Jennifer Lopez has been dragged into the Jay-Z scandal after she was caught on camera fighting with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on the same night both men are now accused of raping a 13-year-old girl.
Jay-Z, 55, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was named Sunday in an amended lawsuit accusing the rappers of participating in the alleged assault of the minor at an MTV VMAs after-party in New York City. in 2000.
According to the lawsuit, a third celebrity, a woman, was present in the room and watched as the men took turns with their victim.
Newly discovered footage, obtained by DailyMail.com, shows J Lo, 55, engaged in a heated argument with Combs that same night.
There is no suggestion that J Lo is the mystery celebrity. She is also not named in the lawsuit.
But now, with Jay-Z’s appointment, the eyebrow-raising altercation and events of that sordid night are firmly back in the spotlight.
J Lo dated Combs from 1999 to 2001 in a relationship that continues to cast a long shadow over the star to this day.
Jennifer Lopez, 55, has been dragged into the Jay-Z scandal after she was caught on camera fighting with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 55, on the same night both men are now accused of raping to a 13 year old girl.
The photos were taken at the now-defunct Lotus nightclub in New York on September 7, 2000. J Lo is with her sister Lynda and scowls at Diddy after their apparent argument.
Lopez had donned a multi-colored geometric print sheath mini dress for the after-party. She is seen walking away after her heated confrontation with Diddy.
The lawsuit, in which the victim is identified only as Jane Doe, was originally filed in October, but an amended complaint filed Sunday now names Jay-Z as the second previously anonymous celebrity who allegedly raped her while she was high, alone and drunk.
According to the lawsuit, obtained by DailyMail.com: ‘Defendant Sean Combs… along with his longtime friend and collaborator Shawn Carter, drugged and raped a thirteen-year-old girl at a party after the 2000 Video Music Awards. .
“Another celebrity stood by and watched as Combs and Carter took turns assaulting the minor.”
That third celebrity has not been named, but is identified as a woman whom the victim immediately recognized.
At the time of the assault, which the lawsuit says took place around September 7, 2000, the victim asked a friend to take her to Radio City Music Hall to try to attend the awards ceremony, for which she did not have a ticket. ticket.
He watched the show outside on a jumbotron before approaching several limo drivers in hopes of getting into the event or an after-party.
Jay-Z, 55, was also at the after-party where Diddy and J Lo had their verbal argument. He was named Sunday in an amended lawsuit that accused him and Diddy of raping a 13-year-old girl the same night as this party.
When they arrived at the afterparty, Diddy and J Lo seemed close, but as the night went on they started fighting.
The 13-year-old girl was served a reddish-yellow drink at Diddy’s after-party. After drinking it, she immediately felt sick and took refuge in an open room, before Jay-Z, Diddy and a third unnamed female celebrity entered the room where the alleged rape took place.
After throwing the girl against a wall and back onto the bed, she was allegedly raped first by Jay-Z and then by Combs while the female celebrity watched.
A driver who was taking Combs and others to the after-party agreed to come back to take her to the party, noting that she “fit what Diddy was looking for.”
Once at the party, the girl was asked to sign a document (a copy of which she did not receive) before mingling with the starry crowd.
After taking a few sips of a reddish-yellow drink, the girl allegedly felt “dizzy and lightheaded, causing her to need to lie down.”
Looking for a place to rest, he found his way to what appeared to be an empty bedroom and didn’t lock the door.
Moments later, ‘Combs entered the courtroom, along with defendant Carter and a female celebrity. The plaintiff immediately recognized the three celebrities.
Combs allegedly aggressively approached the girl, ‘with a crazed look in his eyes, grabbed her and said, ‘You’re ready to party!’ the lawsuit continues.
Jay-Z vehemently denies the allegations, describing them as “so egregious in nature” that he “implored” attorney Tony Buzbee to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one.
Buzbee is the Texas-based attorney who represents more than one hundred of Combs’ alleged victims and was named in Jay-Z’s response to the allegations.
After throwing her against a wall and back onto the bed, she was allegedly raped first by Jay-Z and then by Combs, while the female celebrity watched.
Jay-Z issued a lengthy statement to DailyMail.com on Sunday in which he claimed that, before the lawsuit was refiled under his name, his attorneys had received “an attempted blackmail, called a demand letter, from a” lawyer” named Tony Buzbee.
Buzbee is the Texas-based attorney representing more than one hundred of Combs’ alleged victims.
According to Jay-Z, Buzbee had calculated that “the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle.”
He said: ‘No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are VERY publicly. So no, I won’t give you EVEN A RED CENT!!’
The rapper continued, describing the allegations as “so egregious in nature” that he “implored” Buzbee to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one. “Whoever commits such a crime against a minor should be locked up, don’t you think?”
Jay-Z issued a lengthy statement to DailyMail.com on Sunday in which he claimed that before the lawsuit was refiled under his name, his lawyers had received “an attempted blackmail, called a demand letter” from Buzbee.
“These victims,” he said, “would deserve true justice if that were the case.”
Criticizing Buzbee as a man who has “neither honor nor dignity,” Jay-Z addressed his statement to the lawyer by saying, “You have made a terrible error in judgment by thinking that all ‘celebrities’ are equal.” I’m not from your world. I am a young man who managed to get out of the projects of Brooklyn.
‘We don’t play these types of games. We have very strict codes and honor. We protect children, it seems that you exploit people for personal gain.
“Only his network of conspiracy theorists, fake psychics, will believe the stupid claims he has made against me which, were it not for the severity of the harm to the children, would be ridiculous.”