Billionaire Jay-Z is a bully who has “shrilly maintained an entitlement to different rules and faster procedures” against a Jane Doe who claims the ‘Picasso, Baby’ rapper, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and an unnamed female celebrity raped her in 2000 when she was 13-years-old, says the accuser’s lawyer in the latest war of words between the parties in the federal docket.
In what is starting to sound a lot like the MCU of lawsuits where each side is perpetually teasing or declaring what is coming next, Tony Buzbee’s letter Friday to Judge Analisa Torrie caps the latest phase of an action where Combs has become almost a sideshow to the main action of the Houston-based plaintiff’s lawyer, the rapper born Shawn Carter and Jay-Z’s long time legal sideman Alex Spiro throwing down on each other daily with pledges to be very street and very much a Marine. “In each instance, the goal has been to blur the facts and rush a decision,” asserts Buzbee of the tactics employed by the hip-hop legend and the Quinn Emanuel partner in the three-page correspondence today to New York-based Judge Torres. “But there is aggressive advocacy and then there is bad faith.
Mr. Carter’s latest tactics, much like his open threat to refer Plaintiff’s attorneys for disciplinary action, cross that line.” Mocking Jay-Z and the acerbic Spiro for being “histrionic,” Buzbee, who is working on most of the dozens of civil sexual assault cases against the incarcerated Combs, says “outside of the courtroom, Mr.
Carter has employed tactics of intimidation and harassment even more extreme, tortious, and quite possibly illegal.” Going on in the letter to claim the ’99 Problems’ defendant “twists Plaintiff’s words” over portions of her recollection on the post-MTV VMAs night
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