Beyoncé foundation donates $100K to Tony Buzbee’s university following Jay-Z rape claims
Beyoncé’s BeyGood Foundation has donated $100,000 to the University of Houston Law Center. Coincidently, the Law Center is also the alma mater of Tony Buzbee, the lawyer representing a woman who claims that Bey’s husband, Shawn ‘Jay-Z‘ Carter, raped her with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs when she was 13 years old.
Her foundation donated the six-figure amount on December 11th. The money will be used to hire a director for the college’s Criminal Justice Clinic and allow more students to enrol.
“I am delighted that the BeyGood Foundation has made this very generous gift to the UH Law Center,” dean Leonard Baynes said in a statement to Billboard. “Not only will this funding help establish a full-time criminal justice clinic that provides pro bono legal services in our community, but it will also supercharge our already excellent criminal law and justice programming.”
“At UH Law, we envision a legal profession where ‘everyone has the opportunity to prosper,’ as BeyGood envisions, and we will achieve this vision by providing access to strong and effective legal representation in criminal proceedings.”
He added, “And together, through this gift, the BeyGood Foundation and UHLC will shepherd the next generation of criminal justice attorneys in the city of Houston, the state of Texas and the nation.”
Buzbee, who is representing over 120 victims from Combs’ alleged sexual assault cases, graduated from the University of Houston Law Center as summa cum laude in 1997, with the university describing him as “one of the most successful trial lawyers in the nation” in 2015.
The university even published a story about Texas Lawyer magazine, one of the state’s leading legal publications, selecting Buzbee as its “2015 Attorney of the Year.”
One of his latest lawsuits, filed on December 8th, accuses Carter of sexual assault at an after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards. The suit claims he removed a woman’s clothes, held her down and raped her while Combs and a female celebrity watched. She says Combs also raped her, as Carter and the woman observed.
Carter immediately denied the allegations, alleging Buzbee made a “terrible error in judgment” and told him that he was looking forward to “showing you just how different I am.”
He also said, “What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle. No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a very public fashion. So no, I will not give you one red penny!”