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Rap mogul Sean Carter, better known as Jay-Z, has been named alongside Sean “Diddy’ Combs in a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit claims Carter and Combs sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty back in 2000.
According to legal documents obtained by NBC News, the woman claims she was picked up by a driver outside of the VMAs and told she “fit what Diddy was looking for.” After the driver dropped her off, the woman says she was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement, given a drink that made her feel woozy and was sexually assaulted by Carter and Combs while another unnamed female celebrity watched.
Via NBC NEWS
She was offered a drink that made her feel “woozy, lightheaded and felt [like] she needed to lie down,” the suit says, and she went into a room to rest.
Shortly afterward, the suit says, Combs and Carter entered the room with Combs saying, “You are ready to party!”
That’s when, she alleges, Carter removed her clothes, held her down and raped her while Combs and an unnamed female celebrity watched. She says Combs also raped her as Carter and the woman looked on.
NBC goes on to report that the accuser’s lawyer Tony Buzbee sent Carter a letter before filing the lawsuit attempting to mediate the matter which led to Carter filing his own lawsuit against Buzbee.
Before Sunday’s lawsuit was re-filed, “Carter received a letter from Plaintiff’s counsel requesting a mediation to resolve this matter,” Buzbee wrote in the suit. NBC News has seen that letter. In response to the letter, Buzbee wrote in the suit, Carter filed his own lawsuit against the accuser’s attorneys.
Update: Jay-Z released a statement after the lawsuit was made public.
“My lawyer received a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a “lawyer” named Tony Buzbee. What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle.”
“No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion. So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!”