Jay-Z allegations

A live performance from Jay-Z, who’s urging the court to toss the sexual assault civil case filed against him. Photo Credit: Mike Barry

Jay-Z is officially urging a federal court to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit he’s facing and to impose sanctions against the Jane Doe plaintiff’s attorney.

The Roc Nation founder just recently moved to toss the much-publicized complaint and to tag attorney Tony Buzbee with monetary sanctions.

Buzbee is reportedly representing north of 200 alleged Diddy victims – with one of these accusers claiming that both Diddy and Jay-Z raped her at a VMAs afterparty in 2000.

But Jay-Z has been firing back against the lawsuit (and attempting to reveal the now-adult accuser’s identity) from the outset.

Meanwhile, an increasingly ugly sub-dispute is ongoing; multiple lawsuits are accusing Roc Nation and others of bribing current and former Buzbee clients to sue his namesake law firm. And Jay-Z didn’t hesitate to sue Buzbee out of the gate for alleged extortion.

Keeping the focus on the sexual assault allegation against Jay-Z, however, the anonymous alleged victim in mid-December sat down for an ill-advised NBC News interview. And as Jay-Z and his team see it, the resulting piece uncovered multiple alleged inconsistencies in the alleged victim’s story.

Now, with early January having seen the judge grant Jay-Z’s request to file a dismissal motion, these alleged inconsistencies mean it’s high time to toss the action, per the defendant entrepreneur.

As we previously reported, the alleged inconsistencies involve photos showing Jay-Z attending an afterparty at a nightclub – not the private residence described in the complaint – on the evening of the alleged assault.

The accuser’s father reportedly admitted having no recollection of picking up his then-minor daughter (in what would have been a lengthy drive, per NBC) following the alleged sexual assault. And at least one celebrity who the accuser claims to have spoken with at the relevant afterparty wasn’t in attendance, but was instead touring in a different state.

“All of this would have caused any reasonable attorney to put the brakes on filing an inflammatory complaint and to conduct a more thorough investigation into Plaintiff’s allegations,” Jay-Z’s legal team wrote when pushing for sanctions against Buzbee.

“Especially when a complaint alleges violent, felonious conduct that is defamatory per se,” the same individuals wrote, “attorneys should not be permitted to destroy a person’s reputation by alleging facts without a sufficient investigation or by failing to withdraw those allegations once it is clear that they are false or exceedingly unlikely to be true.”

Overall, the situation warrants “a strong sanction” and the suit’s dismissal, per Jay-Z and his attorneys.

Importantly, Buzbee previously refuted the report of inconsistencies in his client’s story, pointing to a vetting process and maintaining that the nightclub in question hadn’t been suggested as the site of the alleged rape.

Plus, “personal issues” meant the accuser’s father “was in no state to remember” picking up his daughter at the time or, in turn, nearly a quarter of a century later, per Buzbee.

In a statement, Buzbee – who’s still working on high-profile cases well outside the music space despite the multitude of claims against Diddy – in more words vowed to fire back against Jay-Z’s latest filing.