Jay-Z’s defense request against Tony Buzbee on the way

Can I get a … process?

A Los Angeles judge reported on Tuesday that Jay-ZThe request for defamation against the high profile lawyer Tony Buzbee will exceed a legal appeal and will be allowed to proceed. In an attempt decision and comments in the courtroom during a long hearing, Judge Mark H. Epstein said he thought that the question whether Buzbee acted imprudently and with real wickedness when it was called Jay-Z as an accused in a rape trial Last December, he had enough merit to move on.

The same judge also said he was leaning on to reject the request for the rapper against Buzbee. At the end of the two -hour hearing, Judge Epstein refused to issue a final decision, saying that he needs more time to digest oral arguments from lawyers on both sides.

Jay-Z First sued the anonymous Buzbee In November, to claim that the Texas lawyer tried “without shame” to extort him while representing dozens of applicants with claims against the defendant musical mogul Sean Combs. Three weeks later, Buzbee filed a modified complaint on December 8, which named Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, as a male celebrity It is assumed to have raped a 13 -year -old girl Along with a combination of a New York residence in 2000. Carter immediately denied and refused the accusation and confirmed that it was John Doe who filed the extortion process. Jane Doe behind the rape process voluntarily continued reject complaints with prejudice – which means it cannot be filed again – on February 14th after recognizing that there were inconsistencies in her story.

In his attempt decision, Judge Epstein found that Carter had a basis to judge Buzbee for defamation, after Buzbee referred to Jane Doe as a “sexual assault survivor” in a socialization post from November 18. 2024 and then “liked” a post on X, the former Twitter, one day later, that Carter speculated was the attacker John Doe described in the rape process.

“When someone says that Doe is Carter, and (Buzbee)” likes “, it is not unjustified to deduce that (Buzbee) has just stated that he is right, that DOE is Carter,” said Judge Epsii’s lawyers in a Santa Monica, Calif. He said that the posts, taken together, created a problem in fact, and that Carter’s celebrity status, as well as the public interest in the case, had to prove “real evil.” The judge said that the lawyer’s failure to carry out a thorough investigation of a potential customer will not be alone. But if a lawyer “expressly stated” that customers were properly investigated and then a process was initiated at a lower investigation, which could create a different standard.

“We did not do the investigation, we all liked to do one will not be enough to show the real evil, I know that. The concern I have is to judge that, with Mr. Buzbee’s statements that he will not bring a trial until he has done a complete investigation, ”said Judge Epstein. “I agree that this is the hardest question of the case, the question” real evil “. If you say, “I will not name the name until I did a real investigation” and then you call a name, is it not the implication that you carried out a real investigation? And if you didn’t do it, is it okay? The current malice is not yet satisfied when I tell the public: “I did a real investigation and this type was employed for children” and, in fact, right? “

Judge Epstein said that the elimination of Carter’s extortion demand seemed to be an easier call. In his attempt decision, he wrote that Buzbee’s two letters of application sent to Carter in November made “no promise to refrain from going to law enforcement” if Carter agreed to pay a solution . “The sale of silence in terms of law enforcement is an extortion, but there is no promise of silence in the criminal context here. And the sale of silence for money in the civil context is not extortion; It is a settlement with an element of disclosure, ”he wrote. The next hearing in case is set for March 26.

In a sworn statement filed on February 10, Carter said that it is not an exaggeration that he saw Bizbee’s promise to name him in the rape process if he did not mediate the dispute an “existential threat” for his reputation, career and family .

“I felt that Mr. Buzbee placed a weapon in my head, which I either bow to his requirements, or support a personal and financial ruin. His actions caused me a mental anxiety about the tick time bomb and what he would do, my family and my reputation won, ”he wrote. “She was incredibly painful for my wife and me to sit with our children, one of whom is at an age where her friends would definitely see the press and ask questions about these statements and would explain this. I mourn this loss of innocence for my children, including one who is around the age that the minor minor claims was when she is falsely claiming that these attractive acts have happened. I am heartbreak that my children have to endure to hear these things about their father, especially at their early age. ”

He claimed that after Buzbee entered public with the “false accusations”, his company Roc Nation has lost contracts worth $ 20 million a year. He also questioned the moment of the modified complaint filed on December 8.

“I was harshly criticized by others because I accompanied my daughter at the premiere of her movie (Mufasa: the king of the lion) One day after Mr. Buzbee submitted the Jane Doe trial against me. Media Outlets reported that Disney hesitated for my presence at the first time because of the accusations, “Carter said. “I feel that Mr. Buzbee has intentionally submitted this process on the eve of my daughter’s premiere to put me in a position to have to choose between my daughter’s support or hide to avoid the negative press coverage.”