JAY-Z has addressed a man’s longtime claims of paternity head-on, telling a federal court that the allegations against him are “fabricated” and demonstrate a pattern of harassment.
Court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, July 10, reveal that the rapper-turned-mogul’s attorney directly addressed a federal suit brought by 31-year-old Rymir Satterthwaite, who claimed on May 6 that Hova (real name: Shawn Carter) is his biological father — a claim JAY-Z has repeatedly denied.
“The fabricated allegations and claims have been addressed – and rejected — in multiple other courts and [Satterthwaite’s] continued harassment of [Jay-Z] and disregard of those orders has already resulted in a contempt order,” Hova’s attorney said.
His attorney further stated that this lawsuit was “just the latest” in a “decades-long harassment” campaign.
Satterthwaite has long claimed that JAY-Z and his mother, Wanda Satterthwaite, were intimately involved in the 1990s, and that this brief affair resulted in his birth. The 31-year-old also alleges, however, that the “S Dot Carter” rapper has engaged in “unrelenting efforts…to suppress the truth and silence those who dared to speak it.”
Satterthwaite, whose previous suits against JAY-Z have been dismissed in different courts, further alleged these dismissals were due to the rapper’s shady courtroom tactics, wherein he allegedly “exploited legal systems in multiple jurisdictions to suppress [Rymir’s] paternity claim and prevent legal accountability.”
Perhaps most incredulously, Satterthwaite claimed he was shot 6 times, which he claimed in court documents was “a message intended to silence him.”
JAY-Z publicly addressed the rumors about Rymir Satterthwaite’s paternity in the 2018 song, “Heard About Us,” which appeared on the Everything is Love joint album with his wife, Beyoncé.
“Billie Jean in his prime/For the thousandth time, the kid ain’t mine/Online they call me Dad, kiddingly/You’re not supposed to take this Dad thing literally,” he rapped on the song.
