JAY-Z has filed a memo with additional arguments to dismiss a Jane Doe’s lawsuit against him for sexual assault, following up on his initial attempt to get the case dismissed earlier this month.
In the new document, filed in federal court on Wednesday (January 29) and seen by HipHopDX, Hov’s attorney Alex Spiro argues that the alleged victim’s lawyer Tony Buzbee “got basic facts wrong” in the complaint.
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The lawsuit accuses JAY and Diddy of raping a then-13-year-old girl at a party following the 2000 Video Music Awards.
In his letter, Spiro noted that Doe’s own father said he had no recollection of her version of events, which included him making what would be a 10-hour roundtrip drive from Rochester, New York to pick her up in NYC on the night she alleges the rapper sexually assaulted her alongside Diddy.
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Spiro also made note of multiple inaccuracies in Doe’s story, including a claim (in an interview, not in the suit itself) of talking to a celebrity who wasn’t in New York at the time.
“Mr. Carter seeks only to hold Mr. Buzbee to the ethical standards that constrain any responsible attorney who would solemnly sign his name to allegations in court,” Spiro wrote, arguing that Buzbee should be sanctioned for either failing to certify Doe’s claims or knowingly filing a false claim.
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Spiro first filed his motion to have the case dismissed on January 8.
In it, the attorney poked various holes in the woman’s account and called for Buzbee to be sanctioned for failing to properly vet her claims before filing a lawsuit on her behalf.
Spiro’s new memo responded to some points Buzbee raised in a lengthy defense of his suit that the Texas attorney filed with the court last Wednesday (January 22), in response to Spiro’s January 8 letter.
Specifically, Buzbee said that, contrary to Spiro’s claims, he had investigated the woman’s story prior to filing his lawsuit. He said that he “ran a background check on plaintiff and retained a retired police detective to research and confirm other aspects of plaintiff’s account.”
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“[N]one of those individuals has even been named, let alone produced as a declarant,” Spiro fired back in the new letter. “Nor does the Opposition specify which ‘aspects’ of Plaintiff’s complaint were ‘fact-checked.'”
In response to Spiro’s latest letter, Tony Buzbee told HipHopDX: “With every frantic filing the defense in this case grows more desperate. The rules apply equally to everyone, even those who wrongly think they are above the law. No one is above the law. The ‘basic fact’ that is obvious to everyone is that the defendant’s motion is frivolous.”
