Jay-Z Condemns Rape Of Minor Suit As “Sham” That Should Be Dismissed; Plaintiff’s Lawyer Playing Fast & Loose With Facts & Rules, Rapper Says

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With less than week to go before Beyoncé is set to headline the halftime show at Netflix and the NFL’s Christmas Day face-off between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans, the next few days could prove pivotal in Jay-Z’s attempt to end the rape case against him and Sean “Diddy” Combs for the alleged assault of a 13-year-old girl in 2000.

Based in no small part on a NBC News interview the plaintiff gave late last week throwing parts of her own case under the bus, the ’99 Problems’ rapper’s longtime lawyer called the whole sordid matter a “sham’ in a letter late last week to the judge in the case.

While nothing has shown up on the docket yet, Jay-Z’s longtime attorney Alex Spiro promised just before the weekend to file another motion “immediately” to get the thing dismissed.

Today. seeking to  disassociate his client from the much accused and incarcerated sex trafficking charged Combs, Spiro did appear at the NYC HQ of the Jay-Z founded Roc Nation to reiterate to assembled media much of what he said in the December 13 letter. “When pressed, the Plaintiff admitted she was ‘guessing’ about key details, including the time it took to reach the venue,” writes Spiro of the small screen sit-down in the December 13 letter to the federal judge overseeing the case. “She admits she has no single corroborating witness over the last 24 years.” “These stunning revelations make clear that the complaint filed by plaintiffs’ attorney, Anthony Buzbee, therefore had no factual basis whatsoever,” the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner added. “Even Mr.