Jay-Z’s lawyer says in new filing that rape allegations are part of ‘vast extortion saga’

Shawn Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, is fighting back against a lawsuit alleging he and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a 13-year-old girl in 2000.

A civil lawsuit filed against Combs in October by a Jane Doe in the Southern District of New York was amended and refiled on December 8 to include rapper and business mogul Roc Nation as a defendant.

The plaintiff alleges that Combs and Carter sexually assaulted her during a private after-party hosted by Combs after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. When Doe initially filed her lawsuit, it was alleged that an unknown male celebrity (“Celebrity A”) told her in addition to Combs had made a victim. It was also stated that a female celebrity (“Celebrity B”), whose identity has not been made public, was watching.

Carter – who is married to Beyoncé – posted a statement on the Roc Nation X account denying the “horrific” and “idiotic” allegations. He blasted Doe’s Texas-based personal injury attorney, Tony Buzbee, who is filing more than 120 lawsuits against Combs following Combs’ criminal sex trafficking case, alleging that Buzbee tried to blackmail him by sending a “demand letter” before adding Carter to the case . complaint.

Combs previously denied wrongdoing through his lawyers.

Buzbee told the Washington Post that the demand letter his firm sent to Carter on behalf of Doe, who lives in Alabama, requested “a confidential mediation,” not a monetary payment.

Carter’s attorney Alex Spiro has already filed a motion asking the court to bar Doe from proceeding anonymously in this case or to dismiss the case altogether.

Doe’s lawsuit against Carter

Yahoo Entertainment has obtained Doe’s revised lawsuit, which was filed on December 8. It alleges that “Combs and Carter took turns assaulting the minor,” who believes there was liquor in her drink, while “another celebrity stood by and watched.”

Doe claimed that on September 7, 2000, she went to Radio City Music Hall to try to attend the VMAs. The then 13-year-old, who did not have a ticket, could not enter and watched from outside on a jumbotron.

She spoke to limousine drivers parked outside to find out the location of the afterparty. She claimed someone worked for Combs and told her, “Combs liked younger girls” and she “passed what Diddy was looking for.” The driver said he would take Combs to the party and come back to pick her up at the same location. .

When Doe got in the car, it was “about a 20-minute” drive from downtown Manhattan to the party — no exact location was given, other than to say it was held at a “large white residence with an enclosed U-shaped driveway.” .

At Combs’ afterparty, Doe claimed she was asked to sign what she now believes to be a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). She walked around and “recognized many celebrities” and “observed widespread drug use, including marijuana and cocaine.” Doe said she accepted a drink from a waitress and immediately felt “woozy and light-headed, prompting her to lie down.” She did that in an empty bedroom.

“Shortly thereafter, Combs entered the room, along with Defendant Carter and a female celebrity,” Doe’s complaint states. She claimed Combs came toward her “aggressively” with a “crazy look in his eyes.” She said he asked if she was “ready to party” and then threw her against a wall and then onto a bed.

“That’s when Carter started to delete [Doe’s] clothing as she became increasingly disoriented,” the complaint alleges. “[Doe] was held down by Carter as he vaginally raped her, while Combs and Celebrity B watched. After Carter was done… Combs stepped forward and was vaginally raped [Doe] while Carter and Celebrity B watched.”

Doe alleged that Combs then tried to force her to perform oral sex, but she began punching him and punching him in the neck. She said Combs “stepped back in surprise,” giving her a chance to get her shoes and get dressed — which she wrapped around herself like a towel. She said she “ran through the home until she found the front door and was able to leave the party.” She said no one at the party tried to help her.

When she fled the house, Doe said she put on her clothes and ran to a gas station. A female clerk noticed that she was in distress and allowed her to use the telephone to call her father, who picked her up.

The complaint states that Doe experienced “deep depression” after the assault and that it “continues to affect every facet of her life.” She has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and has an epilepsy disorder caused by stress and trauma.

According to Doe’s complaint, before she reinstated her amended lawsuit to include Carter, her counsel sent a legal letter to Carter “requesting mediation to resolve this matter.” It alleges that Carter’s lawyers responded to the letter “by filing an extremely frivolous lawsuit” and accused Carter’s team of “orchestrating a conspiracy of intimidation, harassment and intimidation against [Doe’s] lawyers, their families, employees and former associates in an effort to silence [Doe] of naming Jay-Z.”

Doe’s attorneys claim the attempt was to “scare her” and “discredit her counsel.” She refiled the amended lawsuit “as a result of Carter’s egregious conduct.”

Carter files a motion to dismiss the lawsuit

On December 9, Carter’s attorney Spiro, who had dismissed Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case in July, filed a motion denying Doe’s request to proceed without being named publicly or to have the lawsuit dismissed.

The motion alleged that Carter had waged “an outrageous campaign” for months to “enforce the payment of an exorbitant sum of money” – “millions” – “regardless of the truth.” When Carter “refused to pay” and instead anonymously filed a lawsuit against Buzbee and his law firm on November 18 for “outrageous conduct,” Doe’s amended lawsuit was filed and the “patently false” and “unsubstantiated” allegations are now public.

According to Carter’s filing, this all took place “under the cover of darkness” and they are “seeking either the charges dismissed or” for Doe to “refile her complaint using her real name.”

Carter’s attorney said Doe’s amended complaint makes it clear that her case “is not like that [about] justice, but a quick and large settlement against a celebrity.” It further alleges that Buzbee is behind a “vast extortion saga” in which he seeks to extract large settlements from celebrities, wealthy individuals and companies with any public connection to Sean Combs.

In this case, Carter’s attorney calls him “an upstanding public figure who has never been accused of anything like this in his life” and notes that the star “will vigorously defend himself and expose the truth: that the allegations in the indictment are false .”

Carter and Combs have denied Doe’s allegations

In Carter’s statement on Sunday, the 24-time Grammy winner denied Doe’s “heinous” allegations and accused the “deplorable” Buzbee of “an attempt at blackmail.”

He said his “only heartbreak” was for his family, because he and Beyoncé will have to sit their children down, amid the very public headlines, to talk to them about the “nature of these claims.” He said they would also explain to the children “the cruelty and greed of people.”

Carter said his “heart and support go out to real victims in the world who have to see their life stories being costumed for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.”

Combs – who is currently in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NY, ahead of his 2025 trial on three felony counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, previously denied Doe’s allegations.

“Mr. Combs and his legal team have complete confidence in the facts, their legal defense and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually abused anyone – adult or minor, male or female,” his lawyers said in a statement in October.

The identity of ‘Celebrity B’ remains unknown to the public at this time.

This lawsuit is one of more than thirty complaints filed against Combs in the past year. Buzbee alone has said he plans to file 120 individual sexual assault lawsuits against the Bad Boy Entertainment founder.

Cuba Gooding Jr. was also named as a co-defendant in a sexual abuse and harassment lawsuit filed against Combs by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. Within Jones’ allegations against Combs, he alleged that Gooding sexually harassed and assaulted him on Combs’ yacht. Gooding denied the allegations.