A new lawsuit says the woman who accused Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter of rape “voluntarily admitted” her claim was false and influenced by plaintiff’s attorney Tony Buzbee.
But Buzbee’s lawyers said the woman still maintains the rapper and billionaire business mogul attacked her at a party in 2000 when she was 13, and they filed a declaration from her that says she dismissed her lawsuit only because of fear. The woman said two investigators working for Jay-Z’s lawyers went to her home on Feb. 21 and asked her to sign an affidavit stating her claims are false but “I refused.”
“They also asked me if Mr. Buzbee sought me out as a client, and whether Mr. Buzbee offered to pay me to pursue a false claim against Jay-Z. I told them that neither of those things ever happened, and I asked them to leave me alone,” according to the declaration.
Carter’s new lawsuit, however, alleges Buzbee and his co-counsel David Fortney duped the woman from beginning to end, including by “falsely, maliciously and manipulatively” telling the woman her lawsuit needed to be dismissed because Carter was threatening to kill her. In reality, they “were desperate to withdraw the false case or face punishment in court,” according to the 25-page complaint filed Monday in federal court in Mobile, Alabama.
Carter’s new lawsuit says the woman has made three other sexual assault allegations “which were either dropped or dismissed by courts.”
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