Judge denies Jay-Z’s request to be removed from lawsuit

December 31, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Jay-Z, a 22-time Grammy winner and entertainment mogul, was born and raised in Brooklyn. Photo: Greg Allen/Invision/AP File

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MANHATTAN – JUDGE ANALISA TORRES of the Southern District of New York on Thursday, Dec. 26, denied requests from the legal team of Brooklyn hip-hop mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter seeking to unmask the star’s anonymous accuser and have him removed from her lawsuit, reports CBS News. Filed originally in October, the lawsuit from the Jane Doe alleged that Sean “Diddy” Combs, as well as two other unnamed celebrities, sexually assaulted the then-13-year-old at a 2000 Video Music Awards afterparty; the suit was amended earlier in December to name Carter as one of the two celebrities. Torres in her decision also sharply criticized Carter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, over his “relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks” against Doe’s lawyer Tony Buzbee, which she called “inappropriate, a waste of judicial resources, and a tactic unlikely to benefit his client.”

Spiro on Monday, Dec. 30, then submitted another letter to the court, seeking to have Doe’s suit thrown out by claiming that Doe is “time-barred under New York’s Child Victims Act,” according to Deadline, and that she filed the suit too late.

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