Beyoncé is making a major donation to a criminal justice clinic days after husband Jay-Z was accused of rape in a new lawsuit.
The $100,000 monetary donation to the University of Houston Law Center’s Criminal Justice Clinic from the pop star’s BeyGood Foundation was announced in a press release by the university Wednesday.
“At UH Law, we envision a legal profession where ‘everyone has the opportunity to prosper,’ as BeyGood envisions, and we will achieve this vision by providing access to strong and effective legal representation in criminal proceeding,” UH Law Center dean Leonard Baynes said in the release.
The donation will help fund a full-time faculty and director for the center to assist “underserved communities” near the university, per the press release.
Jay-Z accused of raping, drugging 13-year-old girl with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2000
“And together, through this gift, The BeyGood Foundation and UHLC will shepherd the next generation of criminal justice attorneys in the city of Houston, the state of Texas and the nation,” Baynes added. Forbes’ estimate of the “Cowboy Carter” crooner’s net worth at the time of the donation is $760 million. The donation’s timing brings new questions into focus as the Carter family faces legal hurdles ahead.
In an amended lawsuit filed Sunday, an Alabama woman — identified anonymously as Jane Doe — claimed that billionaire music mogul, born Shawn Carter, and embattled Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy Combs drugged and raped her at an after-party following the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2000 when she was 13 years old. The woman brought a lawsuit against Combs in October for the alleged assault.
