A pistillate who has accused Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter of raping her aft an awards amusement successful 2000 erstwhile she was 13 tin stay anonymous arsenic her suit proceeds, a national justice has ruled.
The woman's suit was initially filed successful October -- 1 of a fig of anonymous civilian complaints filed by Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee against Combs. The suit was amended successful December to see Carter, who has denied the allegations.
Carter filed a question earlier this period asking the justice to contradict the plaintiff's petition to stay anonymous, calling for either her individuality to beryllium disclosed oregon the suit to beryllium dismissed.
However, successful a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said the pistillate tin stay anonymous for present -- though she whitethorn revisit her ruling successful the future.
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The justice said allegations of intersexual battle are highly delicate and of an highly idiosyncratic quality and that the pistillate who filed the suit is "particularly susceptible to the imaginable harms of disclosure," because, according to her lawsuit, she suffers depression, post-traumatic accent upset and a seizure upset associated with the accent of her intersexual assault.
In her ruling, the justice acknowledged the plaintiff's continued anonymity "may origin prejudice to Defendants, making it much hard for them to cod the facts indispensable to equine a defense" and situation the plaintiff's credibility.
But, citing the "exceedingly aboriginal signifier successful this case," the justice ruled the pistillate tin stay anonymous for now.
"Plaintiff is advised that, due to the fact that the equilibrium of these factors volition surely displacement arsenic this lawsuit proceeds, particularly if and erstwhile the parties prosecute successful find successful earnest, the Court intends to revisit this determination astatine a aboriginal date," the justice wrote successful her ruling.
The plaintiff, who claims successful her suit Jay-Z and Sean Combs assaulted her astatine the after-party of the MTV Video Music Awards successful 2000, has acknowledged inconsistencies with her account. However, she has stood by her allegations.
Carter and his lawyer person powerfully denied the claims successful some nationalist statements and successful tribunal filings, accusing Buzbee, the woman's lawyer, of conducting an "extortionate campaign" against him.
The justice admonished Carter's lawyer for immoderate of his ineligible maneuvering.
"Carter's lawyer's relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory connection and advertisement hominem attacks is inappropriate, a discarded of judicial resources, and a maneuver improbable to payment his client. The Court volition not fast-track the judicial process simply due to the fact that counsel demands it."
Combs, who was arrested successful September connected sex-trafficking charges, remains successful custody successful the national Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn. Last month, a justice denied him bail successful the case.
Combs has denied each wrongdoing.
ABC News' Matt Foster contributed to this report.
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