed case.
In that filing seeing a jury trial and unspecified damages, Jay-Z's lawyers bluntly claimed that 'Doe has now voluntarily admitted directly to representatives of Mr. Carter that the story brought before the world in court and on global television was just that: a false, malicious story.' The complaint goes on to say: 'She has admitted that Mr. Carter did not assault her; and that indeed it was Buzbee himself – whom she met for the first time at a coffee shop in Houston on the day of her maliciously false NBC News interview – who pushed her to go forward with the false narrative of the assault by Mr. Carter in order to leverage a maximum payday.'
As you can see in the IG post from Buzbee, with its accompanying photograph of Oscar Wilde, the lawyer calls BS:
'They found my client who had filed suit,' Buzbee said in the Instagram post this morning. 'They threatened and harassed her. They harassed her family and friends. She has health issues. She has seizures. She withdrew her case.'
Among the allegations against Combs for vile and violent misconduct, this particular case started with a graphic October 20 lawsuit named Combs in the alleged rape of the then 13-year-old, with mention of a male 'Celebrity A 'and a female 'Celebrity B,' after the 2000 MTV VMAs.
On November 18, an Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan-represented anonymous 'celebrity and public figure who resides in Los Angeles' sued Buzbee for extortion in L.A. Superior Court. With rumors of the superstar identity of 'Celebrity A' swirling and more and more assault cases filed against Combs, on December 8, Buzbee refiled his initial suit claiming Jay-Z was 'Celebrity A.' Condemning the accusations and the assault of more than 20 years ago as 'heinous in nature,' Jay-Z also revealed himself in early December as the 'figure who resides in L.A.'
After months of bare-knuckle legal and media fighting from Jay-Z's longtime lawyer Alex Spiro and Buzbee, the whole thing came to a sudden end February 14 – at least that part of it.
But not for long. Building on his statement of February 14 that 'the trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed,' and his supposed loss of $20 million annually in business from Jane Doe's 'career-ending' claims, Jay-Z and his legal team soon went on offense. As Buzbee details in his post today: 'They then sued her, and me again, for defamation. (They had already sued me for defamation and most of that case is also being thrown out.)'
Kinda.
On February 26, a tentative ruling by LASC Judge Mark H. Epstein stripped Jay-Z's extortion claim against Buzbee from the West Coast case. However, the judge left in the defamation claim and likelihood of a trial if the parties don't settle soon-is.
Today's online retort by Buzbee is very much in line with the statement he put out Monday after Jay-Z filed his suit in federal court in Alabama, where Jane Doe resides.
'This new case which alleges the same thing as another one he pieces together and filed in Los Angeles also has no legal merit,' Buzbee said Monday. 'Shawn Carter's investigators have repeatedly harassed, threatened and harangued this poor woman for weeks trying to intimidate her and make her recant her story. She won't.'
Accused in a new filing this week of attacking and assault a woman at the Jay-Z-owned Times Square hotspot 40/40 Club in 2006, Combs continues to face nearly 30 assault and abuse civil suits from Buzbee-represented plaintiffs and others. The Bad Boys Records founder is behind bars at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been since his September 16 arrest on criminal charges. Falling short on multiple occasions to get released on $50 million bail, Combs is set to go to trial on racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges May 5.
Diddy, who has pleaded not guilty, is looking at life in prison if convicted.
BTW, if the photo of Wilde in Buzbee's post has you confused by its inclusion, let me put forth a theory. The lawyer did make an explicit explanation, but I doubt you'd lose a bet if you put your money on the connection being drawn to the sex scandal and brutal persecution that the Divine Oscar, often viewed as the wittiest man to ever live, suffered in the 1890s from the wealthy and well-connected Marquess of Queensberry. You connect the rest of the dots.
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