Jay-Z’s Legal Team Attacks Attorney Tony Buzbee, Claiming He Never Met With Rape Accuser Before Taking Case
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Jay-Z and his legal team are still on a tear about getting a lawsuit dismissed in which he is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, who, as you all know, is currently the defendant in dozens of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse (among other things).
Since news of the lawsuit against him first broke, the Roc Nation founder and his lead attorney, Alex Spiro, have been publicly beefing with the attorney for the plaintiff, Tony Buzbee, who they claimed moved forward with the lawsuit before vetting his client and is building a case on absurd lies and false information.
In fact, according to TMZ, Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, and Spiro claimed in their latest motion, filed in federal court on Wednesday, that Buzbee had not even so much as met his client in person before agreeing to represent her in the suit, indicating that he’s only taking hers and other cases for clout.
From TMZ:
The rapper’s new legal docs in support of his motion were filed earlier this month asking for sanctions against Buzbee … and, in it, Jay’s team points out that Tony now admits he never met with the Jane Doe suing him before he signed off on the complaint.
Although Buzbee insists the case was appropriately vetted, Jay’s lawyers are hammering him for never actually meeting the Jane Doe before it was filed — which Jay and his side see as a huge lapse in his ethical responsibility.
As you know … Buzbee’s working with a ton of different clients right now, so it’s not totally shocking he hadn’t met this particular Jane Doe before — but, he’s still catching flak over it from Jay’s side.
Jay-Z’s team wants the court to sanction Buzbee, claiming he didn’t do the bare minimum to investigate his client’s claims before she gave a now-infamous NBC interview.
Additionally, Spiro argued in the filing that Buzbee “got basic facts wrong” in his complaint against Jay and Diddy.
Hip Hop DX reported that Spiro noted in the filing that the father of the plaintiff, listed as “Jane Doe,” said he had no recollection of her version of events, which included him making a 10-hour roundtrip drive from Rochester, New York to NYC to pick her up on the night she said the assault happened.
“Mr. Carter seeks only to hold Mr. Buzbee to the ethical standards that constrain any responsible attorney who would solemnly sign his name to allegations in court,” Spiro wrote, requesting that Buzbee be sanctioned by the court.
Spiro claims Jane Doe’s lawsuit is riddled with inaccuracies, and, according to Newsweek, he even provided screenshots of Google Maps that he claims prove his client couldn’t have been where the plaintiff says he was at the time of the alleged incident.
