Elizabeth Oveson, who appeared in Jay-Z’s music video Hey Papi and wrote the 2005 memoir Confessions Of A Video Vixen, has weighed in after the musician was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Diddy.
Jay-Z, 55, was accused of raping the 13-year-old alongside Combs, 55, after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards in a civil lawsuit filed Sunday. Jay-Z has denied the allegations.
In an email exchanged with The Daily Beast, Oveson described how the latest accusations against Jay-Z reflected a bigger pattern.
She detailed how the MeToo movement has played a role in the latest reckoning.
‘None of this is shocking, and it’s all part of the same movement,’ Oveson – who has also alleged to have had an intimate relationship with Jay-Z – said, meaning the MeToo crusade.
She said MeToo has led to a ‘chain reaction.’
‘I’m not sure why people are separating this wave of Black music executives/artists from the original #MeToo investigations and arrests,’ she continued. ‘From (Bill) Cosby, (Harvey) Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and the hundreds in between—they’re all connected.’
Elizabeth Oveson, who appeared in Jay-Z’s music video Hey Papi and wrote the 2005 memoir Confessions Of A Video Vixen, has weighed in after the musician was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Diddy; Oveson pictured 2011
Jay-Z, 55, was accused of raping the 13-year-old alongside Combs, 55, after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards in a civil lawsuit filed Sunday. Jay-Z has denied the allegations; pictured 2020
In her memoir, Oveson – who is also known as Karrine Steffans – claimed she had been in a relationship with Jay-Z, among other big names who socialized in the world of hip-hop, according to The Daily Beast.
She also previously claimed in her book that she had been ‘gifted’ to Diddy, according to The Daily Beast. In a recent interview with the outlet about the incident, she said she was not one of his victims.
In her latest interview with the outlet, she continued: ‘They all know the same people with few degrees of separation between them. They have the same handlers, go to the same parties, share each other’s jets, yachts, and islands, and they abide by the same lawless code.’
‘What we’ve seen lately with (P. Diddy), and now Carter isn’t a different set of events,’ she added.
And Oveson suspects there will be more people to fall from grace.
She stated there are ‘still hundreds more men to be accused, found guilty, and fall’, alongside women who were allegedly complicit.
‘Ghislaine Maxwell wasn’t the only one,’ she said. ‘With society finally understanding the basic definitions of sexual, physical, and emotional coercion and abuse, I hope to see more abusive men and women in this, and all industries being held accountable.’
It comes after Jay-Z was hit with a civil lawsuit that claims he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl on September 7, 2000 after the MTV Video Music Awards with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. He has denied the allegation and insists he is the victim of a ‘blackmail attempt’.
Jay-Z is the first celebrity to be named alongside Diddy in one of the myriad lawsuits filed against Combs. Both rappers have denied all allegations.
The victim claims the rape took place at a VMA’s afterparty in September 2000, while an unidentified female celebrity watched.
Steffans released the memoir, Confessions of a Video Vixen, in 2005 under the name she previously went by, Karrine Steffans
The anonymous victim was previously referred to Jay-Z as ‘Celebrity A’ in the bombshell filing, with the female star accused of watching anonymized as ‘Celebrity B.’
Jay-Z issued a blistering response to the lawsuit via DailyMail.com, accusing the victim of attempting to ‘blackmail’ him.
The rapper claimed he feared that his three children with Beyoncé would have to ‘endure’ harassment in the wake of the allegations.
Jay-Z said he is especially worried about Blue Ivy, 12, and afraid she will face questions from her friends about the lawsuit. The couple also share twins Rumi and Sir, seven.
The rapper claimed he feared that his three children with Beyoncé would have to ‘endure’ harassment in the wake of the allegations; Jay-Z pictured with wife Beyonce on Monday
‘My only heartbreak is for my family,’ Jay-Z told DailyMail.com on Sunday.
‘My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people.’
Jay-Z said he mourned ‘yet another loss of innocence’ and declared that his ‘children should not have to endure’ the graphic accusations at their young age.
‘It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit,’ he said.
Beyonce and Jay-Z have been an R&B power couple for more than 20 years. They got married in April 2008, and by April 2014.
Combs, meanwhile, remains at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center where he is awaiting trial for federal criminal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering which he denies.
