Jay-Z is suing his former rape accuser, claiming she has admitted her story was false.
Weeks after the woman identified only as Jane Doe dropped her allegations, the musician is suing her and her lawyers for malicious prosecution and abuse of process.
Jay-Z is suing his accuser and her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, in an Alabama court, claiming they conspired to falsely accuse him of sexual assault and allegedly caused him to lose at least $20 million.
The hip-hop icon, real name Shawn Carter, claims the defendants "were soullessly motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts of human decency", according to the complaint obtained by Page Six.
Jay-Z is suing for malicious prosecution, abuse of process, civil conspiracy and defamation. He alleges in the court documents that Doe has "voluntarily admitted" that Buzbee "pushed her towards going forward with the false story against Mr Carter" after an "extortionate demand letter failed to yield the financial windfall".
"Buzbee brought Jay-Z into it," Doe allegedly admitted, according to the court filing.
Doe sat down with NBC News in December 2024 and alleged in an on-camera interview, in which her identity was concealed, that the Can I Get A... rapper raped her at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in New York in 2000 when she was 13.
Doe has since publicly admitted to "inconsistencies" in her story.
