By Miguel Mike Medina
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A woman who alleges Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her has amended her lawsuit to include allegations that Jay-Z also attacked her at the same party.
Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, denies the allegation he sexually assaulted the 13-year old in the Video Music Awards after-party in 2000.
In a statement, Carter said the lawyer who filed the suit had 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 project in Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have codes and honor. We protect children; you seem to exploit people for personal gain.”
“Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable,” he added.
Jay-Z said the “heinous” claims will affect his family.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z share three children: 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy and twins Rumi and Sir, 7.
“My only heartbreak is for my family,” he said. “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.”
Jay-Z and Diddy rose to fame in the 1990s in New York. Diddy founded Bad Boy Records in 1993 and helped launch the career of the Notorious B.I.G.
Jay-Z formed Roc-A-Fella Records with Dame Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke and released his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, in 1996.
Miguel Mike Medina is the publisher of The MMM Journal. He can be reached at medinamiguelmike@gmail.com
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