Jay-Z rape accuser says her allegation was false

ByIan Youngs

Culture reporter

A pistillate who accused Jay-Z of raping her erstwhile she was 13 has formally said her allegation was untrue.

The unnamed pistillate filed a suit successful 2024 claiming she had been drugged and raped by Jay-Z, existent sanction Shawn Carter, and Sean "Diddy" Combs astatine a enactment aft the MTV Video Music Awards successful 2000.

The stars denied the allegation and she dropped the suit past year. Carter past sued her and her lawyers.

In a connection filed successful that lawsuit connected Thursday, she wrote: "Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter ne'er raped me. I person ne'er met oregon spoken to Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter ne'er engaged successful immoderate inappropriate behaviour toward maine whatsoever."

The woman, known successful tribunal documents by the pseudonym Jane Doe, besides said: "My claims that Mr Carter and Mr Combs raped maine portion a 3rd celebrity, [name redacted] watched are false. There is nary information to immoderate of my claims against Mr Carter.

"I recognize my mendacious accusations person caused Mr Carter immense pain, suffering, and harm that tin ne'er beryllium afloat undone."

Carter had vehemently denied the accusations, saying they were a "blackmail attempt" and describing them arsenic "frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations".

When the accuser dropped her lawsuit successful February 2025, the rapper, who is joined to vocalist Beyoncé, said: "The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I person endured tin ne'er beryllium dismissed."

The woman, from Alabama, has present been removed from Carter's lawsuit.

She said she had not received immoderate wealth from the rap superstar oregon anyone acting connected his behalf, and had not been paid to marque her latest declaration.

The rapper is inactive suing the woman's erstwhile lawyers, led by Tony Buzbee.

In a connection to Rolling Stone, external, which archetypal reported Jane Doe's caller declaration, Buzbee said helium had not seen it.

He said: "We person aggregate lawyers (at slightest four) who dealt with Ms Doe agelong earlier she met me. She gave the nonstop aforesaid communicative to each. If for immoderate crushed present she is claiming she lied to america and the court, that's caller information."

When Carter filed his suit against the pistillate and her lawyers successful February 2025, Buzbee claimed astatine the clip that Carter's investigators had "repeatedly harassed, threatened and harangued this mediocre pistillate for weeks, trying to intimidate her and marque her recant her story".

In her caller declaration, the pistillate said: "I ne'er received immoderate menace from Mr Carter oregon anyone acting connected his behalf."

Setting retired the events that led to her allegation, the pistillate said she saw an advert connected Facebook successful September oregon October 2024 looking for radical who mightiness person intersexual battle claims against Combs. "The advertisement triggered memories of being raped erstwhile I was 13 years old," she said.

She was contacted by a instrumentality steadfast but was not provided with a draught of the suit containing her allegations and did not authorise it earlier it was filed successful October 2024, she said.

She besides said Buzbee and different lawyers acting connected her behalf filed it "without conducting immoderate autarkic investigation, inheritance inquiry, oregon owed diligence, and without obtaining immoderate corroboration of the allegations".

She said: "The October Complaint alleges that Mr Carter and Mr Combs raped maine erstwhile I was a insignificant portion an unnamed personage watched. As discussed above, these allegations were false."

Buzbee besides represents galore different radical who person made allegations against Combs.

Combs denied Jane Doe's claims, which his lawyer described astatine the clip arsenic 1 of a fig of civilian cases "pushed guardant by an lawyer much focused connected media headlines than ineligible merit".

The BBC has contacted Buzbee for comment.

In July 2025, Combs was convicted by a transgression tribunal connected prostitution-related charges involving his 2 ex-girlfriends, and is presently serving a four-year situation sentence.