Legendary American rapper, Jay-Z is reportedly suing his former r@pe accuser and her lawyer, Tony Buzbee.
According to court docs obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, March 3, Jay-Z, 55, is suing his accuser referred to in court documents as Jane Doe and Buzbee for abuse of process, malicious prosecution, civil conspiracy, and defamation.
The lawsuit was reportedly filed in an Alabama court and alleged that Jay-Z’s accuser and Buzbee conspired to falsely accuse him of s£xual ass@ult, allegedly causing him to lose $20 million. Lawyer David Fortney is also named as a defendant in the suit.
In his complaint, the rapper (real name Shawn Carter) claims that the defendants “were soullessly motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts of human decency,” per court documents.
Court documents also reportedly claim that Doe “voluntarily admitted” that Buzbee, her lawyer, “pushed her towards going forward with the false story against Mr. Carter” after an “extortionate demand letter failed to yield the financial windfall.”
Doe allegedly admitted that “Buzbee brought Jay-Z into it,” according to his filing, which also claimed that Buzbee had met Doe “for the first time at a coffee shop in Houston on the day of her maliciously false NBC News interview.”
“This new case alleges the same claims as the other one they pieced together and filed in Los Angeles,” Buzbee said in a statement to Us Weekly. “Like the one in LA, this new case in Alabama also has no legal merit. 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. She hasn’t, and won’t. Instead she has stated repeatedly she stands by her claims. These same group of investigators have been caught on tape offering to pay people to sue me and my firm. After speaking with Jane Doe today, it appears that the quotes attributed to her in the lawsuit are completely made up, or they spoke to someone who isn’t Jane Doe. This is just another attempt to intimidate and bully this poor woman that we will deal with in due course. We won’t be bullied or intimidated by frivolous cases.”
In a December 2024 on-camera interview with NBC News where her identity was concealed, Doe alleged that Jay-Z had r@ped her in 2000 at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards. She claimed to be 13 at the time of the alleged assault. Doe also alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs s£xually assaulted her as well, though the disgraced mogul has denied those claims.
Jay-Z has repeatedly denied the allegations against him since they were made public. Jay-Z’s lawsuit comes after Jane Doe’s lawsuit accusing him of rape was officially dismissed “with prejudice,” per docs obtained by Us on February 14.
“The false case against Jay-Z, that never should have been brought, has been dismissed with prejudice,” Jay-Z’s attorney Alex Spiro said in a statement to Us at the time. “By standing up in the face of heinous and false allegations, Jay has done what few can – he pushed back, he never settled, he never paid 1 red penny, he triumphed and cleared his name.”