Plaintiff Suing Sean Combs / P. Diddy and Shawn Carter / Jay-Z Can Proceed Pseudonymously
From today’s order by Judge Analisa Torres (S.D.N.Y.) in Doe v. Combs:
On December 8, 2024, Plaintiff amended her complaint [in which she had originally sued Sean Combs] to add Shawn Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, as a Defendant…. Carter’s counsel appeared and moved to deny her motion …. The next day, Carter’s attorney filed a letter containing a declaration from an associate at his law firm recounting a phone conversation she had with an unnamed woman who claimed that Plaintiffs counsel encouraged her to lie about her experience of sexual assault. Carter’s lawyer asked the Court consider this additional info1mation in connection with Plaintiffs motion to proceed anonymously. Plaintiff’s counsel denied Carter’s allegations against him.
On December 13, 2024, Carter’s attorney filed an additional letter alerting the Court to a recently published interview of Plaintiff on NBC News. In the interview, Plaintiff, speaking anonymously, explained her allegations against Defendants and her reasons for coming forward now. Carter’s lawyer points to the interview—in which Plaintiff admitted to inconsistencies in her story—as evidence that Plaintiff’s claims have “no factual basis whatsoever.” …
In deciding whether a plaintiff may proceed anony
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