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Tony Buzbee left more than a dozen Diddy demands; Kake Jay-Z

Tony Buzbee left more than a dozen Diddy demands; Kake Jay-Z

  • The lawyer Tony Buzbee has retired from more than a dozen lawsuits he filed against Sean “Diddy.”
  • Buzbee was not allowed to practice in the Federal Court of New York, where he filed the demands.
  • The Texas headquarters told BI in an email that Jay-Z filed a complaint against him.

Tony BuzbeeThe Texas headquarters that have brought a wave of demands for sexual abuse against Sean “Diddy” PeinesHe has been forced to retire from more than a dozen cases involving the hip-hop tycoon, and is blaming Jay-Z.

This week, Buzbee retired as the plaintiff lawyer in at least 14 lawsuits he filed against combs who date back to October in a federal court in New York after it was clear that he was not allowed to practice the law there, according to judicial documents reviewed by Business Insider.

Buzbee told BI that Jay-Z – whose real name is Shawn Carter – has filed a judicial complaint against him in an attempt to prevent him from being admitted to prove cases in the South New York District.

Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex SpiroHe did not respond immediately to a request for comments.

Last week, a judge who supervises one of the cases of Buzbee said in a presentation of the court that he was struck that Buzbee has not been admitted that he practiced in the SDNY, a district of the Federal Court that includes Manhattan, where Buzbee has presented a series of a series of a series of a series of Less demands accusing him of sexual aggression and rape.

Combs, which remains previously locked In a Brooklyn prison in Federal sex trafficking chargesHe has vehemently denied charges, as well as all accusations of sexual abuse against him.

According to an order of February 13 of the Company Committee at the SDNY, Buzbee requested the admission to practice in court on January 29, months after he filed demands against combs.

“According to the review of the Albrocles Committee, Mr. Buzbee has appeared in cases in this court without seeking admission. Therefore, the petition refuses,” wrote the president of the committee in the order, as shown in the judicial documents.


Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Sean “Diddy” combs has denied all accusations of sexual abuse against him.

Mark von Holden/Internion/AP, file



The American district judge Ronnie Abrams, in his presentation last week, said that Buzbee had been warned several weeks before in a separate case that was violating a local rule of the court due to his state of admission. Abrams wrote that Buzbee “could not contribute this issue to the court’s attention” and ordered him to explain why.

In a letter on Monday, Buzbee wrote that “he made an error in the trial by not informing” the judge who had not been admitted to practiced in SDNY.

“As a good position lawyer from the New York State Bar Association, the Bar Association of the State of Texas, and its Brother District, the Bar Association of the East District of the State of New York, I think I am eminently qualified and should not be prevented from representing the plaintiff in this action,” Buzbee wrote.

However, he wrote, his state of admission has “become a distraction that has changed the focus of the matter far from where he should be, which is ensuring justice for the plaintiff.”

Buzbee added that the plaintiff unidentified in the case will continue to be represented by the New York law firm with which he co-presented that lawsuit and others against the combs, since he says “these issues.”

Buzbee told BI by email that he has a license to practice the law in the New York State Court, as well as in the Eastern District of New York.

“Usually, when you are admitted in a brother district, you receive reciprocal admission,” he said. “But, in this case, the individual with whom he was bringing a lawsuit, Shawn Carter, filed a complaint against me trying to avoid receiving the admission, a formality. So I have to deal with that before receiving the formal admission.”

Buzbee wrote that he was one of the multiple lawyers who handled the cases, but “he was the only one and a complaint filed against me by Jay Z”.

He accused Jay-Z of “using the complaint process as a weapon.”


Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter.

Jay-Z has filed a demand for defamation against Tony Buzbee and his client.

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Last month, one of Buzbee’s customers He dropped his demand for sexual aggression That accused Combs and Jay-Z. Jay-Z has since presented a defamation suit against Alabama and Buzbee’s wife.

Meanwhile, Buzbee filed a motion last month in another federal lawsuit against combs that seeks to represent his client at a “vice beam” base, which means he is an additional lawyer in the case despite not having a license there. He wrote in the presentation of the court that he recently denied the admission to the Bar Association of the Southern District of New York “based in large part of the complaint.”

Buzbee wrote in a sworn statement attached to the motion that intends to defend against the complaint and seek an appeal of SDNY’s admissions decision.

“The underlying main factor both to the complaint and the admission decision of the Southern District is that I signed electronically numerous allegations along with the local lawyer of my company (which is admitted in the South District of New York and that in reality presented all the allegations and other documents),” Buzbee wrote.

“To the extent that I violated the rules of the Southern District in doing so, those violations were not inadvertent and sorry for sincerely.”

By opposing the motion of Buzbee, the combs lawyers wrote in a judicial presentation of February 26 that they have never opposed a application for Vice Pro HA, a request for temporary authorization to practice in a certain jurisdiction, “and we do not do it lightly here.”

“But the atrocious misconduct of Buzbee guarantees the denial of the privilege of appearing in this district,” the lawyers wrote.

“He has signed multiple presentations in twenty -two cases without permission to practice in this court; he did not fail in each case to reveal that he had presented without being admitted; and violated the rules of professional conduct of New York for, among other things, he repeatedly insisting that Mr. Comong is guilty of criminal charges against him in this district, although Buzbee does not have a good basis for the government to create that the government calls any of its government. clients.

Buzbee has submitted several other demands against combs in the State of the State of New York, where he told BI that he is a main lawyer and will continue to be “as a member of the good position at the New York Bar Association.”