Jay-Z is escalating his legal battle against attorney Tony Buzbee, accusing the Houston lawyer of helping orchestrate a fabricated death-threat narrative to conceal what the rapper's legal team describes as unauthorized legal practice in federal court.
In a newly filed motion seeking permission to amend his lawsuit against Buzbee and others, Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, claims Buzbee and his legal team engaged in multiple acts of deception during the now-dismissed sexual assault case that accused the Roc Nation founder of raping a minor. The filing argues that those alleged actions warrant a new claim under New York Judiciary Law Section 487, which allows damages against attorneys accused of intentionally deceiving courts or parties.
According to the filing, Jay-Z's attorneys allege that attorney David Fortney told the anonymous accuser, identified as Jane Doe, that Jay-Z had threatened to kill her. The motion characterizes the claim as false and argues it was used to persuade Doe to quickly abandon the lawsuit before questions surrounding Buzbee's ability to practice in the Southern District of New York could be fully scrutinized.
"Defendant Fortney falsely (and outrageously) even told Doe that Carter had threatened to kill her in order to convince her to dismiss the Underlying Action, so that he and Buzbee could avoid sanctions for their unauthorized practice of law," Jay-Z's attorneys wrote in the filing.
The proposed amended complaint goes even further, alleging...
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