Jay-Z’s lawyer expects the r*pe allegation made against him will be dismissed by a judge this week.
Attorney Alex Spiro made the statement during a press conference at Roc Nation’s New York headquarters on December 16. Spiro said the rap mogul is “upset” that his public reputation is damaged by the allegations.
Spiro filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against Jay-Z after the rapper’s accuser, a 38-year-old Alabama woman, admitted inconsistencies in her story.
The woman told NBC News she made “mistakes” and couldn’t clearly remember the events from 24 years ago because she was woozy from consuming a spiked drink.
She claimed Sean Combs (who is in a Brooklyn jail) and Jay-Z r*ped her at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in New York City in 2000.
However, Spiro said the events “never happened”. “This is not for truth and justice. This is for money,” Spiro declared.
He added, “these are not minor inconsistencies… If you look at the time, it’s not possible this could happen.”
“I want to make sure this is clear: When people make up an account, whether intentionally or their mind is blank or something, they can always get that core part of the story right. They can just keep repeating it over and over and over again; this is what happened, that core part. But they’re always going to mess up the details. When something isn’t real, when something doesn’t happen, you’re going to get the details wrong because you weren’t really there,” he said. “[This was] not possible. It’s because this never happened.”
Spiro also threw a jab at the woman’s attorney Tony Buzbee. Spiro played a six-minute clip of the NBC News report for reporters and said Buzbee “created this narrative” and that he expects “this case to be dismissed. If not, it will crumble.”
“[The Jane Doe] said she’s at the party alone, this 13-year-old girl, and she finds herself in the room with the three most famous people at the party – just think about how unnatural, how little common sense that makes. And according to her, one of the witnesses is a female celebrity who’s just standing there watching the repetitive rape of a child. … There’s an adult female in the room watching the rape of a child,” he said. “Afterwards, she says she runs out of the house naked; none of them notice that. None of them pay any notice. For 24 years, none of them has said anything?”
Spiro said the house where Jane Doe claimed the incident happened doesn’t exist.
“There is no such location. We don’t know whether they created a location in order to try to get jurisdiction in New York so they could bring this case in New York or that they just didn’t do their homework,” he explained.
Jay-Z hopes the lawsuit is dismissed with less than a week to go before his wife Beyoncé is set to headline the halftime show at Netflix and the NFL’s Christmas Day game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans.
