Jay-Z has sued the woman who accused him of sexual assault, accusing her and her attorney of “false and malicious” allegations.
Late last year, an anonymous woman, referred to as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit against the rapper and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, accusing them of raping her in 2000 at an MTV VMAs after-party when she was 13 years old. Jay-Z strenuously denied the allegations.
However, in February, the accuser voluntarily withdrew the suit with prejudice, meaning she would not be able to file it again, and she acknowledged that there had been inconsistencies in her original account of the alleged incident.
Now, Jay-Z – real name Shawn Carter – has filed his own suit accusing Doe and her lawyers Tony Buzbee and David Fortney of engaging in an “evil conspiracy” to extort him with “completely fabricated” and “wildly horrific” claims of rape.
As reported by Rolling Stone, the suit was filed on Monday (March 3) and it alleges that Carter’s representatives made contact with Doe and she is said to have admitted concocting her claims about Carter. It alleges that she felt pressure from her legal team to then repeat the claims in a television interview with NBC News.
“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 suit claims. “She has admitted that Mr. Carter did not assault her; and that indeed it was Buzbee himself – whom she...
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