Jay-Z has been added in a civil lawsuit that accuses both the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs of allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000, according to a NBC News report.
The lawsuit filed by the Texas-based Tony Buzbee was originally filed in October in the Southern District of New York and listed Combs as the defendant. NBC News reports it was refiled Sunday to include Jay-Z, whose full name is Shawn Carter.
The accuser is ID’ed as Jane Doe in the suit. The assault allegedly happened after she was driven to a party after the MTV Video Music Awards.
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In October, Buzbee vowed to file multiple cases on behalf of alleged victims of Combs. That is in addition to the nearly 20 other civil cases and the criminal charges of sex trafficking and more from the feds that Combs is fighting.
Of the half a dozen plaintiffs for Combs’ accused actions between 1995 and 2021 filed in federal court in New York under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, one of them was a 19-year old female and one was a 16-year old boy.
Combs has repeatedly denied all the accusations against him. On November 27, a federal judge rejected his most recent bid to be released from New York City’s Metropolitan Detention Center before his 2025 trial.
Arrested in mid-September on racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution charges that could see him in prison for life if found guilty, the 55-year-old Combs’ trial is set to start on May 5, 2025. Putting up a $50 million bond plus other guarantees, Combs saw two previous bail efforts stymied in September.
Dominic Patten contributed to this report.
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