Last month, rap mogul Shawn Carter, aka Jay Z, filed a lawsuit against Houston attorney Tony Buzbee for slandering his good name. This week the embattled rapper moved forward with a lawsuit against his former accuser, Jane Doe.
The unnamed Alabama woman accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 years old. The incident allegedly happened after the MTV Video Music Awards in New York in 2000.
But the details of what happened that night were sketchy and Jane Doe’s father said he never picked her up from New York City that night.
As reported earlier, Buzbee dropped the sex assault lawsuit against Jay-Z, Sean Combs and Bad Boy, LLC. The lawsuit can’t be filed again.
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According to Variety, Jay-Z sued Buzbee for knowingly making “false” and “malicious,” allegations that were “strategically and tactically calculated and timed to inflict maximum pain and suffering on Mr. Carter.”
Jay-Z’s attorneys claimed that Jane Doe had informed Buzbee that her story was made up — that the rapper “did not sexually assault [her],” and that Buzbee pushed her to go forward with the false allegations against Jay-Z to extort him for more money.
However, Jay-Z is suing Doe anyway. His lawsuit notes that he “does not commence this action lightly,” and that he doesn’t want to expose Doe’s identity to the world despite the pain and suffering she caused him and his family.
But, the suit continues, Jay-Z does want to “hold Doe accountable for her willful defamation… and her malicious prosecution of knowingly false allegations.”
