Woman recants rape allegation against Jay-Z in court filing
A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has withdrawn the allegation in a declaration filed in his defamation case. She said she had never met or spoken with him and that there was no truth to her claims. Jay-Z’s lawyers are dropping her as a defendant.
A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her in a 2024 civil lawsuit has recanted the allegation and said she had never met or spoken with him. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in court papers, filed a declaration in a defamation case brought by Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. She had alleged that Carter and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped her in 2000, when she was 13.
In the filing, she wrote that there was “no truth to any of my claims” against Carter. She said Carter had never raped her and had not engaged in inappropriate conduct toward her. She also said Combs had not raped her.
The woman said she had not been paid for her statements. She had previously dropped the civil lawsuit, after which Carter sued her and her law firm for defamation and malicious prosecution. According to her declaration, she contacted the law firm after seeing a Facebook advertisement seeking information from people who might have been harmed by Combs.
She said she completed an online form and was later contacted by lawyers. She alleged that the lawsuit was filed weeks later without independent investigation, background checks or corroboration, and that she had not been shown a draft before it was filed. Carter’s lawyers said in court papers that they were dropping her as a defendant in the defamation case.
Representatives for Carter declined to comment, while Combs’s lawyers did not immediately respond, according to the supplied report.
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