{"id":122515,"date":"2024-12-27T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/27\/jay-z-rape-accuser-can-remain-anonymous-for-now-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T00:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T05:03:59","slug":"jay-z-rape-accuser-can-remain-anonymous-for-now-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/27\/jay-z-rape-accuser-can-remain-anonymous-for-now-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Rape Accuser Can Remain Anonymous for Now, Judge\u00a0Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe woman who accused Jay-Z<\/a> and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/a> of drugging and raping her when she was 13 years old can remain anonymous for now, a judge ruled Thursday (Dec. 26), citing the \u201chighly sensitive\u201d nature of her accusations. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to court documents obtained by Billboard<\/em>, Judge Annalisa Torres wrote that \u201cthe weight of the factors\u201d in the case \u201ctips in favor of allowing Plaintiff to remain anonymous\u201d for now. In justifying the decision, the judge cited the Jane Doe\u2019s assertion that she continues to suffer from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other health effects due to the alleged rape, as well as a claim by the woman\u2019s attorneys that Combs has threatened other alleged victims who have filed suits against him for speaking out. However, the judge acknowledges that \u201cbecause the balance of these factors will certainly shift\u201d as the case moves forward, she plans to revisit the question of anonymity at a later date.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAlso in Thursday\u2019s ruling, the judge turned down a request by Jay-Z\u2019s legal team to fast-track a hearing on their motion to dismiss the case against him and criticized the rap mogul\u2019s lawyer, Alex Spiro<\/strong>, for his \u201crelentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks\u201d against the plaintiff\u2019s attorney, Tony Buzbee<\/strong>, calling them \u201cinappropriate, a waste of judicial resources, and a tactic unlikely to benefit his client.\u201d The motion to expedite the hearing was tied to a Dec. 13 NBC News<\/em> interview in which the Jane Doe admitted to inconsistencies and \u201cmistakes\u201d in her narrative of the alleged assault and was contradicted by her own father.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the woman\u2019s complaint, filed earlier this month<\/a>, she accused Combs and Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) of drugging and sexually assaulting her following an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in 2000. The case was an updated version of a previous complaint the woman had filed against Combs alone.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the updated case including Carter was filed on Dec. 8, the rap mogul and his attorneys have forcefully denied the allegations, with Carter calling the lawsuit a \u201cblackmail attempt\u201d and characterizing Buzbee as a \u201cfraud\u201d with an aim \u201cto exploit people for personal gain.\u201d Buzbee has filed a host of lawsuits against Combs over the last several months and has said he represents dozens more victims who have yet to file their own complaints.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement sent to Billboard <\/em>in response to Thursday\u2019s court ruling, Buzbee said that \u201cthe coordinated and desperate efforts to attack me as counsel for alleged victims are falling flat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn attorney for Carter did not immediately respond to Billboard<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest decision in the case comes as part of a mounting legal war between Jay-Z and Buzbee. On Dec. 18, Buzbee filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Jay-Z\u2019s company, Roc Nation, and its attorneys (including Marcy Croft <\/strong>and law firm Quinn Emanuel) accusing them of \u201cengaging shadowy operatives\u201d to derail his case against the rapper, including by allegedly offering money to one of his former clients (Gerardo Garcia) to convince him to file bogus lawsuits against his firm \u2014 an incident Buzbee claims was caught on tape. \u201cDefendants have conspired to obstruct justice by engaging shadowy operatives to illegally seek out more than two dozen current and former clients of The Buzbee Law Firm to convince those clients to bring frivolous cases against [the firm],\u201d Buzbee wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn response, a Roc Nation spokesperson called Buzbee\u2019s lawsuit \u201cnothing but another sham\u201d and \u201ca pathetic attempt to distract and deflect attention,\u201d while Croft reacted by calling the allegations in the lawsuit \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201ca desperate attempt to distract from his mounting legal woes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBuzbee\u2019s Dec. 18 lawsuit is actually the second he\u2019s filed against Carter\u2019s attorneys over the past month. The first, filed earlier in December<\/a>, accused Quinn Emanuel of retaliatory behavior, including alleged harassment of Buzbee\u2019s colleagues, clients and family. That came in response to a lawsuit Jay-Z secretly filed against Buzbee in November in which the rapper accused the Texas attorney of spearheading an effort to extract settlements from innocent celebrities after threatening to link them to Combs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The woman who accused Jay-Z and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs of drugging and raping her when she was 13 years old can remain anonymous for now, a judge ruled Thursday (Dec. 26), citing the \u201chighly sensitive\u201d nature of her accusations. According to court documents obtained by Billboard, Judge Annalisa Torres wrote that \u201cthe weight of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}