{"id":4508,"date":"2025-03-04T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T23:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/jay-z-sues-accuser-drake-cites-super-bowl-more-music-law-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T23:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T23:46:02","slug":"jay-z-sues-accuser-drake-cites-super-bowl-more-music-law-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/jay-z-sues-accuser-drake-cites-super-bowl-more-music-law-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Sues Accuser, Drake Cites Super Bowl & More Music Law News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tThis is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from <\/em>Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tThis week: Jay-Z goes on the legal offensive to clear his name of rape allegations, Drake\u2019s lawyers cite Kendrick Lamar\u2019s Super Bowl show in legal filings, Cardi B wins a re-payment plan from a bankrupt gossip blogger and much more.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tTHE BIG STORY: Jay-Z Strikes Back\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tWhen an unnamed woman accused Jay-Z in December of taking part in one of Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 alleged sexual assaults, it was a shocking expansion of the already-sprawling claims against the hip-hop mogul \u2014 made all the more explosive by the claim that she was only 13 years old at the time.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut less than three months later, the case against Hov has already been dropped without explanation and without a settlement \u2014 and now the superstar is filing his own case aimed at fully clearing his name.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a lawsuit filed in Alabama federal court, he accused the Jane Doe plaintiff and her lawyer, Tony Buzbee<\/strong>, of carrying out an \u201cevil conspiracy\u201d to extort a settlement from him by leveling the \u201cfalse and malicious\u201d allegations of rape. Notably, the new lawsuit said the Doe accuser had \u201cvoluntarily admitted\u201d directly to Jay-Z\u2019s team that the star did not assault her and that Buzbee \u201cpushed\u201d her to make those allegations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMr. Carter does not commence this action lightly,\u201d his lawyers wrote. \u201cBut the extortion and abuse of Mr. Carter by Doe and her lawyers must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGo read the full story here, including access to the actual lawsuit Jay-Z\u2019s attorneys filed in court.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOther top stories this week\u2026\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tTHAT DIDN\u2019T TAKE LONG<\/strong> \u2013 Just two weeks after Kendrick Lamar\u2019s blistering Super Bowl performance, Drake\u2019s attorneys called out the halftime show in court documents filed in their defamation lawsuit against UMG over Lamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us.\u201d The star\u2019s lawyers cited the show as evidence of the ongoing harm that Drake is \u201ccontinuing to suffer\u201d while the case is delayed in court. And it paid off: Following Drake\u2019s filing, the federal judge overseeing the case sided with the rapper and refused to let UMG postpone an initial hearing.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEFAMATION DEBT <\/strong>\u2013 Gossip blogger Tasha K agreed in bankruptcy court to pay Cardi B more than $1 million in small installments over the next five years \u2014 a plan necessary to start paying down a $3.9 million defamation judgment Cardi won against her for making outlandish claims about drug use, STDs and prostitution. Under the terms of the deal, Tasha will still owe the rest of the damages award even after she finishes the repayment plan, and she is barred from \u201cderogatory, disparaging, or defamatory statements\u201d about the superstar while the plan is in effect.<\/p>\n

\n\tLILES ABUSE LAWSUIT<\/strong> \u2013 Kevin Liles<\/strong> was hit with a lawsuit alleging the 300 Entertainment CEO sexually harassed and raped an unnamed executive assistant while serving as the general manager of Def Jam Recordings in the early 2000s. Liles immediately denied the \u201coutrageous claims,\u201d \u00a0vowing to \u201cfully clear my name\u201d and file a defamation lawsuit against the accuser and her attorneys.<\/p>\n

\n\tGRACELAND SCAMMER<\/strong> \u2013 A Missouri woman named Lisa Jeanine Findley pleaded guilty to a bizarre plot to defraud Elvis Presley\u2019s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion. According to prosecutors, Findley falsely claimed that Presley\u2019s daughter had pledged the home as collateral for a loan before her death; Findley then threatened to sell Graceland to the highest bidder if Presley\u2019s family didn\u2019t pay $2.85 million. Following her guilty plea, Findley is scheduled to be sentenced on June 18 and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tDRAKE DROPS IHEART<\/strong> \u2013 Drake and iHeartMedia reached a settlement to end a legal action claiming iHeart received illegal payments from UMG to boost radio airplay for Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us\u201d \u2014 a preliminary action that Drake filed last fall in the lead up to his defamation lawsuit against UMG. In a statement to Billboard<\/em>, the radio giant said it had agreed to provide Drake\u2019s attorneys with documents showing that iHeart had done nothing wrong and that no payments had been made by either party.<\/p>\n

\n\tROCKY NOT CLEAR YET <\/strong>\u2013 Just over a week after A$AP Rocky was acquitted on criminal charges that he shot former friend A$AP Relli, a Los Angeles judge lifted a hold on Relli\u2019s civil lawsuit against Rocky. As reported by Rolling Stone<\/em>, Rocky\u2019s lawyer argued at a hearing that \u201cthere\u2019s no longer a basis\u201d for the case following the not guilty verdict, but Relli\u2019s lawyer vowed to proceed: \u201cThe standard in a criminal case is much higher than \u2026 in a civil matter. We still believe that our claims have merit, and we intend on fully litigating them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTHUG TOURING SETTLEMENT<\/strong> \u2013 Young Thug and concert giant AEG quietly settled a multi-million dollar legal battle over a touring partnership gone sour. The lawsuit, first filed in 2020 but delayed for years by Thug\u2019s high-profile criminal case, claimed that the star owed more than $5 million under a 2017 touring agreement \u2014 and that he was obligated to hand over some of his music rights to pay down that debt. The settlement came as Thug is gearing up to start performing in concert again for the first time since he took a plea deal to end the years-long criminal drama in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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