Jay-Z locked in legal battle as alleged secret son demands a paternity test
Jay-Z has been confronted on multiple fronts over the past week. Not only has he been accused by an anonymous plaintiff of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, which he vehemently denies, but the Reasonable Doubt creator has also been asked to take a paternity test by an alleged “illegitimate son.”
The lawsuit that has been receiving the most attention involves not only Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter but sees him named alongside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and places the Brooklyn icon at a VMAs afterparty in 2000. However, it also alleges that there was a 13-year-old female who he propositioned, which Carter denies and he’s fiercely fighting the legal claims.
That said, he is now embroiled in another debacle as Rymir Satterthwaite is on a mission to prove that Jay is his biological father. Jay-Z’s allegedly illegitimate son has filed legal documents to pressure the emcee into taking a paternity test. However, the rapper is yet to respond.
Satterthwaite insists that he is the result of a fling Jay-Z had with Wanda Satterthwaite before the turn of the millennium. Prior to her death in 2019, the boy’s mother claimed she had had unprotected sex with the Roc-a-Fella co-founder on multiple occasions but asserted that when she was 16, she fell pregnant with Jay-Z’s child.
In a sworn affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com, Satterthwaite once insisted that she had sex with Carter in 1992 when she was 16 and he was 22. Her son, Rymir Satterthwaite, was born in the summer of 1993.
Although she allegedly had sexual relations with the then-drug dealer, in her affidavit, Rymir’s mother insisted she was in an on-and-off relationship with her high school sweetheart, Robert Graves. As such, in 2010, she asked a Pennsylvania court to order both men to take a paternity test to determine her son’s actual father. The case began with a pre-trial in Camden County, New Jersey, on August 13th, 2012.
The case was dismissed because Rymir Satterthwaite was over 18 at the time of the pre-trial, and, as specified in Pennsylvania state law, paternity must be established before a child reaches adulthood. As such, the court decided that the case should be tried under New Jersey law, which states that the age of ‘parentage’ is 23.
However, Jay-Z’s legal team then argued that the rapper should be exempt from taking a DNA test in New Jersey as he neither lived nor owned any property in the state – despite public records associating him with residences in Alpine and Newport.
The latest lawsuit alleges that the US court system conspired to deny the plaintiffs access to crucial legal documents, unjustly imposed sanctions without evidence, and obstructed their appeals. Rymir now insists that it is his constitutional right to know who his biological father is.