50 Cent’s lawyer claims Daphne Pleasure Narvaez’s rape accusations are tied to her “loyalty” to Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“Regardless of being given ample alternative to retract a false and malicious retaliatory accusation, Ms. Narvaez has shamefully chosen to intervene together with her 11-year-old son’s relationship together with his loving father by falsely calling him a ‘rapist,’” the rapper’s lawyer, Reena Jain, instructed Us Weekly in a press release on Monday, Might 6, referring to 50 Cent (actual identify Curtis James Jackson III) and Narvaez’s son Sire, whom they’ve continued to coparent since their cut up in 2013.
Jain continued, “The motivation behind this seems to be Ms. Narvaez’s unlucky entanglement and misguided loyalty to Mr. Combs, who we consider to be underwriting this assault and whom Mr. Jackson has been warning Ms. Narvaez and others about for a few years.”
Combs’ crew couldn’t be reached by Us Weekly for remark.
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Jain’s assertion comes hours after Us broke the information that fifty Cent is suing Narvaez for defamation. In court docket docs obtained by Us, 50 Cent claims she “falsely and publicly” accused him of “rape and bodily abuse” throughout their relationship. (The pair have been collectively from 2011 to 2013.)
50 Cent alleged that Narvaez made a “purposeful try and, on info and perception, destroy his private and enterprise popularity, hurt Jackson’s business and enterprise pursuits, negatively have an effect on his custody case, and stop him from seeing his minor son,” the docs filed on Monday state.
After Narvaez made the allegations in March through Instagram, 50 Cent denied the “false and baseless accusations” in a press release to Us — and subsequently claimed within the court docket docs that he’s been “subjected to in depth public ridicule, hatred and contempt.”
50 Cent is seeking to “vindicate his rights and shield his popularity” from Narvaez’s “calculated assault,” whereas additionally looking for punitive and exemplary damages for the “extreme hurt” attributable to her “false and defamatory statements.”
Paras Griffin/Getty Photos; Albert L. Ortega/Getty Photos Sean “Diddy” Combs and 50 Cent got here up within the rap trade across the identical time — and have been feuding for nearly as lengthy. Whereas Diddy and 50 Cent have been at odds for the reason that early 2000s, their feud made headlines once more practically 20 years later. In […]
Current court docket docs named Narvaez as a “intercourse employee” in a case in opposition to Diddy and claimed that fifty Cent didn’t know “the complete extent and nature” of her relationship with the man musician. (Diddy, 54, is at present going through a number of sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.)
50 Cent determined to “take authorized motion to guard his son” after discovering the claims that Narvaez was Diddy’s “intercourse employee,” and filed for sole custody of Sire. After information broke, Narvaez publicly accused him of abuse through social media.
“The Defamatory Put up incorporates false and malicious statements of proven fact that expose Jackson to hatred, contempt, or aversion, or induce an evil or unsavory opinion of Jackson, within the minds of the general public,” the court docket docs state, referring to Narvaez’s social media put up, noting it was “made with the precise intent to” impression the custody case, partly.
The docs declare that fifty Cent “has been broken each personally and professionally” by Narvaez’s claims, including that he’s “suffered, and can proceed to undergo, substantial damages, to which he’s entitled to get well in an quantity to be decided at trial.”