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A California judge dismissed Jay-Z’s extortion and defamation lawsuit against Houston attorney Tony Buzbee. According to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Los Angeles County Judge Mark Epstein said he was not “wholly satisfied” with his decision. He doubted that the defendant, Buzbee, knew he was peddling lies when he filed the lawsuit.

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Late last year, Buzbee added Jay-Z’s name to an amended lawsuit filed against music mogul Sean Combs. Buzbee represented a woman who claimed she was only 13 when Combs and Jay-Z raped her at a party in New York following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.

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Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, claims Buzbee sent him 2 demand letters in early November, pressuring him to pay up before the allegations were made public.

Jay-Z, 55, claimed Buzbee should have known the allegations would ruin him financially and harm his rap career.

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But the judge disagreed. “There is no demand for a particular sum of money, although that is not enough to protect the Letters,” wrote Judge Epstein. “The real problem for Carter is that the mediation request is about the sexual abuse allegations underpinning a potential civil case, and nothing else.”

Judge Epstein continued: “While it is true that the alleged conduct here constitutes criminal activity, defendants fall well short of threatening to go to the police unless Carter pays up. Selling silence as to law enforcement for money is extortion, but there is no promise of silence in the criminal context here. And selling silence for money in the civil context is not extortion; it is a settlement with a non-disclosure element.”

The judge said he was not “wholly satisfied” with his own decision and he would wait for the Court of Appeal to step in to determine whether his decision was “right or wrong.”

Judge Epstein ended his ruling with the phrase, “stay tuned.”