Judge rejects Jay-Z’s attempt to obtain legal fees from alleged son
Jay-Z‘s alleged son withdrew his paternity lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on May 22nd. Since then, the rapper has tried and failed to receive legal fees from the 31-year-old.
Hov reportedly tried to get his legal fees paid after the suit was dropped, but the judge refused because his team didn’t explain why he should pay. As a result, Jay has 30 days to provide an argument.
AllHipHop reported the news after Rymir Satterthwaite attempted to get Jay-Z to take a DNA test but decided to drop his lawsuit.
His withdrawal filing read, “Plaintiff Rymire Satterthwaite Pro Se submits this notice of withdrawal from this complaint as a party to the action. The defendants have not filed an answer to the above complaint.”
Despite the legal move, Satterthwaite took to social media to claim that he isn’t backing down in his fight to prove the alleged truth.
“I have not stopped my fight,” he said on Instagram. “I did withdraw my case. It’s for a reason, y’all. These judges, these lawyers, these celebrity people. They try to use all different types of tactics and call it what you want, bully tactics, and different types of stuff, to, you know, slow it down and just change the narrative. So it’s like, ‘Hey, we gotta step back and play chess, not checkers.’”
The filing from Satterthwaite last month read, “Plaintiff Rymire Satterthwaite Pro Se submits this notice of withdrawal from this complaint as a party to the action. The defendants have not filed an answer to the above complaint.”
Satterthwaite claimed Jay was attempting to silence him. His initial complaint read, “[Jay-Z] is the biological father of Satterthwaite.” He alleges his late mother, Wanda, had relations with Jay and that he has received “unrelenting efforts by [Jay-Z] and his enablers to suppress the truth and silence those who dared to speak it.”
In response to the claim, Jay’s lawyers said, “The fabricated allegations and claims have been addressed – and rejected — in multiple other courts and [Satterthwaite’s] continued harassment of [Jay-Z] and disregard of those orders has already resulted in a contempt order.”