Final 12 months, a lawsuit in opposition to Sean Combs was refiled by an nameless Jane Doe, accusing Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old woman alongside Combs in 2000. Shortly after, she admitted to inconsistencies in her story. She dropped the swimsuit final month, and now Jay-Z is suing her.
Jay-Z — actual identify Shawn Carter — claims the accuser and her legal professional, Tony Buzbee, carried out an “evil conspiracy” to exhort a settlement from him with “false and malicious” allegations. The swimsuit says the accuser “voluntarily admitted” to the rapper’s workforce that the assault didn’t happen and Buzbee “pushed” her to make the allegations.
“Doe has now voluntarily admitted on to representatives of Mr. Carter that the story introduced earlier than the world in court docket and on world tv was simply that: a false, malicious story,” the lawsuit says, per Billboard. “She has admitted that Mr. Carter didn’t assault her; and that certainly it was Buzbee himself … who pushed her to go ahead with the false narrative of the assault by Mr. Carter to be able to leverage a most payday.”
The swimsuit additionally says Jay-Z is dealing with extra “extortionate threats” from Buzbee. Doe’s attorneys allegedly warned Jay-Z’s legal professionals that in the event that they shared Doe’s statements confessing her story was false, they’d problem a press launch saying she was “harassed” by Jay-Z’s workforce and “dropped the lawsuit solely as a result of she was afraid for her life.”
Jay-Z is suing for malicious prosecution, abuse of course of, civil conspiracy, and defamation. He’s in search of assumed and precise damages, along with punitive damages.