Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, has received a scathing rebuke from the presiding judge on the rapper’s rape case.

According to Rolling Stone, Judge Analisa Torres also chastised the mogul’s lawyer Alex Spiro in her ruling, admonishing the attorney for using ad hominem attacks in his filings. Spiro had requested for the case to be dismissed,

Jay-Z and his hard-charging attorney were handed a setback Thursday by the judge overseeing a claim that the star raped a 13-year-old girl at a Diddy party. The billionaire rapper, real name Shawn Carter,

A New York judge condemned the rapper’s attorney Alex Spiro for his “relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language.”

A federal judge says an Alabama woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her when she was 13 years old can proceed anonymously for now with her lawsuit against the music moguls.

Jay-Z’s efforts to dismiss a case accusing him of raping a then-13-year-old girl in 2000 have been denied by a judge, who also granted the “Jane Doe” accuser the ability to proceed anonymously, despite efforts from the rap mogul’s legal team to have her reveal her identity publicly.