Rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs He has been accused in a civil suit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
The lawsuit, which was originally filed in October and was re-filed in New York on Sunday to add Jay-Z to the list of defendants, alleges that the victim, identified only as a woman Hai, who now lives in Alabama, was raped by both men. Video Music Awards After Party.
Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, called the allegations a “blackmail attempt” in a statement. Combs' attorney denied the allegations.
The lawsuit alleges that the girl went to the VMAs in New York City hoping to get in without a ticket, but instead was invited to an after-party by a limo driver who claimed to work for Combs. The lawsuit claims the limo driver allegedly took her to the party, where she was asked to sign something he believed was a nondisclosure agreement.
While inside, the lawsuit alleges, “After attempting to speak to several celebrities, Plaintiff accepted a drink from one of the waitresses roaming the crowd.” The lawsuit claims that after drinking “a portion of the beverage” she began feeling “lightheaded and dizzy” and went to find a place to lie down. The lawsuit claims she went to a room that contained a bed and shortly after lying down, Combs, Carter and an unnamed female celebrity, whom the alleged victim recognized, entered the room.
The lawsuit alleges that Carter grabbed her and raped her while Combs and the female celebrity watched. After this, Combs also raped her while Carter and the woman watched, the lawsuit claims. According to the lawsuit, Combs attempted to force the girl to have oral sex with him, but she managed to punch him, pull her clothes, wrap them around herself and run away.
“Although there were still other guests present at the party, no one noticed Plaintiff's distress or attempted to help her,” the lawsuit alleges.
According to the lawsuit, after leaving the house and putting her clothes back on, the girl managed to run back to a gas station she saw on the way to the party, where a clerk “noticed her distress and allowed her to use the phone.” He then allegedly used the phone to call his father and pick him up.
The woman is seeking unspecified damages.
In response to the filing, Carter said in a statement, “My attorney received what is called a demand letter, an attempted blackmail, from an 'attorney' named Tony Buzbee. What he calculated was the nature of these allegations. And there will be a public investigation. No sir, it had the opposite effect! It prompted me to expose your fraud publicly, so no, I will not give you a single red penny!!”
“Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, would believe the idiotic claims you have leveled against me, which would be ridiculous if not for the seriousness of the harm they cause to children,” the statement said.
Tenny Geragos, an attorney representing Combs, said in a statement, “This amended complaint and the recent extortion lawsuit against Mr. Buzbee highlight the litany of lawsuits he faces against Mr. Combs: shameless publicity stunts, payoffs from celebrities. Designed to extort those who fear the spread of lies about themselves, such as the lies spread about Mr. Combs, as his legal team has previously said, Mr. Combs has full confidence in the facts in court and the integrity of the judicial process to prevail: Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone – male or female, adult or minor.”
Buzbee was sued last month by an unnamed male celebrity, who alleged that the lawyer tried to extort payment by threatening to file sexual harassment charges, which the celebrity has denied. Buzbee, in turn, denied the extortion allegations.
Buzbee did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment. On Sunday night he posted on Instagram that there has been a “coordinated and aggressive effort” against him including “filing frivolous cases against me and my law firm, defaming me with outrageous claims to anyone who will listen and mysterious “Includes stalking people.” Me and my family.”
“The public will see through this attempt to defame me and my clients and the truth will come out. I will not allow anyone to silence my clients by intimidating them,” Buzbee wrote.
Combs is currently in custody in New York as he awaits trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His attempts to obtain bail have been rejected several times.
had combs arrested in september And he was charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution, with prosecutors accusing him of using his business empire to engage in repeated abuses over the years. He has declared himself innocent of the charges.