A lawyer for Shawn Carter, the hip-hop mogul generally known as Jay-Z, requested a decide Monday to disclaim a request to stay nameless from the lady who has accused Carter of raping her in 2000 when she was a 13-year-old lady, allegedly together with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.

In a courtroom submitting, Carter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued that the accuser’s choice to file a lawsuit towards Carter beneath the title “Jane Doe” was “inconsistent with a real effort to find out the reality or falsity of those allegations versus an effort to acquire a fast, extortionate settlement.”

Spiro mentioned that Carter was “respectfully searching for both dismissal of the allegations or disclosure of the Plaintiff’s id.”

“It isn’t according to justice, equity or the foundations governing federal proceedings for the Plaintiff and her counsel to smear Defendant’s good title in methods which might be calculated to feed media protection and thus inflict most public relations injury whereas the core truth of Plaintiff’s id … stays wholly hidden from view,” Spiro added.

Texas-based legal professional Tony Buzbee, who filed the lawsuit towards Carter and Combs, responded to Spiro’s movement in an interview Monday with NBC Information. “Anybody that implies {that a} demand letter, particularly the one which I despatched, is extortion or blackmail, is silly,” Buzbee mentioned.

“These sorts of demand letters are despatched each day throughout america, and trying to assault me to take the main focus off of the alleged perpetrator received’t work and it received’t intimidate us,” he added.

Within the lawsuit towards Carter and Combs, filed within the Southern District of New York, the accuser alleges that the assault happened after she was pushed to an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in 2000.

In a prolonged assertion Sunday evening, following NBC Information’ report on the lawsuit, Carter vehemently denied the allegation, blasted it as “idiotic” and accused Buzbee of participating in unprofessional conduct.

“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a prison grievance, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a criminal offense towards a minor needs to be locked away, would you not agree?” Carter mentioned in an announcement to NBC Information. “These alleged victims would deserve actual justice if that had been the case.”

Buzbee has filed a number of lawsuits towards Combs in current months, accusing the “I’ll Be Lacking You” singer of assault and rape. Combs has been charged by federal prosecutors in New York with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and different offenses. He’s in custody in Brooklyn and scheduled to go on trial Could 5.

In an announcement, Combs’ authorized representatives referred to the lawsuits towards him as “shameless publicity stunts, designed to extract funds from celebrities who concern having lies unfold about them, simply as lies have been unfold about Mr. Combs.” Combs’ representatives insisted their consumer “by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody — man or lady, grownup or minor.”

Within the lawsuit towards Carter and Combs, the “Jane Doe” accuser claimed a limousine driver who labored for Combs invited her to a home social gathering after the VMAs and instructed her she “match what Diddy was searching for.” 

The driving force ultimately drove her to a white home with a U-shaped driveway, the place she needed to signal what she believed was a nondisclosure settlement to enter the social gathering, in keeping with the go well with. The social gathering was stuffed with celebrities and folks doing medicine. She was provided a drink that made her really feel “woozy, lightheaded and felt [like] she wanted to lie down,” the go well with says.

She went right into a room to relaxation and, shortly afterward, Combs and Carter entered. She alleges that’s when Carter eliminated her garments, held her down and raped her whereas Combs and an unnamed feminine movie star watched. She alleges Combs additionally raped her as Carter and the unnamed lady appeared on.

The lawsuit says the accuser managed to withstand being compelled to carry out oral intercourse on Combs by hitting him within the neck. Within the wake of the alleged assault, the go well with says, the accuser “grabbed her garments” and left. She went to a gasoline station, the place she referred to as her father.

The accuser is searching for unspecified damages. The lawsuit is filed beneath New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act.