Tables Turned: Jay-Z Sues Former Accuser and Her Lawyer Over Sexual Assault Allegations
Written by Tariq on March 4, 2025
On Monday, March 3, Jay-Z filed a lawsuit against attorney Tony Buzbee, David Fortney and their Jane Doe client over the previously dropped alleged sexual assault suit, according to Alabama court documents obtained by PEOPLE. Jay-Z proposed three causes of action: malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and civil conspiracy against all three defendants. He also proposed a fourth cause of action, defamation against the Jane Doe. He is seeking assumed, actual and punitive damages. Jay-Z claimed in the new filing that the initial allegations of rape against him were knowingly “false” and “malicious.” He added that the sexual assault suit was “strategically and tactically calculated and time to inflict maximum pain and suffering” to him. The previous suit, which was originally filed on Oct. 20, 2024, claimed that Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in 2000. Buzbee and fellow attorney Antigone Curis had the suit voluntarily dismissed on Friday, Feb. 14. In his March 3 filing, Jay-Z alleges in a new suit that the Oct. 20 lawsuit was founded on false information from the Jane Doe and her lawyers. The filing alleges that the Jane Doe and her lawyers “launched to extort” the rapper “through a menacing ‘private’ ‘demand letter,’ ” adding that the “malicious” defendants made “a desperate attempt to leverage Mr. Carter into an extortionate payoff.” The filing stated that the Jane Doe “voluntarily admitted” to Jay-Z’s representative that “Carter did not assault her” and that Buzbee “pushed her to go forward with the false narrative of the assault by Mr. Carter in order to leverage a maximum payday.” It also stated that Jay-Z “brings this lawsuit to hold Doe accountable for her willful defamation per se and her malicious prosecution of knowingly false allegations against” Jay-Z.
Source: People
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