JAY-Z has yet again called for his rape lawsuit to be dismissed, citing inconsistencies in his accuser’s story and “unethical” conduct from her lawyer.
In a new filing submitted on Wednesday (January 8), Hov’s lawyer Alex Spiro pokes various holes in the woman’s account and calls her attorney, Tony Buzbee, to be sanctioned for failing to properly vet her claims before filing a lawsuit on her behalf.
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Arguing for his client’s innocence, Spiro points out that there is photographic evidence of JAY-Z attending a different event to the Diddy afterparty where the woman claims she was raped in 2000 at the age of 13.
He also claims that the woman’s father has “no recollection” of picking her up after she fled the party and notes that Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden, who she claims to have spoken to at the party, was in Chicago — a different city entirely — that evening performing a concert.
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“The fact that nearly every step in Plaintiff’s narrative […] turns out to be false or highly unlikely casts considerable doubt on Plaintiff’s allegation that Mr. Carter raped her, which he did not,” Spiro writes.
Turning his attention to Buzbee, he adds: “None of [the allegations] appear to have been subjected to even the most rudimentary diligence by the filing attorney.”
Spiro goes on to call Buzbee’s violations “deeply wrong” and “extreme” given the defamatory nature of the allegations, which have “inflict[ed] irreparable reputational harm” on JAY-Z and forced the rapper to “explain to his own children that he had been falsely accused of assaulting a child.”
Because of this, Spiro is asking the judge to impose monetary sanctions on Buzbee, proposing a reimbursement for Hov’s attorneys’ fees and costs.
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Buzbee has since hit back at the filing, saying to Rolling Stone: “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.
“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.”
