JAY-Z accused Jane Doe and her attorneys of continuous to unfold false claims and damaging his repute, costing him tens of millions.
JAY-Z has escalated his authorized battle, accusing the girl who as soon as sued him for rape and her attorneys of continuous to smear his identify even after dropping the case.
The Hip-Hop mogul filed an amended defamation and malicious prosecution lawsuit in Alabama on Tuesday (Might 6), focusing on the nameless girl often known as Jane Doe and her authorized workforce led by lawyer Tony Buzbee.
The up to date criticism calls out a TikTok video Doe posted in April 2025 the place she lip-synced to an aggressive audio clip saying, “You couldn’t pay me one million {dollars} to get an apology video out of me, I stand on what I mentioned, f### you” in keeping with Rolling Stone.
JAY-Z’s authorized workforce claims the video is a part of a broader sample of public statements that present “a surprising and reckless disregard for the reality that’s each intentional and malicious.”
“Doe by no means had any affordable grounds to help any reality in her statements and acted with reckless disregard for the reality,” the criticism states. “In different phrases, she lied.”
Though Doe dropped her lawsuit in February, she has not walked again her allegations that JAY-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped her after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.
JAY-Z’s amended criticism goes additional by accusing Buzbee of orchestrating a marketing campaign to wreck his public picture.
The submitting alleges Buzbee directed his workers to make over 100 edits to Wikipedia pages tied to his legislation agency in an effort to shine his personal repute whereas tarnishing JAY-Z’s and that of Roc Nation.
The lawsuit additionally names lawyer Antigone Curis as a co-conspirator. JAY-Z’s workforce claims she allowed Buzbee to misuse her authorized credentials to file the unique lawsuit and didn’t confirm the allegations earlier than shifting ahead.
In accordance with the criticism, Buzbee and Curis “colluded to extort and defraud Carter by making false rape allegations towards him.”
JAY-Z’s attorneys say the fallout from the false claims price him a $55 million private credit score line and a $115 million mortgage for Roc Nation.
The criticism notes that JAY-Z and Roc Nation are “inextricably linked” and that the reputational hurt impacted each.
The lawsuit accuses Doe and her authorized workforce of making an attempt to stress JAY-Z right into a settlement by threatening to go public with the accusations until he paid up.
Buzbee has denied the Wikipedia modifying claims, calling them “laughable and tremendous weak.”
JAY-Z’s authorized workforce insists Doe “had no affordable foundation to help any of her claims” and “acted with reckless indifference to the reality.”
The case stays energetic, with extra court docket proceedings anticipated within the coming months.
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