With lower than two months till Super Bowl LIX, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has addressed the league’s partnership with Roc Nation amid the rape allegation in opposition to Jay-Z.
On Wednesday, Goodell broke his silence on the accusation that the 24x Grammy winner raped a 13-year-old girl in 2000 in a latest refiling of a civil lawsuit in opposition to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
“We’re conscious of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s actually robust response to that,” he stated at a press conference. “We all know clearly that litigation is occurring now. However from our standpoint our relationship shouldn’t be altering with them, together with our preparations for the subsequent Super Bowl.”
Goodell added, “I believe they’re getting extremely snug, not simply with the Tremendous Bowl, however different occasions they’ve suggested us on and helped us with. It’s been useful within the social justice space to us on many ocassions. They’ve been nice companions which have supplied quite a lot of worth to us.”
Initially filed in October within the Southern District of New York by Texas-based Tony Busbee, the lawsuit that names Combs as the principle defendant additionally alleges that Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) raped the plaintiff (known as Jane Doe) after she was pushed to a celebration following the MTV Video Music Awards.
In an announcement shared on Roc Nation’s social media, Carter referred to as the accusations “so heinous,” telling Buzbee partially, “I’m not out of your ethical world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the challenge of Brooklyn. We don’t play some of these video games. Now we have very strict codes and honor. We defend youngsters, you appear to take advantage of individuals for private achieve. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, faux physics, will imagine the idiotic claims you’ve levied in opposition to me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to children, can be laughable. I sit up for displaying you simply how totally different I’m.”
Goodell’s assertion comes after NFL and Roc Nation introduced that Kendrick Lamar will headline the Apple Music halftime show at Tremendous Bowl LIX on Feb. 9, 2025, airing dwell on Fox from Caeser’s Superdome in New Orleans.
Based by Carter in 2008, Roc Nation entered a partnership with the NFL in 2019, advising on artist choice for main NFL occasions, together with the Tremendous Bowl.
