Jay-Z accuses lawyer behind Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs joint rape allegation of trying to ‘extort exorbitant sums’

Rapper says the plaintiff’s attorney has made ‘a terrible error in judgment’ but the opposing side say Jay-Z is ‘orchestrating a conspiracy of harassment’

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.

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