NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated the lively rape allegation towards rapper Jay-Z received’t impression 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 “just isn’t altering… together with our preparations for the following 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 just isn’t altering with them, together with our preparations for the following 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 just isn’t solely produced Roc Nation, however the firm can be the strategic leisure advisor of the stay efficiency.
Godell continued, “I believe they’re getting extremely comfy 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 supplied 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 crew additionally filed a movement to dismiss the go well with, requesting for the Jane Doe from the preliminary lawsuit to disclose her identification in order that he can “correctly defend himself towards this false declare via the authorized course of in a clear method.”
