The NFL seems to be backing Jay-Z and transferring ahead with their relationship amid a civil lawsuit filed earlier in December claiming that the Roc Nation CEO raped a 13-year-old woman.
Throughout a Wednesday (Dec. 11) presser forward of the Christmas Day video games on Netflix, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was requested concerning the league’s affiliation with Jay-Z and so they don’t plan on altering something within the coming months.
“We’re conscious of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s actually sturdy response to that,” Goodell responded. “We all know that litigation is going on now. From our standpoint, our relationship’s not altering with [Roc Nation], together with our preparations for the subsequent Tremendous Bowl.”
Jay partnered with the NFL in 2019 to have Roc Nation produce leisure occasions for the league together with the famed Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, which Kendrick Lamar is slated to headline when the massive recreation heads to New Orleans in February 2025.
Over the weekend, Jay-Z was accused of raping a 13-year-old woman in 2000 at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty alongside Diddy. The surprising civil case was filed by an nameless accuser and Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee, whom Jay referred to as a “deplorable human.”
The Brooklyn rap mogul didn’t waste a lot time defiantly denying all the allegations towards him in a press release attacking Buzbee.
“You have got made a horrible error in judgement pondering that each one ‘celebrities’ are the identical,” Jay-Z stated. “I’m not out of your world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the initiatives of Brooklyn. We don’t play a lot of these video games. We now have very strict codes and honor. We defend youngsters, you appear to use individuals for private acquire. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists … will consider the idiotic claims you have got levied towards me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to children, could be laughable. I sit up for displaying you simply how totally different I’m.”
Jay-Z continued: “My solely heartbreak is for my household. My spouse and I must sit our youngsters down, one among whom is on the age the place her mates will certainly see the press and ask questions concerning the nature of those claims, and clarify the cruelty and greed of individuals. I mourn yet one more lack of innocence.”
Watch Roger Goodell’s full response under.
