JAY-Z Granted Request To File For Dismissal Of SA Case -- All Because Of THIS Technicality!

JAY-Z just scored a big win in the child rape lawsuit against him.

According to court documents obtained by journalist Meghann M. Cuniff and posted on X, Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York granted a request from his attorney, Alex Spiro, to file to dismiss the rape case on Thursday. Why? All because of a technicality!

The alleged victim, known only as Jane Doe, claims JAY-Z and Diddy raped her while a female celebrity watched during an afterparty for MTV Video Music Awards in September 2000. The woman was only 13 years old at the time. She made the claim against them under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, which came into effect in December of that same year. The law was amended in December 2022 to give people two years to come forward with allegations that may have passed the statute of limitations. This is all in an effort to make it easier for victims of rape and domestic violence to come forward, something that’s been historically very difficult.

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However, Spiro argued in a letter to the judge that the anonymous woman suing JAY-Z can’t make a claim against him under the Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act since it started after the alleged assault happened. The law started in December, the alleged rape happened in September — three months too early. He wrote:

“Plaintiff cannot recover for her sole claim under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act (the GMV Law), as a matter of law, because the statute does not have retroactive effect. Plaintiff asserts a violation of the GMV Law for conduct that purportedly occurred in September 2000. But the GMV Law was not enacted until December 19, 2000, three months after the FAC claims the conduct occurred, and cannot apply retroactively to create a cause of action unavailable to Plaintiff at the time in question.”

Ultimately, Judge Torres sided with JAY-Z on this one. It’s a weird technicality, but the law is the law. That means his lawyer now has until February 6 to file for dismissal. The victim’s attorneys then have until February 28 to submit opposition papers, and JAY-Z has to reply by March 14.

So basically over the next couple months we could find out that JAY-Z is going to get off scot free! Of course, getting off on a technicality doesn’t work so well in the court of public opinion. Hmm…

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