Jay-Z seeks punishment for Tony Buzbee amid request for rape case dismissal
Shawn ‘Jay-Z‘ Carter is attempting to have his sexual assault case thrown out while targeting Tony Buzbee, the lawyer of the woman who claims she was raped by Carter and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2000 at the age of 13. Carter filed a new motion on January 8th, highlighting “impossibilities and inconsistencies” in the woman’s story after she admitted to making mistakes during an interview.
Carter and his lawyer, Alex Spiro, are attempting to have U.S District Judge Analisa Torres force a monetary sanction against Buzbee, believing he failed to properly examine her story before filing the case.
“To sign a pleading accusing someone of such a horrific crime without adequately vetting the allegation — particularly when the defendant’s prominence means that the allegation will be repeated in headlines across the world — is deeply wrong and unethical,” Spiro said in court documents obtained by Rolling Stone.
He continued, “If lawyers do not face consequences for such a cavalier effort to destroy another person’s reputation and inflict emotional harm on his loved ones, that tactic will proliferate.”
In the lawsuit refiled on December 8th, the anonymous woman alleged that Carter removed her clothes, held her down and raped her while Combs and an unnamed female celebrity watched. She said Combs also raped her as Carter and the woman watched.
Responding to the motion in a statement, Buzbee said he wouldn’t be “bullied or intimidated” by Carter’s lawyer. “Mr. Spiro and his firm are paid by the hour. So, they file a lot of junk with the Court,” he said. “With each frantic filing, his team reeks of desperation. He and his team think the laws and rules don’t apply to them. They are flat wrong.”
Refusing to back down, he added, “They also think they can bully or intimidate counsel for victims by filing meritless and frivolous pleadings full of lies and half-truths. Again, they are dead wrong … We will address the utter lack of merit with his filing with the Court, rather than with the press.”
Carter previously sued Buzbee in another lawsuit, accusing the attorney of extortion and defamation for his actions across the case.