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Diddy‘s legal team isn’t going for JAY-Z being added to a new lawsuit involving their client. TMZ reports that Diddy’s attorneys have spoken out against Tony Buzbee adding Hov to a refiling of a lawsuit alleging that the men sexually assaulted an underaged Jane Doe in 2000.
In an official statement, Sean Combs’ legal team asserted that including Shawn Carter in the mix is nothing more than a “shameless publicity stunt.” “This amended complaint and the recent extortion lawsuit against Mr. Buzbee exposes his barrage of lawsuits against Mr. Combs for what they are,” Diddy’s attorneys said. “Shameless publicity stunts.”
Tony Buzbee refiled the lawsuit, which was originally filed in October, on Sunday (Dec. 8), adding Hov’s name to the listing. Shawn Carter’s name was previously omitted from the lawsuit and was only named as a John Doe. Roc Nation filed its own lawsuit against Buzbee in retaliation in November, accusing the Houston-based attorney of “extortion.” But, with the refiling, Carter issued a personal public statement to Buzbee, calling him out once again for “blackmail.”
The Brooklyn native’s missive then went on to give love to the “true victims in the world” and labeled Tony Buzbee’s filing nothing more than “an ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.” Carter then firmly drew a line in the sand, asserting that he “protects children” while Buzbee only “exploits people for personal gain.”
Shawn Carter concluded his statement by vowing to show Buzbee that he isn’t like “other celebrities” and he “looks forward to showing you how different I am.”
Buzbee responded on X/Twitter to Carter’s accusations of “blackmail” and insisted that the rapper was trying to “silence” his clients.
Buzbee denied Carter’s accusations that he and his clients have attempted to “blackball” him and insisted that the victim “never demanded a penny from him.”
“Regarding the JAY-Z case and his efforts to silence my clients: Mr. Carter previously denied being the one who sued me and my firm. He filed his frivolous case under a pseudonym,” he typed. “What he fails to say in his recent statement is my firm sent his lawyer a demand letter on behalf of an alleged victim and that victim never demanded a penny from him. Instead, she only sought a confidential mediation.”
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