Jay-Z opens up about the now-dismissed lawsuit that attorney Tony Buzbee filed against him.
On Feb. 10, reports reveal that the rap legend filed a declaration against Buzbee in the Los Angeles Superior Court and claimed that the lawyer and his client aimed to “purposefully inflict emotional distress on him by filing a lawsuit from a Jane Doe.”
The Jane Doe claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Diddy and Jay-Z when she was 13 years old in 2000. The “99 Problems” rapper’s filing also states that he lost out on contracts worth $20 million per year in income.
Jay-Z’s declaration also said that Buzbee “intentionally filed the complaint just before the premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King, which stars his daughter Blue Ivy, to put me in a position of having to choose between supporting my daughter or hiding to avoid the negative press.”
“I was harshly criticized by others for accompanying my daughter to the premiere of her movie a day after Mr. Buzbee filed the Jane Doe lawsuit against me,” he said in the declaration. “Media outlets reporte that Disney was hesitant over my attendance at the premiere because of the accusations.”