{"id":4526,"date":"2025-03-06T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T00:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/jay-z-rape-accuser-stands-by-story-rapper-responds-with-new-filings\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T00:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T00:05:04","slug":"jay-z-rape-accuser-stands-by-story-rapper-responds-with-new-filings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/jay-z-rape-accuser-stands-by-story-rapper-responds-with-new-filings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Rape Accuser Stands By Story, Rapper Responds With New Filings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tJay-Z\u2019s rape accuser says in court filings that she stands by her story, directly contradicting his recent lawsuit that claims she admitted to fabricating the allegations \u2014 prompting the star\u2019s lawyers to offer testimony from private investigators and demand that the accuser sit for a deposition.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Los Angeles court filings Monday (March 3), the unnamed Jane Doe stated that she had flatly refused to recant her story when approached last month by investigators for Jay-Z \u2014 an experience she said left her \u201cintimidated and terrified.\u201d She also denied that her attorney, Tony Buzbee<\/strong>, had pushed her to sue.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose statements, which Doe made in a sworn affidavit, directly contradicted allegations leveled by Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) in a separate lawsuit filed earlier on Monday. In that case, he claimed Doe had \u201cvoluntarily admitted\u201d directly to his team that her now-dropped lawsuit was premised on a false accusation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlthough I ultimately chose not to pursue them, I stand by my claims in the New York action and believe that I had a meritorious claim against Jay-Z,\u201d the woman wrote in Monday\u2019s filing. \u201cI ultimately decided to dismiss the [case] because I was frightened by the reaction of Jay-Z and his supporters, and the likelihood that I would have to be publicly named and subjected to public attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the same sworn statement, the unnamed woman stressed that Buzbee had not sought her out, nor had he urged her to add Jay-Z to her allegations: \u201cI told them that neither of those things ever happened, and I asked them to leave me alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMonday\u2019s statement from Doe quickly prompted a response from Jay-Z\u2019s lawyers. In a flurry of new filings on Wednesday (March 5), they offered up sworn statements from the actual private investigators who allegedly talked to her, asking the judge for permission to add them to the case record.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn those statements, one of the investigators said, \u201cJane Doe stated to me that Mr. Carter did not sexually assault her.\u201d At another point, the same investigator added: \u201cJane Doe stated \u2018Buzbee brought Jay Z into it,\u2019 and \u2018he was the one that kind of pushed me towards going forward with him.\u2019\u201d Another investigator said Doe had told him that \u201clawyers at Mr. Buzbee\u2019s law firm told her that, if she pursued Mr. Carter, she would get a payout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the same filings, Jay-Z\u2019s lawyers also made an alternative request: that the judge permit them to depose both the accuser and Buzbee under oath. \u201cThe new declaration only further reinforces the need for Jane Doe and Mr. Buzbee to sit for a deposition regarding their conversations, including her conversations with his colleagues who convinced Jane Doe to drop her lawsuit,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tDepositions are not typically granted at the outset of such a case; instead, they are conducted during the later \u201cdiscovery\u201d phase as a case moves toward trial. But Jay-Z\u2019s lawyers say Doe\u2019s filing has opened the door to those issues and that the rapper is now \u201centitled to find out\u201d what the woman knows.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a detailed statement to Billboard <\/em>on Wednesday, Buzbee strongly denied the various claims advanced by Jay-Z\u2019s investigators in the new court filings. He said he believes they \u201cflat out made all of this up\u201d and that he \u201ccan\u2019t wait to see what they have been paid and who is paying them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJane Doe\u2019s case was signed up in October by another law firm to pursue allegations against Jay-Z and P. Diddy. Apparently it came in through Facebook to that firm\u2019s page. After it was vetted it was sent to my firm weeks later,\u201d Buzbee said. \u201cThe allegation that I sat with Jane Doe and suggested a suit against Jay-Z is not only a lie, it\u2019s proveably and demonstrably false and is contrary to the documentation from referring counsel\u2019s intake process and our own firm documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe blockbuster case against Jay-Z, filed in December, claimed that he and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl at an after-party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. It represented a shocking expansion of the already-sprawling claims against Combs and came amid speculation that other stars might be implicated in Diddy\u2019s alleged decades of abusive behavior.<\/p>\n

\n\tJay-Z forcefully denied the allegations, calling them a \u201cblackmail attempt.\u201d He accused Buzbee of trying to extort settlements from innocent celebrities by falsely tying them to Diddy and vowed to fight back and never pay his accuser.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Doe abruptly dropped the case \u2014 without explanation and without any kind of payment from Jay-Z. Two weeks later, Jay-Z sued both Doe and Buzbee for defamation, malicious prosecution and other wrongdoing, claiming they had carried out an \u201cevil conspiracy\u201d to extort a settlement from him by making the \u201cfalse and malicious\u201d rape allegations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMr. Carter does not commence this action lightly,\u201d his lawyers wrote in Monday\u2019s lawsuit. \u201cBut the extortion and abuse of Mr. Carter by Doe and her lawyers must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe recent filing from Doe rebutting those allegations, also filed Monday, was lodged in a separate lawsuit in California in which Jay-Z is suing Buzbee for extortion and defamation over the same rape allegations. At a hearing in that case<\/a> last week, a Los Angeles judge said he would likely dismiss the star\u2019s extortion claims but likely allow the defamation claims against the lawyer to proceed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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