'Blackmail': Jay-Z puts out scathing statement over allegations he raped a minor

Rap superstar Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, released a scathing statement targeting a Texas-based attorney accusing him of raping a 13-year-old girl with disgraced rapper, music producer and entrepreneur Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.  

The civil lawsuit, first reported by NBC News, was originally filed in October in the Southern District of New York against Combs but was re-filed Sunday to include Carter as a defendant.  

The outlet reported that the accuser’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, first sent a letter to Carter about the alleged rape at an MTV Music Awards after party in 2000 and requested mediation to “resolve this matter.”  

In response, the rapper and entrepreneur filed his own lawsuit against the attorney, NBC News reported.  

Less than hour after news of the lurid and disturbing allegations broke on Sunday, Carter put out a statement on Instagram, under his label’s - Roc Nation – account calling the accusations “blackmail.”  

“My lawyer received a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a ‘lawyer’ named Tony Buzbee. “What he calculated was the nature of the allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” the statement read. “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!! 

These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.”  

Carter further blasts the attorney, saying he has a pattern of these kinds of “theatrics” and that he’s unsure how Buzbee became such a “deplorable human.”  

“My only heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people,” Carter continues. “I mourn yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to endure such at their young age. It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit.”  

Referring to Buzbee as an “ambulance chaser” in a “cheap suit,” Carter said his heart goes out to “true victims” whose stories are distorted for the financial gain of a lawyer.  

“You have made a terrible error in judgment thinking that all ‘celebrities’ are the same. I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the projects of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have a very strict code of honor,” Carter adds. “We protect children, you seem to exploit people for personal gain. Only our network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have leveled against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable.”  

Carter ends the emotional statement with one last message to Buzbee.  

“I look forward to showing you just how different I am.”