Jay-Z files new motion to dismiss lawsuit accusing him of raping 13-year-old girl

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Jay-Z has filed a new motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of raping a 13-year-old girl.Filed on Wednesday (January 8), the rapper – whose real name is Shawn Carter – and his legal team highlighted what they called inconsistencies in the woman’s account.The lawsuit against Carter was first filed back in December by a woman who alleges that Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sexually assaulted her at a VMAs party in 2000, when she was 13-years-old.Carter issued a statement via Roc Nation, denying all accusations and calling them “heinous in nature”.

He also dismissed them as a “blackmail attempt” by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Anthony Buzbee.Combs has consistently denied all allegations raised against him, including this one, and is currently in jail on sex trafficking charges.In the latest filing by Carter, the rapper and his lawyers requested a monetary sanction be placed on Buzbee, alleging that he failed to adequately investigate the woman’s allegations before he filed the lawsuit.They also cited an interview the woman gave to NBC News last year, in which she stood by her allegations although admitted to “some mistakes” in her account when it came to naming witnesses.For example, the woman alleged that she spoke to a musician at the event and that her father picked her up after the alleged sexual assault, however, a representative for the musician said he was not in New York at the time, and her father said he had no recollection of collecting her.Carter’s legal team also pointed out what they consider impossibilities in the claims and argued that “the fact that nearly every step in Plaintiff’s narrative – from her arrival at the VMAs to her interactions with the limousine driver and celebrities to the ride with her father.