Jay-Zs lawyer eviscerates sex assault accusations, pokes holes in alleged victims 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...