Jay-Z is ending the year with an on-going battle against the rape allegations made against him.
New York-based federal judge Analisa Torres ruled on Thursday (Dec 26) that the Alabama woman who claims she was raped by Jay-Z and fellow rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 could proceed anonymously.
Judge Torres also chastised Alex Spiro, the lawyer representing Jay-Z for what she described as combative motions and “inflammatory language” against the plaintiff’s lawyer.
To that end, Spiro and Jay-Z are hopping that the time it took the assault allegedly took place and the geography will help in getting the case tossed out. Spiro claims that the plaintiff, referred to in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, lost her ability to file legal action “no later than August 2021”.
Spiro argues that “any viable [Gender-Motivated Violence] Law claim is time-barred under New York’s Child Victims Act (CVA), which preempts Plaintiff’s GMV Law claim,” in a two-page letter to Judge Torres on Monday (30 December).
“Plaintiff asserts a violation of the GMV Law for conduct that purportedly occurred in September 2000. But the GMV Law was not enacted until December 19, 2000, three months after the FAC claims the conduct occurred, and cannot apply retroactively to create a cause of action unavailable to Plaintiff at the time in question.”
The alleged brutal rape by the trio on a then-minor Jane Doe is purported to have occurred on September 7, 2000 during one of Diddy’s drug fueled so-called “freak offs” just after that year’s MTV VMAs. The allegation was first detailed in a vivid October 20 lawsuit that named Combs for the assaults, but merely mentioned a male “Celebrity A” and a “Celebrity B” as participants.