Jay-Z’s lawyer eviscerates sex assault accusations, pokes holes in alleged victim’s timeline: ‘Obviously did not rape a child’
Jay-Z’s attorney ripped allegations that the hip-hop mogul raped a 13-year-old girl nearly 25 years ago as not credible, while highlighting the growing number of inconsistencies that have surfaced since the lawsuit was filed.
“Obviously, Jay-Z did not rape a child,” Carter’s attorney Alex Spiro told reporters at the “99 Problems” rapper’s Roc Nation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan Monday afternoon.
He called the suit nothing more than a shakedown attempt against the rapper, whose net worth tops $2.5 billion, according to Forbes.
“There isn’t a specific number that has been demanded. People like this, they don’t send demand letters out to not get money. That’s all they want,” he said.
“The request was to sit down and talk about a way to resolve this matter and we all know what that means.”
Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing since allegations surfaced he drugged and sexually assaulted the girl along with disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs in September of 2000 as an unnamed “female celebrity” watched, court documents state.
The alleged attack unfolded at a drug-fueled afterparty following the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City that year.
Spiro began by playing footage from a recent NBC News report focused on the accusations before systematically picking apart the claims made on TV and the complaint filed in court against the rap icon.
He asserted that the location of the alleged rape does not exist, key eyewitnesses do not exist, the timeline doesn’t work, and the story falls apart with implausible details — while slamming the complainant’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee.
“According to their complaint, after approximately 20 minutes she arrived at a white house with a U-shaped driveway and a gate,” Spiro said.
“There is no such location in New York 20 minutes from Radio City. It does not exist, there is no such location,” he continued.
“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 they just didn’t do their homework. Any New Yorker knows there is no such location.”
He pointed out that the suit says the house where the afterparty took place was owned by Combs, but said in reality none of the properties in the star’s real estate portfolio remotely matched the alleged description.
“The location doesn’t work, because none of this happened.”
Spiro also shot down the notion that a female celebrity would watch such a horrific crime and never breathe a word about it to anyone.
“In 24 years, not a single witness has ever come forward saying this happened,” Spiro told reporters.
“She said she was at this party alone, a 13-year-old girl, and she finds herself in the room with the three most famous people at the party. Just think about how little common sense that makes,” he continued.
“And according to her, one of the witnesses is a female celebrity who’s just standing there watching the repetitive rape of a child. That celebrity does nothing, says nothing, reports nothing. They won’t even identify [the celebrity].”
Spiro also pointed to the alleged victim’s claims that she spoke to Good Charlotte guitarist and backup singer Benji Madden at the afterparty, which he said was not possible given the band’s touring schedule.
“Mr. Madden wasn’t there. He’s already said he wasn’t there. His tour schedule says he wasn’t there. None of this ever happened,” Spiro reiterated.
Carter himself has been vocal in insisting the allegations against him are baseless.
“This incident didn’t happen and yet he filed it in court and doubled down in the press,” Jay-Z said in a statement slamming the alleged victim and Buzbee, whom he alleged had filed a “false complaint” against him.
“True Justice is coming. We fight FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over before it began. This 1-800 lawyer doesn’t realize it yet, but, soon.”
Asked by The Post how Carter is feeling, Spiro described the “Empire State of Mind” rapper, who has three kids with wife Beyoncé, as “upset.”
“He’s upset somebody would be allowed to do this and make a mockery of the system like this. He’s upset that this distracts and dissuades real victims from coming forward. He’s upset that his kids and family have to deal with this,” Spiro said.
“He’s upset and he should be upset.”
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