Rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accused in a lawsuit Sunday of raping a teenage girl after an awards show more than two decades ago along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop mogul facing federal sex trafficking charges and a wave of lawsuits alleging sexual assault.
The plaintiff in Sunday’s suit said she was 13 at the time of the alleged assault, according to the complaint, which was filed in federal court in New York’s Southern District.
The lawsuit was originally filed in October against Combs, and it was amended Sunday to include Carter as a defendant.
The plaintiff, who is identified as “Jane Doe” in the suit, said she met the men after the MTV Music Video Awards at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan in 2000. She’d been trying to get into the event — or to go to an after-party — but did not have a ticket, and she began approaching limousine drivers outside, according to the suit.
One of the drivers said he worked for Combs and told her she “fit what Diddy was looking for,” the suit alleges. After the driver took to her an after-party, the plaintiff says, she was told to sign what she believed was a nondisclosure agreement and given a drink that made her “woozy,” the suit alleges.
The plaintiff lay down in a room, the lawsuit says, and Combs and Carter entered. Carter removed her clothes, according to the suit, and raped her while Combs and a female celebrity who is not named in the document watched, it says.
Combs tried to force the plaintiff to perform oral sex, but she hit him in the neck and he stopped, the suit alleges. She grabbed her clothes, ran to a gas station and called her father, it says.
Carter called the allegations “idiotic” in a lengthy statement Sunday evening and alleged that Buzbee was engaged in unprofessional behavior.
“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?” Carter said in a statement to NBC News. “These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.”
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on whether the office is pursuing the case when shown NBC News’ report on the lawsuit.
JAY-Z’s legal team has accused attorney Tony Buzbee of coercing a former client to lodge false allegations against the Roc Nation founder.
According to a report TMZ published on Tuesday, December 10, attorney Alex Spiro filed a declaration in federal court to inform the judge about a tip his firm Quinn Emanuel received from a woman. The woman told an associate from Spiro’s firm about her recent experience with Tony Buzbee’s team after she tried to hire them to represent her sex trafficking and abuse case. She sought out Buzbee after he called on potential victims of Sean “Diddy” Combs to come forward, however, her allegations had nothing to do with Combs’ case.
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