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NFL’s Partnership With Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Is ‘Not Changing’ Amid Rape Allegation, Says Roger Goodell


NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the active rape allegation against rapper Jay-Z will not be impacting the league's relationship with Roc Nation.

Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, was accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs. During a press conference in Irving, Texas on Wednesday, Goodell said the league’s relationship with Carter and Roc Nation “is not changing… including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.” Carter immediately refuted the claims made by attorney Tony Buzbee, who added the mogul’s name to a previously filed lawsuit, and has since filed an affidavit claiming that Buzbee tried to coerce an individual to link an unrelated sex trafficking case to Combs.

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