Two weeks ago Jay Z was added to a lawsuit filed against Bad Boy Entertainment CEO, Sean 'Diddy' Combs accusing them of rxping a 13-year-old girl 24 years ago [click here if you missed that].
Now Jay's legal team says she waited too late to file...
From Deadline
Jay-Z has no intention of walking away from 2024 without continuing to put up a fight against rape allegations.
Three days after a New York based federal judge refused the “Empire State of Mind” rapper’s efforts to have claims that he, the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs and a still unnamed female Celebrity B repeatedly sixually assaulted a 13-year-old over 24 years ago dismissed and the Jane Doe plaintiff unmasked, Jay-Z and his longtime lawyer Alex Spiro are back today for another kick at the judicial can.
“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,” wrote Spiro in a two-page letter to Judge Analisa Torres Monday announcing the latest attack on the Tony Buzbee represented Jane Doe’s First Amended Complaint. “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.”
To that end, Spiro and his client are doubling down on the timeline aspect of their argument by asserting that Jane Doe’s ability to mount a legal action “expired no later than August 2021.”
