Cunning Brown has raised eyebrows after sharing a sequence of cryptic social media posts that many followers have interpreted as her response to a rape allegation leveled towards fellow rapper Jay-Z, her former mentor.
Brown reportedly posted the phrase “WOW” to her Instagram tales Monday, in addition to an extra submit that includes the phrase “WAIT” and a flushed face emoji, as seen in pictures shared by retailers like TMZ and The Every day Mail.
One other submit within the sequence was, merely, a single cold-face emoji.
HuffPost reached out to a consultant for Brown for remark and clarification on the posts, however didn’t instantly hear again.
The posts’ timing, nevertheless, prompted observers to view them as Brown’s response to a civil lawsuit that accuses Jay-Z, whose authorized title is Shawn Carter, and fellow music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting an underage woman.
The plaintiff, listed as “Jane Doe,” alleges that Carter and Combs drugged her and raped her whereas an unnamed feminine celeb watched at a New York home occasion after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. On the time, Doe would have been 13 years outdated, whereas Carter and Combs would have each been of their early 30s.
The lawsuit was initially filed in October and, on the time, didn’t point out Carter particularly. A model of the criticism filed Sunday and obtained by HuffPost had been amended to incorporate his title.
Later that day, Carter denied the “heinous” allegations in a blistering assertion issued by way of Roc Nation, his leisure firm. He additionally blasted Doe’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, as a “deplorable human” who has “neither honor nor dignity.” (Combs has equally denied the allegations.)
On Tuesday, Carter’s authorized workforce known as for an expedited listening to and demanded that the lady who leveled the allegation towards him and Combs be recognized.
Brown, whose actual title is Inga Marchand, was broadly thought of a Carter protégé within the Nineties. She was featured on his 1996 debut album, “Reasonable Doubt.” The next 12 months, she launched the smash single “I’ll Be” with him.
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Rumors concerning the nature of her relationship with Carter have continued throughout the a long time, fueled ― at the least partially ― by rapper Nas’ 2001 music “Ether,” which prompt that the 2 had had an affair.
In response to Billboard, she appeared wanting to dispel that notion in October, when she mentioned a rumor that Carter had made her signal a nondisclosure settlement was “fake news.”
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