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Lance Rivera stopped co-operating with the prosecution...

It has emerged that rap supremo Jay-Z paid $600,000 to producer LANCE RIVERA, the man he stabbed after a nightclub brawl two years ago, and Rivera then stopped cooperating with prosecution lawyers.

As reported on NME.COM yesterday (October 17), Jay-Z admitted the offence (third-degree assault) in a Manhattan court hearing on Tuesday (October 16) and will receive a three-year probation sentence during a hearing on December 6. Had a criminal trial started and Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, been found guilty, he would have faced a second-degree felony charge and faced a 15-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors have not said why they accepted Jay-Z‘s plea. However, the New York Post claims that the decision stemmed at least in part from Rivera’s vow to either “disappear” or “help his friend” if the case went to trial.

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Prosecutors said: “The victim… told [prosecutors] that money he had received from Carter pursuant to the threatened lawsuit adequately compensated him for the stabbing.”

The stabbing took place on December 2 at the Kit Kat club in New York. Jay-Z claimed that Rivera had been illegally bootlegging his then-new album ‘The Life And Times Of S Carter’.

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