Lawsuit alleges Jay-Z and Diddy raped 13-year-old girl

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The lawsuit was initially filed in October, and was refiled on Sunday to record Mr Carter as a defendant.

The BBC has contacted Mr Carter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, and his publicist for remark.

The authorized motion was filed beneath New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act, by a Texas-based lawyer, Tony Buzbee.

Mr Buzbee has filed a number of lawsuits in current months accusing Mr Combs of assault and rape – although none have offered the names of victims. The hip-hop artist is because of face a felony trial on 5 Might.

Mr Carter mentioned in a press release posted to social media: “My lawyer acquired a blackmail try, known as a requirement letter, from a ‘lawyer’ named Tony Buzbee.

“What he had calculated was the character of those allegations and the general public scrutiny would make me wish to settle.

“No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me wish to expose you for the fraud you might be in a VERY public style. So no, I cannot provide you with ONE RED PENNY!!”

Mr Carter added that he discovered the allegations “so heinous in nature that I implore you (Tony Buzbee) file a felony criticism, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such against the law towards a minor ought to be locked away, would you not agree?”

An announcement from Mr Combs’s authorized staff mentioned this amended lawsuit was the most recent in a sequence of “shameless publicity stunts, designed to extract funds from celebrities who worry having lies unfold about them, simply as lies have been unfold about Mr Combs”.

The assertion mentioned that the judicial course of would present Mr Combs to be harmless of all of the allegations towards him. He faces 30 different lawsuits.

Responding to the criticism, Mr Buzbee posted an image of himself to his Instagram as a youthful man in navy uniform, with a caption saying he had confronted “a coordinated and aggressive effort” to cease him from bringing the case ahead.

“I additionally will not permit anybody to scare my shoppers into silence,” he wrote. “Daylight is the very best disinfectant and I’m fairly sure the solar is coming.”

The accuser in Sunday’s authorized submitting, who’s recognized solely as “Jane Doe”, mentioned that in 2000, when she was 13, a good friend dropped her off on the VMAs at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in Manhattan.

She approached limousine drivers outdoors the venue to attempt to acquire entry to the present, in response to the authorized motion.

One driver instructed her that he was employed by Mr Combs and that she “match what Diddy was searching for”, says the lawsuit.

Later that night the chauffeur drove her to a celebration at a white home, in response to the authorized motion.