The lady who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has recanted her allegations in opposition to the music mogul.
In a submitting Thursday from legal professionals representing Jay-Z, whose actual title is Shawn Carter, the previous accuser says that her allegations in opposition to the rapper had been “false,” including that she “by no means met Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter by no means engaged in any inappropriate conduct towards me in any respect. There isn’t any reality to any of my claims in opposition to Mr. Carter.”
Within the submitting, she added that she falsely claimed that Carter and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped her whereas watched by one other celeb, whose title is redacted.
The submitting is a part of Carter’s ongoing malicious prosecution lawsuit in opposition to the girl’s former legal professional, Tony Buzbee, which was filed in February 2025 in New York. Carter’s legal professionals mentioned this week they had been dropping the girl, often known as Jane Doe, from the go well with.
Buzbee, Jane Doe, and representatives for Carter and Combs didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. Combs is serving a sentence in federal jail after he was convicted in July 2025 of prostitution-related crimes, in a separate case.
The lady got here ahead in December 2024, in a civil lawsuit filed by Buzbee, accusing Carter and Combs of raping her at a home celebration following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, which had been held in New York. Days after the go well with was filed, she sat down with NBC Information for an interview and doubled down on her claims. However after NBC Information identified inconsistencies in her account, she mentioned in a subsequent cellphone interview that she had “made some errors.”
On the time, Combs’ attorneys described the go well with as a “shameful cash seize” whereas Carter’s lawyer Alex Spiro known as it a “frivolous case.”
In February 2025, Jane Doe dropped her lawsuit with prejudice, that means she couldn’t file it once more.
On this week’s submitting, Jane Doe writes: “I perceive that my false accusations have triggered Mr. Carter immense ache, struggling, and injury that may by no means be absolutely undone. I sincerely and unconditionally apologize to Mr. Carter for the devastating hurt I’ve triggered to him, his household and his fame.”
She additionally says within the submitting that Buzbee and his crew paid her $1,000 earlier than sitting down for NBC Information’ interview.
In a separate go well with, Jay-Z initially sued Buzbee in 2024 in California, accusing Buzbee of extortion and defamation. It was dismissed in June 2025, and the California Courtroom of Appeals affirmed that call earlier this month. Representatives for Buzbee and his regulation agency known as the appeals courtroom’s ruling “an entire vindication for our shoppers.”
