Jay-Z is pursuing a lawsuit against the anonymous woman who accused him of rape.
The 55-year-old music mogul, born Shawn Corey Carter, filed a complaint against the "Jane Doe" who accused him and Diddy of rape. Included in the suit is her attorney, Tony Buzbee, and lawyer David Fortney.
According to the suit reviewed by TMZ, Jay-Z described an “evil conspiracy” that the accuser admitted to Buzbee that the assault never happened, yet the lawyer “pushed her to go forward with the false narrative of the assault” to "leverage a maximum payday."
Further into the suit, Jay accused Buzbee of continuing to try to extort him by falsely alleging that the rapper’s team harassed the accuser after she dropped the case.
Jay’s suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. He also requested permission to sue her under the pseudonym Jane Doe due to her alleged "history of mental illness and medical vulnerabilities, including instances of self-harm." The rapper is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages.
In a statement shared with legal affairs journalist Meghan Cuniff, Buzbee slammed the lawsuit, saying it has “no legal merit.”
“This new case alleges the same claims as the other one they pieced together and filed in Los Angeles. Like the one in LA, this new case in Alabama also has no legal merit,” wrote Buzbee on Monday. “Shawn Carter's investigators have repeatedly harassed, threatened and harangued this poor woman for weeks trying to intimidate...
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