TMZ's Charles Latibeaudiere on Allegations Against Jay-Z | The Don Lemon Show
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What are the newly amended allegations against Jay-Z and where did they originate?
everyone i'm so glad you could join us for the donovan show thank you so much you see that gentleman right there i'm here he is here to speak to us about a story that everyone has been captivated by and we're not talking about the united healthcare insurance ceo we're talking about jay-z and these allegations of rape against a 13 year old girl dating back to 2000 after the bmas in new york city So I'm so glad that you're here, Charles. Thank you very much, Charles from TNZ. Charles, take us through this. This was an amended lawsuit. They amended the lawsuit that was previously filed by Tony Busby, correct, on behalf of one of his clients, where Jay-Z was not named, but they amended it to put his name in.
What is going on?
Right. Jay-Z thinks what's going on here is that this is merely retaliation from Tony Busby. He thinks that's the only reason his name was added to this lawsuit now, because it was originally filed back in October. And when they filed it then, it named Diddy, of course, as one of the defendants. And the allegation was that at this VMA afterparty, Diddy and an unnamed celebrity had raped this woman who at the time was 13 years old. Now, they also said that there was a third celebrity, a woman who watched all of this go on and they didn't name anyone but Diddy. What happened in the background, what we didn't know, and now this has come forward, Jay-Z has said this, and so has Tony Busby. Tony Busby sent a demand letter to Jay-Z saying, my client says you were the other person who was there.
We would like to meet with you and have a private mediation and avoid your name coming out in public. Well, Jay-Z saw that as extortion and, in fact, filed a lawsuit against Tony Busby. He filed it anonymously. And I don't know if you remember, this was back in early November, mid-November. We reported that there was a prominent man, that's how we referred to himself in the lawsuit, who was suing Tony Busby. It was anonymous, just a prominent man. It turns out that was Jay-Z. Did you guys have any idea back then, Charles, that it might be Jay-Z? I got to tell you, Don, when we got the lawsuit and we reported it, we put it up on the website and I was looking through it and I turned to someone here and I was like,
This might be Jay-Z. And the only reason I thought it might be Jay-Z is the language that was used was so defiant. It was like it sounded very much like someone who said, you're messing with the wrong person. I'm not the one who's just going to roll over and give you, write a check to you. And there's something in the language of it that made me think this might be Jay-Z. Now, we actually contacted people connected to Jay-Z at the time, and they denied it and said, no, no, no, we don't know what you're talking about. And obviously, he didn't want his name to come out attached to it at that point. Well, now they refiled the lawsuit on Sunday, and now they've added Jay-Z's name. And now it says what they're alleging is that he was actually not just watching, but he was involved.
and did commit this rape along with Diddy.
That response from him is really quite something, where he says, basically he's calling it extortion. And he says, you've messed with the wrong guy. I have the response right here, but I just want to read just a little bit of it, Charles, and I want you to respond to this, where he says, hang on, here it is. Sorry, let me get my stuff together. He said, my lawyer received a blackmail attempt. I mean, he came right out and said a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter from a lawyer named Tony Busby. What he 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.
So, no, I will not give you one red penny.
Why was Jay-Z added to the original lawsuit and what does his team claim?
And it gets worse from there. He's going to Tony Busby. We are in an age. You've been doing this. This is what you do. Usually stars or high profile people will say, we're going, we're not going to, you know, litigate this in public.
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