Houston attorney Tony Buzbee has dismissed his client’s rape lawsuit against one of the defendants in the sensational case.
In October, an Alabama woman filed a lawsuit alleging that Sean “Puffy” Combs and another man sexually assaulted her at a party when she was only 13 in 2000.
Well, now Buzbee has filed a motion to withdraw Combs’ company, Bad Boy Records LLC, from the lawsuit with prejudice – meaning the lawsuit can’t be re-filed against Bad Boy Records in the future.
The motion also relieves Bad Boy Records, LLC of paying court costs and legal fees to the other party.
The other defendants, including Combs and Jay-Z, are still listed as active in the lawsuit.
It isn’t clear why Buzbee dropped the lawsuit against Combs’ company.
In December, music mogul Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, filed an anonymous lawsuit accusing Buzbee of extortion.
After Jay-Z revealed his identity, he wrote an open letter accusing Buzbee of demanding a substantial amount of money to make the lawsuit go away. Z also filed a motion to sanction the lawyer for unethical motives.
That’s when Buzbee and his client amended the original lawsuit to add Mr. Z’s name as the other man who allegedly assaulted the woman when she was a child.
Jay-Z and his attorneys recently filed a request to withdraw the motion for sanctions against Buzbee.
No reason was given to withdraw the motion, just as no reason was given by Buzbee to drop Bad Boy Records, LLC as a defendant in the bombshell lawsuit.
As you can see below, all of the defendants in the lawsuit are named in the lawsuit’s header below, which is standard procedure in all lawsuits.
But only Bad Boy Records, LLC is listed as voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice and without costs to the label.
