Jay-Z is facing renewed calls to confirm the paternity of his ‘illegitimate son’ in another legal blow to the beleaguered rapper who was accused of s3xually assaulting a teenage girl last weekend.
The record executive, 55, real name Shawn Carter, has been named in a civil lawsuit, accused of r*ping a woman alongside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in September 2000 when she was 13 years old.
Now, he is being dragged back into the ongoing legal tussle over the paternity of Rymir Satterthwaite who has been in a decade-long fight to prove that the rapper is his biological father.
Satterthwaite, 31, is claiming Carter’s legal team acted fraudulently during previous attempts to get him to take a paternity test.
Satterthwaite, his late mother Wanda and his guardian Dr. Lillie Coley are listed as plaintiff’s on a new lawsuit against multiple New Jersey courts, judges, and officials, including the New Jersey Supreme Court, alleging violations of their constitutional rights.
Filed on November 25, the suit argues that from 2012 to 2023 their ‘rights were violated through fraudulent court actions, which included sealed records, wrongful sanctions, and obstruction of their legal proceedings.’
Wanda, who died in 2019, alleged she had s3x with Carter in 1992 when she was 16 and he was 22 in a sworn affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com. Satterthwaite was born in the summer of 1993.
At the time she was in an on-again-off-again romance with her high school sweetheart Robert Graves.
In 2010 she requested that a Pennsylvania court make both men take a paternity test in order to determine her son’s real father.
Test results proved that Graves was not the biological father of Rymir.
The case began with a pre-trial in Camden County, New Jersey on August 13, 2012.
During the pre-trial, Carter’s attorney argued that Dr. Coley – who has acted as Satterthwaite’s legal guardian since his mother handed over custody in 2011 due to ailing health – had ‘no jurisdiction’ over his case because it was first filed by Wanda in Pennsylvania, and therefore should be heard in the same state.
The case was dismissed outright because Satterthwaite was over 18 years old at the time of the pre-trial and, according to Pennsylvania state law, paternity must be established before a child reaches the age of adulthood.
The court ruled that the case should be tried under New Jersey law, which states that the age of ‘parentage’ is 23.
Carter’s legal team then argued that the rapper should be exempt from undergoing a DNA test in New Jersey because he did not live or own any property in the state – despite public records linking him to homes in Alpine and Newport.
