Jay-Z clearly has no intention of walking away from 2024 without continuing to put up a fight against rape allegations. Three days after a New York based federal judge refused the ‘Empire State of Mind’ rapper’s efforts to have claims he, the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs, and a still unnamed female Celebrity B repeatedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old over 24 years ago dismissed and the Jane Doe plaintiff unmasked, Jay-Z and his longtime lawyer Alex Spiro are back today for another kick at the judicial can.
As 2025 and Combs’ May 5 starting criminal sex trafficking trial looms, this time the multiple Grammy winner and the Quinn Emanuel partner are putting their chips on the calendar and geography getting the horrific matter tossed out. “Plaintiff cannot recover for her sole claim under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act (the GMV Law), as a matter of law, because the statute does not have retroactive effect,” wrote Spiro in a two-page letter to Judge Analisa Torres Monday announcing the latest attack on the Tony Buzbee represented Jane Doe’s First Amended Complaint. “Plaintiff asserts a violation of the GMV Law for conduct that purportedly occurred in September 2000.
But the GMV Law was not enacted until December 19, 2000, three months after the FAC claims the conduct occurred, and cannot apply retroactively to create a cause of action unavailable to Plaintiff at the time in question.” A legal leg hold trap setting attorney for the likes of Alec Baldwin and Elon Musk, Spiro is betting big on this new move and taking the risk for himself and Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) that further reprimands from Judge Torres won’t be forthcoming.
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