The nameless girl who accused Jay-Z and Sean Combs of raping her when she was 13 years outdated dropped her lawsuit on Friday in opposition to the hip-hop moguls.
Jay-Z’s attorneys had pointed to what they described as “evident inconsistencies” within the girl’s account, citing info that got here to mild in an NBC report that known as particulars from her account into query.
Jay-Z’s attorneys had requested a choose to dismiss the criticism, however the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, at the moment stood by the accuser in courtroom papers, writing that being a sufferer of sexual abuse could cause reminiscence lapses. However courtroom papers submitted by the plaintiff on Friday stated the swimsuit had been “voluntarily dismissed with prejudice,” which means that it can’t be refiled.
In an announcement, Jay-Z, who vehemently denied the claims from the outset, celebrated the choice, writing that the swimsuit was “by no means going wherever.”
“The fictional story they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims,” he stated. “I might not want this expertise on anybody. The trauma that my spouse, my kids, my family members and I’ve endured can by no means be dismissed.”
Mr. Buzbee declined to remark.
The lawsuit, first filed in October, added Jay-Z as a defendant in December, and within the courtroom papers the unnamed accuser stated that she had been raped by Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) and Sean Combs at a celebration at a personal residence after the MTV Video Music Awards in Manhattan in 2000.
Mr. Combs, who’s in a Brooklyn jail awaiting a trial on racketeering and intercourse trafficking costs, has vehemently denied sexually assaulting anybody.
The girl’s lawsuit claimed that after the encounter she was picked up by her father, whom she known as from a fuel station. However NBC reported that her father, who would have needed to have pushed hours from his house in upstate New York to select her up, didn’t recall having accomplished so.
The plaintiff additionally instructed NBC in an interview that she had spoken to the musician Benji Madden, a member of the band Good Charlotte, on the occasion after the awards that evening. However Mr. Madden, who was not accused of any wrongdoing within the swimsuit, was on tour within the Midwest on the time.
The declare spurred a bitter authorized dispute between Mr. Carter’s attorneys and Mr. Buzbee, a high-profile Houston lawyer who has individually filed greater than 20 lawsuits in opposition to Mr. Combs on behalf of shoppers who stated they’ve been sexually abused.
