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Jay-Z Seeks Dismissal of Teen Rape Accuser’s Case, Punishment for Lawyer

Jay-Z has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of rape while seeking sanctions against the accuser's lawyer Tony Buzbee

“If lawyers do not face consequences for such a cavalier effort to destroy another person’s reputation and inflict emotional harm on his loved ones, that tactic will proliferate.” (Buzbee did not immediately reply to a request for comment.) The Jane Doe accuser, who filed her original complaint in October and amended it in December to name Carter, claimed that she found her way to Combs’ exclusive afterparty after trying to gain entry to MTV’s Video Music Awards in 2000. They also pointed out other purported impossibilities in the woman’s story, including watching the awards show on a Jumbotron and Combs’ owning a home with a “U-shaped driveway” that was roughly 20 minutes away from Midtown Manhattan.

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