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Is Jay-Z hiding a secret family? Everything you need to know about the rapper's alleged illegitimate son

Is Jay-Z hiding a secret family? Everything you need to know about the rapper's alleged illegitimate son

TOI Entertainment Desk / etimes.in / Dec 13, 2024, 14:22 IST

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Rymir Satterthwaite, 30, alleges Jay-Z is his father, claiming the rapper impregnated his mother, Wanda, when she was 16. Satterthwaite has been fighting a legal battle for a paternity test for over a decade, accusing Jay-Z of legal system abuse. Wanda initially named another man as the father on the birth certificate but later informed Satterthwaite about Jay-Z.

Is Jay-Z hiding a secret family? Everything you need to know about the rapper's alleged illegitimate son

Amid the ongoing Sean ‘Diddy�?Combs legal drama, wherein recently Jay-Z also got embroiled when a lawsuit against him got filed, a new twist has come up. Jay-Z's alleged illegitimate son Rymir Satterthwaite in a recent media statement accused the rapper of getting his late mother pregnant at the age of 16.
While talking to Media Take Out, Rymir Satterthwaite called Jay Z "a secretive and vindictive man." He said that Jay Z was 22 and his mother was only 15 at the time when the two started dating. The 30-year-old further claimed that the rapper got her pregnant at just 16.
In addition to this recent statement, Rymir Satterthwaite has been fighting a legal battle against Jay-Z for years now. Over the years time and again he has made claims that he is the alleged illegitimate child of the rapper, but Jay-Z and his team never accepted the same.
It’s been almost a decade since Rymir Satterthwaite has been demanding that Jay-Z take a paternity test. He was 21 years old when he started demanding the test as the now 30-year-old claims the rapper is his biological father. Rymir has accused the rapper of abusing the legal system owing to which it’s been over ten years and to date, justice hasn’t been served in the matter. According to a report by Telegrafi, Rymir has taken his plea to the Supreme Court now.

The New Jersey resident, Rymir has mentioned that he will stop at nothing until he is given justice, and justice according to him is Jay-Z's acceptance of him as his son.
Further, coming to his mother, according to Satterthwaite, his mom, Wanda, and Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter started dating in the early 1990s. Back then, Jay-Z was not a global phenomenon. However, when Rymir was born in July 1992, Carter and Wanda had parted ways. Thus, on his birth certificate, she mentioned the name of her childhood sweetheart, Robert Graves as the father.
Years later, when Rymir turned eight, Wanda told him about his real father. In 2011, she filed a civil suit in New Jersey against Jay-Z seeking child support. However, since the case was filed in the wrong state, it was dismissed and never reinstated.
Over the years Rhymir has made multiple allegations and attempts to make the rapper submit to the paternity test, but his pleas have so far been rejected in the court. Jay-Z has never spoken about the matter in public.

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