Jay-Z and Beyoncé Support Daughter Blue Ivy Carter at ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Premiere The family attended the L.A. premiere on Monday night, just one day after Jay-Z was named with Sean 'Diddy' Combs in a sexual assault lawsuit.

 Jay-Z and Beyoncé Support Daughter Blue Ivy Carter at ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Premiere

The family attended the L.A. premiere on Monday night, just one day after Jay-Z was named with Sean 'Diddy' Combs in a sexual assault lawsuit.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé walked the red carpet at the “Mufasa: The Lion King” premiere in Los Angeles on Monday night to support their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.

The 12-year-old voices Kiara, the daughter of Simba (Donald Glover) and Nala (Beyoncé), in the prequel to the 2019 photorealistic remake of Disney’s “The Lion King.” Glover and Beyoncé also reprise their voice roles from the remake.

Jay-Z’s surprise red carpet appearance comes one day after he was accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean “Diddy” Combs. The lawsuit, which was first filed in October and originally listed Combs as the defendant, was refiled Sunday to name Jay-Z (whose real name is Shawn Carter) as well.

Jay-Z responded to the lawsuit on Sunday in a statement in which he called the claims “idiotic” and part of a “blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a ‘lawyer’ named Tony Buzbee.”

He added, “My only heartbreak is for my family. 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. I mourn yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to endure such at their young age. It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit.”

Before the “Mufasa” L.A. premiere screening, Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Carter stood on stage alongside their castmates while director Barry Jenkins delivered the opening remarks.

“Either repeatedly pay an exorbitant sum of money to stop defendants from the wide publication of wildly false allegations of sexual assault that would subject Plaintiff to opprobrium and irreparably harm plaintiff’s reputation, family, career and livelihood, or else face the threat of an untold number of civil suits and financial and personal ruin.”

Jay-Z denies the allegations and has said “whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away”. Combs is in jail awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, and has denied the allegations.

Jay-Z is seeking to dismiss the case, claiming the court does not have jurisdiction over a lawsuit such as this.

His lawyer Alex Spiro asked the judge to expedite the hearing on the motion to dismiss, “due to the highly sensitive nature of this matter and the intense media scrutiny”.

Spiro described the case as “a shakedown. [Carter] is not mentioned, referenced, or implicated in any way in the criminal investigation of Mr Combs. He is neither a target nor a person of interest in that investigation.”

Lawyers for Jay-Z have also argued that the unnamed woman should file her complaint under her real name, claiming that there is insufficient reason for her to remain anonymous. “Mr Carter deserves to know the identity of the person who is effectively accusing him – in sensationalised, publicity-hunting fashion – of criminal conduct, demanding massive financial compensation, and tarnishing a reputation earned over decades,” wrote lawyer Spiro.

On 8 December, Buzbee amended the lawsuit to name Carter, previously described as a John Doe and “celebrity and public figure”, as accused of raping the girl with Combs in 2000, when she was 13.

A day later, lawyers for Jay-Z said that he was the John Doe behind the suit against Buzbee.

In a public statement, Jay-Z accused Buzbee of “blackmail”, said Buzbee had made “a terrible error in judgment” and lamented the effect of the allegations on his family with Beyoncé, particularly his oldest daughter, Blue Ivy, 12.

Buzbee responded accusing Jay-Z of “orchestrating a conspiracy of harassment” against him and other lawyers in his firm in an attempt to intimidate and silence his client.

On Monday, Buzbee told the New York Times that “sending a basic litigation demand letter” was not tantamount to extortion of blackmail, and had asked Jay-Z for a “confidential sit down” to protect the privacy of his client.

“We won’t get bogged down in a silly sideshow that tries to make the lawyers the focus of what are very serious allegations brought by a courageous woman,” Buzbee told the Times.