Attorney Tony Buzbee Responds To JAY-Z, Slams Claims Of “Extortion”
Tony Buzbee fired back at JAY-Z after the rapper claimed the lawyer had been trying to “extort” him. Buzbee took to X/Twitter on Sunday after the mogul, real name Shawn Carter, slammed Buzbee for adding his name to a lawsuit accusing him of raping an underaged girl in 2000.
The Houston-based attorney had a few choice words for the entertainer, accusing Hov of trying to “silence” his clients who are trying to come forward with their alleged truths about Carter. Buzbee denied Carter’s accusations that he and his clients have been attempting to “blackball” him and insisted that the victim “never demanded a penny from him.”
“Regarding the Jay Z case and his efforts to silence my clients: Mr. Carter previously denied being the one who sued me and my firm. He filed his frivolous case under a pseudonym,” he typed. “What he fails to say in his recent statement is my firm sent his lawyer a demand letter on behalf of an alleged victim and that victim never demanded a penny from him. Instead, she only sought a confidential mediation.”
“Since I sent the letter on her behalf, Mr. Carter has not only sued me, but he has tried to bully and harass me and this plaintiff. His conduct has had the opposite impact. She is emboldened. I’m very proud of her resolve. As far as the allegations in the complaint filed, we will let the filing speak for itself and will litigate the facts in court, not in the media.”
Regarding Buzbee’s claim that Carter sued him, the attorney was previously hit with a lawsuit in November by an anonymous source. TMZ reports that the John Doe at the time accused Buzbee of extortion and claimed that the attorney had threatened to release “entirely fabricated and malicious allegations of sexual assault — including multiple incidents of rape of a minor, both male and female — against Plaintiff if he refuses to comply with their demands.”
Over the weekend, JAY-Z was added to a lawsuit claiming that he, along with Diddy, raped a then 13-year-old girl in 2000 at an MTV VMAs afterparty. Shawn Carter vehemently denied any wrongdoing, releasing a statement through Roc Nation.
Carter called Buzbee’s move a “cheap suit” and insisted that the attorney made a “terrible error in judgment.”
“What [Buzbee] had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle…No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion,” he typed. “So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!”
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