Weeks before Jay-Z was publicly named in a lawsuit of raping an unnamed teenage girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000, the rap mogul born Shawn Carter received a letter from the plaintiff’s lawyer threatening to “immediately file” a “public lawsuit” against him unless he agreed to resolve the allegations through mediation for a financial payout, his lawyers have said.
Instead, his lawyers sued the lawyer behind the demand, Tony Buzbee, citing Jay-Z as a John Doe. Buzbee has filed at least 20 civil lawsuits, initially by anonymous plaintiffs, against Combs accusing him of sexual misconduct, and has used Instagram, a phone hotline and a news conference to find clients.
