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Jay-Z’s lawyer says he expects the rapper to soon be ‘cleared’ from rape lawsuit

Jay-Z’s lawyer distanced his client from Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is also accused in the lawsuit, saying “there is no friendship or longtime bond here.”

Jay-Z’s lawyer expects the hip-hop mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, to soon be “cleared” from a lawsuit that accuses him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a minor in 2000, he told NBC News on Monday. Carter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, told NBC News in an on-camera interview his client “isn’t going to get shaken down” after he was accused in a civil lawsuit last week of raping a 13-year-old girl at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in New York more than two decades ago. “This incident didn’t happen,” Carter told NBC News in another statement on Friday, “and yet he filed it in court and doubled down in the press,” he added, referring to one of the woman’s attorneys, Texas-based Tony Buzbee.

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