Jay-Z’s Lawyer Demands Hearing On Rape Allegation, Insists His Accuser Be Named

An attorney for Jay-Z called the lawsuit by the woman, who said she was raped by the rapper and Sean "Diddy" Combs at a party when she was 13, a "shakedown."

Lawyers representing Jay-Z are calling for an emergency hearing and demanding that the woman who accused him alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in a sexual assault lawsuit be publicly identified.

The attorneys representing the rapper and mogul, whose given name is Shawn Carter, responded to the woman’s amended complaint in a letter filed to the judge on Monday, which was reviewed by HuffPost. They said that Carter is innocent and called the allegations filed by the woman, who is only identified in court records as Jane Doe, a “shakedown.”

The woman’s lawsuit alleges that both Carter and Combs sexually abused her when she was 13 years old at a Manhattan house party after the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. Lawyers representing the woman wrote their client was drugged at a party, raped by Carter and assaulted by Combs in front of an unnamed female celebrity.

Carter has responded to the accusations against him by calling out Tony Buzbee, the attorney who is representing the woman and more than a hundred other people who have accused Combs of sexual misconduct. (Combs has denied any wrongdoing in the multiple civil suits and ongoing criminal case against him.)

“My lawyer received a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a ‘lawyer’ named Tony Buzbee,” Carter said in a statement posted to the social media account of Roc Nation, his entertainment company. “What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle.”