One word describes how Jay-Z feels about the rape allegations against him ... "upset."
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00:00Jay-Z has serious issues with this accuser, the woman who claimed that he and Diddy raped
00:08her back in the year 2000 after a VMA afterparty when she was just 13 years old.
00:13Now she spoke out on last Friday, Friday night she did an interview with NBC News.
00:19And during the interview there were several inconsistencies in her story, things that
00:24just didn't check out when reporters looked into it.
00:29She acknowledged those inconsistencies, but she says that she still stands firm on the
00:35allegation.
00:36She says she got some of the facts around it incorrect, but she stands firm that this
00:41did happen.
00:42Jay-Z did not see it that way, in fact, within an hour or two after the interview, his attorney
00:48Alex Spiro filed something with the judge in this case to say, we are going to ask for
00:53a dismissal and we want it to be expedited because this is destroying his good name.
01:00So cut to Roc Nation yesterday at Roc Nation headquarters before a meeting that was going
01:06on.
01:07They had invited reporters to this conference room and Alex Spiro, Jay-Z's attorney, was
01:13there to address the media about this allegation and what they're going to do going forward.
01:20He's upset.
01:23He's upset that somebody would be allowed to do this, to make a mockery of the system
01:29like this.
01:30He's upset that this distracts and dissuades real victims from coming forward.
01:34He's upset that his kids and his family have to deal with this.
01:36He's upset.
01:37And he should be upset.
01:38Mr. Carter has nothing to do with Mr. Combs case or Mr. Combs.
01:41They knew each other professionally for a number of years, just like in all professions,
01:46people know each other.
01:47At the music awards, they support each other.
01:49You go to the NBA all-star game, they support each other.
01:52That's just how professions work.
01:54There is no close association between any of them.
01:57That's also a matter of fiction.
01:59That's all that there is.
02:00He doesn't know anything about the charges for allegations against him.
02:02He has nothing to do with that case.
02:04And there's nothing more to say.
02:05So what's really interesting about this, he's a great attorney, by the way.
02:09He's the guy that got the Rust case dismissed with Alec Baldwin.
02:13What I find interesting is there is such radioactivity when it comes to pushing away
02:20from Diddy.
02:21In such a way that, I mean, and like you said, Alec Spiro, great attorney, but we've all
02:26seen for decades.
02:27They go to white parties, they socialize.
02:30And there's nothing wrong, by the way, with socializing.
02:32And I get his point that just because they're friends or they're associates.
02:36You don't tie it to the freak-offs, you don't tie it to all the other allegations, but you
02:41can still have a social relationship that had nothing to do with that.
02:46Yeah.
02:47I would.
02:48Exactly.
02:49You could say that.
02:50Now, as for the allegation in this particular case, what I hear is Jay-Z possibly, assuming
02:57that it is dismissed, as they've requested, is he going to perhaps file a suit against
03:04the accuser?
03:06Is that what they're setting up here?
03:07That he's so, in a sense, that you do need a judgment on the merits.
03:13And then you have to show that the lawsuit itself was motivated by malice, by pure malice.
03:20It's a high standard.
03:21I don't know if that's what he's doing.
03:23I also think it is a hard climb to get a case dismissed when there's a factual inconsistency
03:32because that's usually for a jury to make a decision.
03:35I don't know.
03:36Because the woman is still standing by the actual rape.
03:39That would also be an awful look.
03:41Jay-Z should not do that.
03:42You don't need to be a lawyer to know you should not go after someone, even if they
03:45are lying and making something up as far as some sexual assault that occurred.
03:50I don't think that's smart of Jay-Z. Attack the attorney.
03:53Don't attack the alleged victim.
03:55Well, if he's saying she's lying, I mean, we just saw what happened with Duke over the
04:00weekend, right?
04:01No, and I get, I hear that, Harvey.
04:03I just still don't know.
04:05I think he should try and show restraint here.
04:07This was someone who was 13 years old.
04:08Well, right.
04:09But and if it's real, I hear you.
04:11But what if it's not?
04:12No, that's a great question.
04:14It's got rock in a hard spot there, right?
04:16You don't want to be perceived of attacking someone who might be a victim.
04:19But right.
04:20I get Jay-Z's like, hey, I didn't do this.
04:21And she's making something up terribly about me.
04:23So I get that.
04:25As far as them getting it dismissed, she's standing by the rape allegation.
04:29Would a judge dismiss it, dismiss it based on the fact that there are other facts around
04:34it that she clearly or provably generally false?
04:38Generally not.
04:39Then it becomes, it's up to a jury.
04:42You try to get something dismissed when there's no claim at the base of whatever factual allegations
04:48you're making.