Jay-Z is suing the nameless girl who in February withdrew a lawsuit accusing the rapper of rape, claiming that she and her legal professionals knowingly proceeded with a false declare.
Jay-Z (AKA Shawn Carter) mentioned that the lady, known as Jane Doe within the go well with, admitted to his representatives that she had falsified her account of Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raping her when she was 13, at an afterparty for the 2000 MTV Video Music awards. His go well with, filed in Alabama, the place she lives, names each the lady and her legal professionals Tony Buzbee and David Fortney.
Legal professionals for Jay-Z mentioned that the lady “voluntarily admitted on to representatives of Mr Carter that the story introduced earlier than the world in court docket and on world tv was simply that: a false, malicious story”.
The lady admitted in an NBC Information interview that she had “made some errors” in her allegations. She claimed her father picked her up after the alleged assault, however he didn’t recall doing so. She additionally claimed to have spoken to a musician on the after occasion who was on tour elsewhere on the time.
The brand new lawsuit brings a defamation declare in opposition to her in consequence, accusing her of malicious prosecution. It states that Jay-Z suffered reputational injury and that his firm Roc Nation misplaced greater than $20m in consequence.
Buzbee mentioned in a press release that Jay-Z’s go well with has “no authorized advantage”.
He claimed that the quotes attributed to her within the new lawsuit had been “utterly made up, or they spoke to somebody who isn’t Jane Doe. That is simply one other try to intimidate and bully this poor girl that we are going to take care of in the end. We received’t be bullied or intimidated by frivolous instances.”
Buzbee is the topic of a previous lawsuit by Jay-Z, who final 12 months accused the lawyer of demanding a “confidential mediation” tantamount to extortion concerning Jane Doe’s rape allegations. A choose mooted dismissing the extortion declare however permitting a defamation declare to proceed, however no determination has been made.
In a brand new affidavit in that case, the lady mentioned she was approached at dwelling in February by two folks claiming to be investigators working with Jay-Z’s lawyer, and that she refused to signal papers recanting her allegations. She added that she had withdrawn her authentic go well with out of concern of Jay-Z and his followers, and the chance that “I must be publicly named and subjected to public assaults”.
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