Jay-Z’s lawyer expects rape lawsuit to be dismissed: “This never happened”
Shawn ‘Jay-Z‘ Carter’s lawyer has doubled down on claims that his client is innocent after the rapper was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. His attorney, Alex Spiro, delivered a press briefing at the Roc Nation headquarters in New York City on December 16th.
In the lawsuit refiled on December 8th, an anonymous woman alleges that, at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000, Carter removed her clothes, held her down and raped her while Combs and an unnamed female celebrity watched. She says Combs also raped her, as Carter and the woman stood there.
The woman said she snuck out of the window of her Rochester home and got a ride to the VMAs from a friend. After allegedly watching the show on a jumbotron outside the venue, she claimed a limo driver took her to the house party where she was sexually assaulted. Following the alleged rape, she said that she left the property and called her father for a lift home from a petrol station nearby.
According to The Guardian, Spiro said that the woman’s story relied on an “impossible timeline” and a location that doesn’t exist, following claims that the assault happened at a “large white residence with a U-shaped driveway.” Photos only show Carter and Combs at a nightclub following the VMAs.
Spiro claimed that the allegation “defies credibility,” stating the woman would have had to drive five hours to get to New York, meaning she would have had to leave her home by 3pm. He also says that permits and photographs show there was no jumbotron outside the VMAs in 2000. In addition, her father says he doesn’t remember driving from Rochester to pick her up from New York City, and the friend who allegedly drove her has since died.
“It’s not just that this story is a lie and that it’s not true, it’s provably, demonstrably false,” Spiro said. “This never happened.” He added that he expects the lawsuit to be dismissed. “If it’s not, eventually this will all crumble, because it can’t possibly have happened mathematically,“ he insisted.
“You don’t even need witnesses. They don’t have any witnesses because this never happened and you don’t need witnesses because the time doesn’t work. There’s literally photographic evidence that proves that this could not have happened.”
Since the lawsuit was filed, the woman has admitted to making “some mistakes” in her recollection of that night, but stood by her allegations. “Courts exist to resolve factual disputes,” her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, said. “Our client remains adamant about her claim.”