Beyoncé is giving again this holiday season, but the recipient may raise an eyebrow.
The singer’s BeyGood Foundation donated $100,000 to the University of Houston Law Center on December 11. The gift will go to her hometown university’s Criminal Justice Clinic, which will be used to hire a full-time director and see expanded services included in the program, Billboard report. This donation will help more students enroll in future courses.
“I am delighted that the BeyGood Foundation has made this very generous gift to the UH Law Center,” Leonard Baynes, who serves as dean of the UH Law Center, said in a statement. “This funding will not only help establish a full-time criminal justice agency providing pro bono legal services in our community, but will also enhance our already established criminal law and justice program.” our excellence.”
“At UH Law, we envision a legal profession where ‘everyone has the opportunity to thrive,’ as envisioned by BeyGood, and we will achieve this vision by providing access to strong legal representation “And together, through this gift, the BeyGood Foundation and UHLC will mentor the next generation of criminal justice attorneys in Houston, Texas and the nation,” Baynes said. added.
Notably, the University of Houston happens to be an old matter of lawyer Tony Buzbee – the lawyer representing a woman who accused Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z, of raping her with Diddy when she was 13 years old. at the MTV Video Music Awards afterparty during a party. new lawsuit. The university wrote an article about him in 2015 when he was named Texas Attorneywas “Lawyer of the Year” in 2015.
“UH Law Center alumnus Tony Buzbee ’97, one of the nation’s most successful trial lawyers, has received the highest honors from one of the state’s leading legal publications . Texas Attorney magazine selected Buzbee as ‘2015 Lawyer of the Year,'” the post read.
Buzbee graduated from college with honors and even served as the newspaper’s managing editor. Houston Law Journal.
Buzbee is representing more than 120 victims of Diddy’s sexual assault allegations, and Jay-Z has publicly criticized him by vehemently denying the allegations against him.
“What he calculated was that the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle. No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose the fraud yours in a very public way. So no, I won’t give you a single red penny!” Jay-Z said in his statement about the accusations.
In his statement, Jay also said that Buzbee made a “terrible error of judgment” by generalizing about celebrities.
His statement concluded: “I look forward to showing you how different I am.”
Buzzbee has since claimed that he is being harassed amid an ongoing civil lawsuit against Jay-Z.
“Despite concerted and aggressive efforts that included harassing my children, contacting my clients and former clients to encourage them to sue me, contacting my co-workers or former employees to ask if I ‘abusing’ them or not, appearing in front of my current employees.” ‘ come to their homes to harass them, file frivolous lawsuits against me and my law firm, defame me with outrageous claims to anyone who will listen, and have mysterious people stalk me and my family, I’m still THAT guy,” Buzbee said on Instagram.
“I will not be bullied or threatened,” he added.
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