Jay-Z filed a new motion on Wednesday seeking to dismiss the lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges that he and Sean 'Diddy' Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000 when she was 13 years old. In the court filing, filed on Wednesday, the rapper and his lawyers reference what they claim are inconsistencies in the woman's account of the events from that night.
His lawyer had this to say: 'To sign a pleading accusing someone of such a horrific crime without adequately vetting the allegation - particularly when the defendant's prominence means that the allegation will be repeated in headlines across the world - is deeply wrong and unethical,' Carter's lawyer states in the filing.
The monetary sanction angle makes sense; Jay-Z's position from the start has been that these serious accusations are just an attempt to extort him in broad daylight. Jay-Z's lawyer also claimed that if lawyers do not face consequences for such a cavalier effort to destroy another person's reputation, that tactic will proliferate.
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