An extended-running paternity swimsuit filed in opposition to Jay-Z was formally dismissed with prejudice in California on Tuesday.
A girl named Lillie Coley instructed the court docket she is the godmother and authorized guardian of a person named Rymir Satterthwaite, who is likely to be the son of the musical icon, 55.
Coley mentioned Satterthwaite, who is in his early 30s, was fathered by Jay-Z ‘within the mid-Nineteen Nineties with a lady named Wanda Satterthwaite,’ who died in 2019.
Coley mentioned the late Wanda Satterthwaite had spent virtually 20 years attempting to have courts in New Jersey in Pennsylvania set up Jay-Z’s paternity of Rymir Satterthwaite in home relations litigation, in accordance with authorized docs.
However the litigation got here to an finish with Wednesday’s order from the court docket.
‘The Court docket has learn and regarded the movement [to dismiss the case] and concluded that it’s appropriate for choice with out oral argument,’ mentioned a choose for the US District Court docket – Central District Of California.
Every day Mail reached out to representatives for Jay-Z for remark and has but to listen to again.
A paternity swimsuit filed in opposition to Jay-Z, 55, was formally dismissed with prejudice in California on Tuesday. Pictured in LA final yr
The rap icon was accused of fathering a person named Rymir Satterthwaite
Wanda Satterthwaite beforehand mentioned in a sworn affidavit that she and the Onerous Knock Life artist had been concerned romantically within the autumn of 1992, utilizing safety that failed once they consumated the romance.
Wanda Satterthwaite mentioned she gave beginning to Rymir in July 1993, in accordance with authorized docs.
Wanda Satterthwaite mentioned that she had been in an on-and-off relationship with boyfriend Robert Graves.
Graves was eradicated as a possible father through a 2010 paternity take a look at, in accordance with authorized docs.
In a single occasion within the heated case, in accordance with court docket docs, Coley mentioned that Jay-Z and his workforce had engaged in ‘abuse of [the] authorized course of’ for greater than a decade.
This was achieved by leveraging ‘sealed court docket orders, false filings, and procedural technicalities,’ Coley mentioned in authorized paperwork.
Rymir Satterthwaite instructed Every day Mail final December that he wished the Empire State Of Thoughts artist, who is wed to fellow music superstar Beyoncé, 44, to take a paternity take a look at.
‘I really want to resolve this,’ Satterthwaite mentioned. ‘I wish to resolve this and get this matter finished. I actually do. I don’t need any cash. I simply need the reality.’
Jay-Z, pictured in New Jersey in July, had battled the paternity case in a number of states
The Massive Pimpin’ artist was pictured at an occasion in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey in September
Satterthwaite addressed the entertainer immediately and mentioned, ‘Truthfully, I don’t bought nothing in opposition to you. I simply really feel like we may get this resolved. I used to be by no means chasing you.’
Satterthwaite confused he was ‘by no means chasing’ the Numb/Encore artist for fame and clout.
He added, ‘I simply actually wish to resolve this. I simply wish to resolve this and get this matter finished.’
Satterthwaite confused that ‘this might all be finished with one easy take a look at’ – and that he actually wished the state of affairs to conclude.
‘I simply really need it over with. It’s one thing that’s actually affecting my life and I simply need it over with.’
Satterthwaite added: ‘My mother handed away throughout this case and I actually really feel like I’ve unfinished enterprise.’
Rymir Satterthwaite instructed Every day Mail that he ‘actually’ believes that the ’03 Bonnie & Clyde artist is his organic father.
‘If he’s not, why can’t he show me fallacious?’ Satterthwaite mentioned. ‘Go to the courtroom and do what everybody else has to do.’
Satterthwaite mentioned he was ready to simply accept the outcomes for no matter they have been: ‘I can take a no. I can take being embarrassed.
‘I have been by loads. I may take me being embarrassed. I simply can’t take him not saying nothing. It’s not truthful. I’m coming to the courts for the reality.’
