Jay-Z Provides New Allegations to Defamation Lawsuit Towards Rape Accuser

Jay-Z is doubling down, including new allegations to the malicious prosecution and defamation lawsuit he filed in opposition to his Jane Doe rape accuser and her attorneys in Alabama.

In an amended grievance filed late Monday in Cellular, the Roc Nation founder alleges his accuser “has not stopped” making statements about him though she agreed in February to voluntarily dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit that first recognized him by identify final yr. In that revised model of her grievance, filed Dec. 8, Doe publicly accused Jay-Z of raping her alongside Sean Combs at a MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) afterparty when she was 13 years previous.

In his new submitting, Jay-Z claims that as lately as April 11, the Jane Doe posted a lip-synched video on TikTok that acknowledged, “You couldn’t pay me 1,000,000 {dollars} to get an apology video out of me, I stand on what I mentioned, fuck you.”

“By refusing to apologize, and persevering with to ‘stand on what [she] mentioned,’ regardless of all of the proof and, certainly, her personal admissions on the contrary, Doe continues to show a stunning and reckless disregard for the reality that’s each intentional and malicious,” Jay-Z’s amended grievance, obtained by Rolling Stone, states. “Doe by no means had any affordable grounds to assist any reality in her statements and acted with reckless disregard for the reality,” the submitting continues to allege. “In different phrases, she lied.”

Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, filed the brand new grievance after the Jane Doe and her high-profile lawyer Tony Buzbee challenged his preliminary lawsuit with arguments he failed to point out the “particular damage” wanted to pursue his claims. They mentioned Carter’s prior allegation that Roc Nation misplaced out on an unspecified $20 million payday was not ample. (Buzbee and Doe additionally challenged the Alabama lawsuit by arguing Doe’s claims have been protected below the privilege prolonged to lawsuits filed in good religion.)

In his amended lawsuit, Carter claims the $20 million represented the “minimal charge assure” of an undisclosed contract, and that the total charge for the deal “would have been many thousands and thousands of {dollars} greater had the contract been carried out.” Carter additionally alleges fallout from Doe’s allegations additionally harmed his potential to pursue new enterprise alternatives.

“On account of defendants’ submitting of the false lawsuit and different false public statements in opposition to Mr. Carter, Mr. Carter was denied a $55 million private credit score line,” the amended grievance alleges. It additionally claims that Roc Nation additionally was denied a $115 million mortgage, and that Carter and Roc Nation are “inextricably tied,” so what occurs to 1, occurs to each. (Carter is a 50 % proprietor of Roc Nation, the submitting states.)

“The case is meritless and needs to be dismissed,” Buzbee tells Rolling Stone in an announcement despatched Tuesday. He targeted a lot of his disdain on a brand new accusation relating to his alleged tampering with Wikipedia pages.

Within the amended grievance, Carter claims “Buzbee directed his staff to edit Wikipedia pages to reinforce Buzbee’s picture and injury Mr. Carter’s and Roc Nation’s reputations,” saying such a transfer would violate Wikipedia’s guidelines. “Customers with an IP tackle immediately linked to the Buzbee Agency remodeled 100 constructive edits to Buzbee’s Wikipedia web page,” the brand new submitting alleges.

“That’s a primary for me and is extremely weak,” Buzbee says of the Wikipedia declare.

Carter first sued the Jane Doe immediately in March, 4 months after he sued Buzbee and Buzbee’s Houston-based legislation agency in November. In each lawsuits, Carter claimed Buzbee knew, or ought to have recognized, that he was peddling alleged lies when he filed the revised Dec. 8 lawsuit accusing Carter of being the male superstar described in a lawsuit that was first filed in opposition to Combs in October. Carter claimed Buzbee despatched him a requirement letter in early November to squeeze him for cash after which added him to the Combs lawsuit as a result of he refused to strike a secret settlement.

The Los Angeles County choose overseeing Carter’s California-based defamation lawsuit has already held quite a few hearings on Buzbee’s makes an attempt to dismiss Carter’s claims as frivolous. On Monday, the choose ordered Carter’s camp to submit the hotly contested audio recording that non-public investigators fabricated from Doe outdoors her Alabama dwelling on Feb. 21, 2025.

Rolling Stone beforehand obtained a portion of the alleged doorstep dialogue with the Jane Doe. Within the snippet, one of many investigators particularly requested if Doe was saying that Carter was on the VMAs afterparty however “didn’t have something to do with the any sexual acts in direction of you.”

“Yeah,” Doe replied. The opposite investigator then requested if it was Buzbee who advised Carter had a task within the alleged assault following the VMAs. “He was the one which type of pushed me in direction of going ahead with him, with Jay-Z,” the girl replied. Buzbee later claimed that his consumer was intimidated by the investigators and that her statements have been being twisted by Carter. His lawyer within the California case, Samuel Moniz, advised the court docket final month that Carter’s extortion and defamation claims don’t have any benefit.

“It is a well-funded highly effective determine who’s attempting to punish attorneys for doing what attorneys do,” Moniz argued in court docket on April 8. “Mr. Carter is clearly actually mad and decided to make use of his assets to ship a message to attorneys and plaintiffs all over the place. Any truthful interpretation of this case is that that is an assault on the correct to free speech and the correct to free petition. That is an abusive case that deserves to be dismissed.”

The subsequent listening to within the California case is ready for June 12.