There’s a rumor spreading like wildfire that rap icon Jay-Z is suing a high-profile Texas attorney for extortion.
Prominent Houston attorney Tony Buzbee allegedly sent a letter to Jay-Z‘s lawyers requesting “confidential mediation” to avoid a sëx assault lawsuit.
Allegedly, a prominent law firm that represented Jay-Z in the past filed a lawsuit on behalf of a “high-profile” male celebrity, identified as “John Doe.”
The lawyers accuse Buzbee of “shamelessly attempting to extort exorbitant sums from him” with the threat of litigation containing “entirely fabricated and malicious allegations of sëxual assault,” according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY.
Allegedly, John Doe sëxually assaulted “several” male and female “minors” at a “freak off” party hosted by Sean Combs at one of his homes. Combs is currently in a Brooklyn federal lockup awaiting trial on sëx trafficking and racketeering allegations.
Buzbee’s alleged extortion letter stated John Doe raped several minors, both male and female, who were purportedly drugged at parties hosted by Combs.
Buzbee then reportedly threatened to “find an untold number of other ‘victims'” to make similar claims against John Doe, the lawsuit reads. Additionally, if Doe didn’t agree to a “confidential mediation” to resolve the legal matter, Buzbee and his team would allegedly “take a different course.”
Doe’s attorneys called the allegations “nothing more than a weapon in a calculated plot to destroy (John Doe’s) high-profile reputation for profit, despite the complete absence of any factual basis for such claims,” per the filing.
Doe’s lawyers called Buzbee’s alleged behavior “textbook extortion.”
But Buzbee fired back on Monday afternoon, saying the “powerful” man’s lawsuit was “a last-ditch attempt to stop me from revealing names in public lawsuits. It won’t work.” Buzbee said he was ready for a fight. “I am a US Marine,” he wrote on Instagram. “I won’t be silenced or intimidated. Neither will my clients.”
