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NFL’s Roger Goodell Says Jay-Z Relationship Is “Not Changing” Amid Rape Accusation


Ahead of Super Bowl LIX, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has addressed the partnership with Roc Nation amid the rape allegation against Jay-Z.

Originally filed in October in the Southern District of New York by Texas-based Tony Busbee, the lawsuit that names Combs as the main defendant also alleges that Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) raped the plaintiff (referred to as Jane Doe) after she was driven to a party following the MTV Video Music Awards. In a statement shared on Roc Nation’s social media, Carter called the accusations “so heinous,” telling Buzbee in part, “I’m not from your moral world. Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable.

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