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Jay-Z's lawyer has accused Tony Buzbee of pushing women to lie about Diddy to fuel his own personal motives.
On Tuesday, Page Six obtained a filing made by Alex Spiro, Jay's longtime lawyer, in which he alleged the woman involved in the lawsuit accusing the Brooklyn rap legend of raping her when she was 13 years old contacted his office after filing to dismiss the lawsuit. According to Spiro, Buzbee's firm got the woman to pursue justice anonymously despite her not wanting to.
"Members of the Buzbee firm encouraged this woman to pursue her claims anonymously even though she did not have any interest in doing so," attorney Alex Spiro claimed in his filing. In other court documents, Spiro wrote the woman assumed Buzbee was "pressed for a connection to Mr. Combs, asking 'at what point did you meet Diddy,' even though she made clear that her case was unrelated" to him.
The woman allegedly met Buzbee after seeing him give a press conference regarding Diddy back in October. Buzbee is behind several sex crime lawsuits against Diddy and representing at least 120 alleged victims. She felt Buzbee could help her case against her own separate sex trafficking situation and was "pressured" into following through with a civil case as a Jane Doe.
"She felt directed and coached by Mr. Buzbee's firm to say that someone held her down and put drugs in her mouth when that was not her experience...She felt forced to lie," he wrote. "When the woman raised wanting to talk to law enforcement, she was informed that it was 'not encouraged.'"
He added, "When the woman declined to adopt the version of events proposed by members of the Buzbee firm, she was summarily dropped as a client."
Buzbee has told Page Six that Spiro's filing doesn't bother him, and he won't respond to "criminal defense lawyers who will say anything to shift the focus of what's happening here in a Hail Mary effort to keep their client out of prison."
"Recall that these are the same lawyers who have run towards every camera within a half mile so they can get their faces on TV," Buzbee told Page Six. "In any event, we are very particular about the ethical rules regarding lawyers and the media."
Despite defending himself, Buzbee's former clients are shining a light on his wrongdoings. TMZ reported that a former client claimed Buzbee stole money from him while charging interest to loan it back to him.
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