After a lawsuit claiming he had committed rape was voluntarily dismissed, Jay-Z (real name, Shawn Carter), has filed a defamation lawsuit against "Jane Doe," the woman who accused him of rape. The new defamation suit states that Doe alongside her lawyers, Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, "completely fabricated" the rape claim, engaging in an "evil conspiracy" against Jay-Z.
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Reported by Rolling Stone, the new lawsuit which was filed on Monday, March 3, claims that the rapper's attorneys contacted Doe directly. In this meeting, Doe admitted to fabricating her claim, feeling pressure from her legal team.
"Doe has now voluntarily admitted directly to representatives of Mr. Carter that the story brought before the world in court and on global television was just that: a false, malicious story," the lawsuit reads. The "global television" bit refers to an NBC News interview where she made her case. At the time, discrepancies regarding specific details of her story were pointed out by many, including her own father.
"She has admitted that Mr. Carter did not assault her," the lawsuit continues. "And that indeed it was Buzbee himself - whom she met for the first time at a coffee shop in Houston on the day of her maliciously false NBC News interview - who pushed her to go forward with the false narrative of the assault by Mr. Carter in order to leverage a maximum payday."
According to CNN, the lawsuit also questions some of the facts leading up to Doe's voluntary dismissal of her rape lawsuit. Reportedly, Jay-Z's legal team stated that Doe's legal team's claims of Jay-Z threatening Doe's life are "baseless." The lawsuit would also state that the rapper had never met or interacted with Doe.
Doe's Team Issues Statements
Following the filing of the new defamation lawsuit, Tony Buzbee issued several statements. In an initial one shared with Roling Stone, claiming that the new lawsuit has "no legal merit." Furthermore, he doubles down saying that Doe has been "harassed" and "threatened" by Jay-Z's investigators. These investigators, according to Buzbee, allegedly were caught on tape offering people to sue Buzbee and his firm.
"Shawn Carter's investigators have repeatedly harassed, threatened and harangued this poor woman for weeks trying to intimidate her and make her recant her story," Buzbee said. "She won't. Instead she has stated repeatedly she stands by her claims."
On Instagram, Buzbee posted a photo of Oscar Wilde on March 4. He also wrote a statement, saying that Jay-Z's lawsuit "reeks of desperation."
"Pay attention here: They wanted a headline so in that new case they FALSELY claimed she recanted," Buzbee wrote. He would say that Doe didn't recant and that she won't either.
Jane Doe first accused Sean "Diddy Combs" of raping her alongside an unnamed celebrity back in 2000. She only was 13 years old at the time. Said lawsuit, filed in October 2024, was then refiled on December 4, 2024. Doe named Jay-Z as the other celebrity who allegedly raped her.
