One day after Jay-Z was named in a Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sexual assault case, the music mogul filed a motion to dismiss the rape lawsuit, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, also requested the court deny the plaintiff’s request to proceed anonymously. The rapper was accused of raping a minor along with Diddy at a MTV VMAs after-party in 2000, documents stated.
In his motion to dismiss, Jay-Z accused Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee of running a “sprawling extortion saga – saga whose aim is base and measured in dollars.”
The lawsuit, which was initially filed in October, was refiled Sunday in New York by an anonymous accuser claiming Jay-Z “raped” her while Combs and “Celebrity B” watched.
Representatives for Jay-Z did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
In the motion to dismiss, Jay-Z argued he was the victim of an “extortionate campaign” that was “cynical and calculated to force payment of an exorbitant sum of money – Defendant would have to pay X millions of dollars irrespective of the truth, or else … “
“When Defendant refused to pay and instead took measures to establish his innocence, this unnamed Plaintiff and her self-promoting counsel (whose name has been splashed across headlines and press conferences under auspices of representing her) went to extraordinary lengths to shut down fair defense. But those efforts, too, failed,” documents stated.
