JAY-Z accused Jane Doe and her attorneys of constant to unfold false claims and damaging his fame, costing him thousands and thousands.
JAY-Z has escalated his authorized battle, accusing the girl who as soon as sued him for rape and her attorneys of constant 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), concentrating on the nameless girl referred to as Jane Doe and her authorized workforce led by legal professional 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 stated, f### you” based on 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 assist 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 break his public picture.
The submitting alleges Buzbee directed his employees to make over 100 edits to Wikipedia pages tied to his regulation agency in an effort to shine his personal fame whereas tarnishing JAY-Z’s and that of Roc Nation.
The lawsuit additionally names legal professional 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 did not confirm the allegations earlier than shifting ahead.
In line with the criticism, Buzbee and Curis “colluded to extort and defraud Carter by making false rape allegations in opposition to him.”
JAY-Z’s attorneys say the fallout from the false claims value 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 trying to strain JAY-Z right into a settlement by threatening to go public with the accusations until he paid up.
Buzbee has denied the Wikipedia enhancing claims, calling them “laughable and tremendous weak.”
JAY-Z’s authorized workforce insists Doe “had no affordable foundation to assist any of her claims” and “acted with reckless indifference to the reality.”
The case stays lively, with extra courtroom proceedings anticipated within the coming months.
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