Jay-Z’s lawyer asks judge to deny sexual assault accuser’s request to remain anonymous
A lawyer for Shawn Carter, the hip-hop mogul known as Jay-Z, asked a judge Monday to deny a request to remain anonymous from the woman who has accused Carter of raping her in 2000 when she was a 13-year-old girl, allegedly along with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
A lawyer for Shawn Carter, the hip-hop mogul known as Jay-Z, asked a judge Monday to deny a request to remain anonymous from the woman who has accused Carter of raping her in 2000 when she was a 13-year-old girl, allegedly along with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
In a court filing, Carter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued that the accuser’s decision to file a lawsuit against Carter under the name “Jane Doe” was “inconsistent with a genuine effort to determine the truth or falsity of these allegations as opposed to an effort to procure a quick, extortionate settlement.”
Spiro said that Carter was “respectfully seeking either dismissal of the allegations or disclosure of the Plaintiff’s identity.”
“It is not consistent with justice, fairness or the rules governing federal proceedings for the Plaintiff and her counsel to smear Defendant’s good name in ways that are calculated to feed media coverage and thus inflict maximum public relations damage while the core fact of Plaintiff’s identity … remains wholly hidden from view,” Spiro added.
Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee, who filed the lawsuit against Carter and Combs, responded to Spiro’s motion in an interview Monday with NBC News. “Anyone that suggests that a demand letter, especially the one that I sent, is extortion or blackmail, is foolish,” Buzbee said.
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