The girl accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 can proceed anonymously (“at the least for now”) in her lawsuit towards the rappers, a choose dominated Thursday.

New York Choose Analisa Torres additionally condemned the authorized workforce representing Jay-Z (actual title Shawn Carter) for the “relentless submitting of combative motions containing inflammatory language and advert hominem assaults [on accuser’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee],” in response to a court docket order obtained by Selection. “Since Carter’s lawyer first appeared on this case seventeen days in the past, he has submitted a litany of letters and motions trying to impugn the character of Plaintiff’s lawyer [Buzbee].”

Choose Torres continues, calling the complaints “inappropriate, a waste of judicial sources, and a tactic unlikely to learn his shopper [Jay-Z].”

Jane Doe, who filed her authentic lawsuit towards Combs in October, and re-filed it with Carter’s title in early December, will stay nameless at this early stage of the litigation. She might nonetheless be required by the court docket to disclose her id.

Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Carter, just lately requested the choose to dismiss the entertainer from the lady’s lawsuit. He cited a report from NBC Information that exposed the accuser had admitted to some “inconsistencies and outright impossibilities” in her allegations. His workforce has additionally issued public statements referring to Buzbee as a “1-800 lawyer” who’s “within the pursuit of cash and fame.”

Choose Torres denied Carter’s request to dismiss the case. Representatives for Carter didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.

In the previous few weeks, Buzbee issued his personal lawsuit towards Roc Nation, the leisure firm owned by Carter, claiming they’re utilizing “shadowy operatives” to bribe his former purchasers into submitting “frivolous” complaints towards him. Carter has additionally sued Buzbee for defamation.

Jane Doe, who alleges she was 13 when Combs and Carter raped her in 2000, says she encountered the pair at an afterparty for the MTV Music Video Awards.

Carter responded to the allegation virtually instantly. “You could have made a horrible error in judgment pondering that each one ‘celebrities’ are the identical,” Carter wrote in a letter addressing Buzbee. “I’m not out of your ethical world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the undertaking of Brooklyn. We don’t play these kinds of video games. We have now very strict codes and honor. We shield kids, you appear to use individuals for private achieve. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, faux physics, will consider the idiotic claims you’ve levied towards me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to youngsters, can be laughable.”

Combs has been held in a Brooklyn jail since September. He’ll stay there till his trial is scheduled to start in Might.