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Is JAY-Z actually serious?

Jay-Z’s accuser is heard on tape saying that her previous sexual assault allegations against the rapper were false, according to Jay-Z's lawyer. The accuser, Jane Doe, previously said Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs sexually assaulted her after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards when she was 13 years old.The lawsuit has since been dropped. In a taped conversation, Jay-Z’s sexual assault accuser claimed her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, pressured her into suing the rapper.

The lawsuit against Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs has been dropped.

In the lull between the Beyoncé dominated Grammys of February 2 and Kendrick Lamar‘s Roc Nation produced half time show at Super Bowl LIX on February 9, Jay-Z is making some shifts in strategy in the hopes of getting tossed out claims that the Big Pimpin rapper, the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs and a currently unidentified female “Celebrity B” repeatedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in 2000.

Jay-Z has hit out at the lawyers of Jane Doe who have accused him of raping a 13-year-old girl.The lawsuit against the rapper – real name Shawn 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.He went on to issue 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.Now, according to HipHopdx, Carter has filed a memo with additional arguments to dismiss the suit brought against him.

Alec Baldwin has filed a lawsuit against the district attorney and other Santa Fe officials, alleging prosecutors “sought at every turn to scapegoat” him.It’s the latest in a series of legal disputes that followed the actor’s involvement in a fatal on-set incident. On October 21, 2021, Baldwin discharged a revolver used as a prop and was unaware that it had been improperly loaded with live ammunition, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.In a 2023 trial, the 30 Rock actor was charged with involuntary manslaughter in a case which was then dropped and was tried again in 2024.The prosecution intended to show that Baldwin was reckless and criminally negligent when he fired the revolver, but the case was dismissed with prejudice after Baldwin’s lawyers revealed that the prosecution and the local sheriffs had concealed a cache of bullets that was considered evidence.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Alec Baldwin has filed a civil rights suit against the district attorney and other officials in Santa Fe, N.M., alleging that he was wrongfully prosecuted for manslaughter in the accidental shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. In the 73-page complaint, Baldwin accuses D.A.

Thania Garcia Jay-Z has filed a motion to dismiss the ongoing lawsuit against him filed by a woman who alleges the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her when she was 13 years old during a VMAs after party in 2000. Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, filed the new motion on Wednesday after securing the greenlight to do so from United States District Judge Analisa Torres.

JAY-Z just scored a big win in the child rape lawsuit against him.

Well, this certainly doesn’t make him look more innocent…

Jay-Z‘s lawyer has told the court that the anonymous accuser’s claims against his client and Diddy are too old to pursue.Per Rolling Stone, the lawyer, Alex Spiro, filed new court paperwork yesterday (December 30) stating plans to challenge the lawsuit on grounds that the claim does not qualify for revival under the “lookback” window linked to New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act (GMVA). Spiro argued that the GMVA was not enacted until December 19, 2000, which took place three months after the alleged rape.On December 8, it was reported that Jay-Z – real name Shawn Carter – was named in a lawsuit which alleged the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2000 by the rapper and Diddy, real name Sean Combs.In a statement issued via Roc Nation, Carter called the allegations “heinous in nature” and dismissed them as a “blackmail attempt”, and filed a court letter seeking the dismissal of the suit while maintaining his innocence.

Jay-Z clearly has no intention of walking away from 2024 without continuing to put up a fight against rape allegations.

The woman suing JAY-Z and Diddy for sexual assault just scored a win.

Thania Garcia The woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 can proceed anonymously (“at least for now”) in her lawsuit against the rappers, a judge ruled Thursday. New York Judge Analisa Torres also condemned the legal team representing Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) for the “relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks [on accuser’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee],” according to a court order obtained by Variety.

Less than 24 hours after Beyoncé‘s triumphant Christmas Day NFL halftime extravaganza blew Netflix viewers’ wigs off, a legal storm has hit the Carter household as Jay-Z lost his Hail Mary attempt to terminate the case against him and the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs that alleges the duo violently assaulted a minor more than 20 years ago.

accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 years old nearly 25 years ago a secret for now — just weeks after the rap hip-hop mogul’s attorney pushed for her name to be revealed.In a new filing Thursday, Judge Analisa Torres scolded the rapper’s lawyer Alex Spiro for being combative and attempting to “fast-track” the judicial process after he made multiple requests that the court deny the alleged victim’s plea request to remain anonymous and dismiss the scathing lawsuit filed against Jay-Z — whose real name is Shawn Carter.“Carter’s lawyer’s relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks is inappropriate, a waste of judicial resources, and a tactic unlikely to benefit his client,” Torres said in the five-page filing.“The Court will not fast-track the judicial process merely because counsel demands it,” the judge added.

Alec Baldwin‘s ill-fated western Rust in 2021 is now over after New Mexico prosecutors decided not to pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against him.Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey announced yesterday (December 23) that she was withdrawing her appeal of a judge’s order dismissing the case.On October 21, 2021, Baldwin discharged a revolver used as a prop and was unaware that it had been improperly loaded with live ammunition, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.In a 2023 trial, the 30 Rock actor was charged with involuntary manslaughter in a case which was then dropped, and was tried again in 2024. The prosecution intended to show that Baldwin was reckless and criminally negligent when he fired the revolver but the case was dismissed with prejudice after Baldwin’s lawyers revealed that the prosecution and the local sheriffs had concealed a cache of bullets that was considered evidence.

the fatal shooting on the set of his movie “Rust” in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case’s dismissal.Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew that appeal, according to a statement from the Frist Judicial District Attorney’s office.Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement that “today’s decision to dismiss the appeal is the final vindication of what Alec Baldwin and his attorneys have said from the beginning — this was an unspeakable tragedy but Alec Baldwin committed no crime.”A New Mexico judge had dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in July, agreeing with the actor’s lawyers that Morrissey and the sheriff’s office concealed evidence about the source of the live round that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.The district attorney’s office said it still strongly disagreed with the judge’s decision to toss out the case against Baldwin.But the decision to drop the appeal of that decision was made after the Office of the Attorney General told Morrissey that it “did not intend to exhaustively pursue the appeal on behalf of the prosecution,” according to the statement.Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed a gun at her as they set up a camera shot on a movie set near Santa Fe. The gun fired a live round inadvertently loaded by the movie’s chief weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez.

UPDATED with appeal withdrawn: More than three years after Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a bullet from Alec Baldwin‘s gun on the New Mexico set of the indie Western, the involuntary manslaughter criminal case against the actor has been put to rest.

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.

A “cavalcade of misconduct” and “rule breaking.”