One Day After Big Oscar Party, Jay-Z Goes After Jane Doe & Lawyer Over 'Evil Conspiracy' Behind Now Dismissed Rape Case

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04-03-2025

As the Chateau Marmont staff this morning were cleaning up Jay-Z and Beyoncé's annual post-Oscars Gold Parry, the 'Empire State of Mind' superstar was doubling down on his backlash against the Jane Doe and the lawyer who accused him and Sean 'Diddy' Combs of raping her as a minor in a Valentines' Day dismissed case.
'Defendants devised and executed their plan to accuse Mr. Carter of sexual assault and used national news and media outlets to disseminate the fabricated accusations to millions despite the falsity of the accusation,' proclaims the defamation and malicious prosecution complaint filed Monday in federal court in Alabama against the now middle-aged Jane Doe, as well as attorneys Tony Buzbee and David Fortney.
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Using terms like 'evil conspiracy,' the filing say the trio 'were soullessly motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts of human decency' in claiming Jay-Z a.k.a. Shawn Carter participated in repeatedly raping her after the 2000 MTV VMAs.
After a graphic October 20 lawsuit named the much accused and currently incarcerated Combs for the alleged rape of the then 13-year-old with mention of a male 'Celebrity A 'and a female 'Celebrity B, an Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan-represented anonymous 'celebrity and public figure who resides in Los Angeles' went after the Buzbee for extortion in LA Superior Court on November 18. On December 8, the Houston-based lawyer refiled his initial suit claiming that Jay-Z was the 'Celebrity A' in question.
Decrying the claims as 'heinous in nature' Jay-Z revealed himself in early December as the 'figure who resides in LA.' Months of fighting the rape claims in federal court in NYC and failing to get the matter tossed out saw a lot of bitter finger pointing with claims of bribery, shady probes and lying from all sides, to varying degrees. Things certainly got shaker for Jane Doe after a mid-December NBC News interview in which she appeared to cut the legs out from several aspects of her own case.
The sudden February 14 dismissal of the self-undermined allegations by Jane Doe herself were in many ways the end of the beginning.
In a statement posted that day on his Roc Nation's X feed, Jay-Z tellingly said: 'I would not wish this experience on anyone. The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed.'
Around the time the rape case was tossed out, Jay-Z claimed in court filings that the accusations were 'incredibly painful' for he and Beyoncé's family and scarred his reputation, personally and professionally. Claiming Buzbee was trying to get a big payout from him, the Roc Nation founder added that the allegations cost his company up to $20 million annually in deals too. In that context, on February 26, a tentative ruling by LASC Judge Mark H. Epstein stripped Jay-Z's extortion claim against Buzbee from the West Coast case. However, Judge Epstein left in the defamation claim and the real possibility of a trial.
Full of those same family shame themes and the lost $20 million, today's jury trial seeking move by the '99 Problems' rapper in federal court in Alabama opens up the aperture of such defamation claims, and tries to flip the spotlight.
'Doe has now voluntarily admitted directly to representatives of Mr. Carter that the story brought before the world in court and on global television was just that: a false, malicious story,' Jay-Z's unspecified damages seeking filing in Jane Doe's resident state says. 'She has admitted that Mr. Carter did not assault her; and that indeed it was Buzbee himself – whom she met for the first time at a coffee shop in Houston on the day of her maliciously false NBC News interview – who pushed her to go forward with the false narrative of the assault by Mr. Carter in order to leverage a maximum payday,' the complaint, which also has claims of abuse of process and civil conspiracy, adds.
Leaving no stone unturned, the filing also claims that Jane Doe takes a number of medications for 'several mental health disorders.'
For his part, Tony Buzbee isn't exactly feeling all Marquess of Queensberry rules either.
'This new case which alleges the same thing as another one he pieces together and filed in Los Angeles also has no legal merit,' the Lone Star state lawyer said in a statement Monday.
'Shawn Carter's investigators have repeatedly harassed, threatened and harangued this poor woman for weeks trying to intimidate her and make her recant her story,' Buzbee asserted. 'She won't.'
'Instead she has stated repeatedly she stands by her claims. These same group of investigators have been caught on tape offering to pay people to sue me and my firm. This is just another attempt to intimidate and bully this poor woman that we will deal with in due course. We won't be bullied or intimidated by frivolous cases.'
In terms of other cases, Sean Combs is facing dozens of assault and abuse civil suits from Buzbee-represented plaintiffs and others. The Bad Boy Records founder remains behind bars at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center where he has been since his September 16 arrest on criminal charges. Failing on multiple occasions to get released on $50 million bail , Combs is set to go to trial on racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges starting May 5.
If found guilty, the 55-year-old 'All About the Benjamins' performer is looking at a potential sentence of life in prison.
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