NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated the energetic rape allegation in opposition to rapper Jay-Z gained’t influence the league’s relationship with Roc Nation, the leisure firm based by rapper.

Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, was accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old woman in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs. Throughout a press convention in Irving, Texas on Wednesday, Goodell stated the league’s relationship with Carter and Roc Nation “is just not altering… together with our preparations for the subsequent Tremendous Bowl.”

“We’re conscious of the civil allegations and Jay Z’s actually robust response to that,” Goodell stated. “We all know clearly that litigation is going on. However from our standpoint our relationship is just not altering with them, together with our preparations for the subsequent Tremendous Bowl.”

Kendrick Lamar is scheduled to carry out on the 2025 Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime present scheduled for Feb. 9, 2025, on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The present is just not solely produced Roc Nation, however the firm can also be the strategic leisure advisor of the dwell efficiency.

Godell continued, “I believe they’re getting extremely snug with not simply the Tremendous Bowl however different occasions that they’ve suggested us on and helped us with. They’ve been useful within the social justice space to us on many events. They’ve been nice companions which have offered lots of worth to us.”

Carter instantly refuted the claims made by legal professional Tony Buzbee, who added the mogul’s identify to a beforehand filed lawsuit, and has since filed an affidavit claiming that Buzbee tried to coerce a person to hyperlink an unrelated intercourse trafficking case to Combs. Carter’s authorized workforce additionally filed a movement to dismiss the swimsuit, requesting for the Jane Doe from the preliminary lawsuit to disclose her id in order that he can “correctly defend himself in opposition to this false declare by means of the authorized course of in a clear method.”