Jane Doe Who Accused Jay-Z of Sexual Assault Formally Recants Her Claims
She says the lawsuit was filed without her authorization and that she never met the rapper, while his lawyer disputes her account.
- On Thursday, Jane Doe filed a 12-page declaration in Manhattan federal court recanting her sexual assault allegations against Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter, stating "Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter never raped me. I have never met or spoken to Mr. Carter."
- The allegations stemmed from a 2024 lawsuit claiming Doe was drugged and raped by Carter and Sean 'Diddy' Combs at a 2000 MTV Video Music Awards afterparty when she was 13. Carter vehemently denied them as a "blackmail attempt" and "frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations."
- In her declaration, Doe claimed she responded to a Facebook advertisement in autumn 2024 seeking assault allegations against Combs, which "triggered memories of being raped when I was 13 years old," and alleged her lawsuit was filed without her knowledge or authorization.
- Following Doe's recantation, Carter is dropping his lawsuit against her, while her new lawyer James Blair Newman Jr. said she maintains being assaulted but was "entirely mistaken" in identifying Carter and "sincerely and unconditionally apologises to Mr. Carter and his family."
- Buzbee disputed Doe's account, claiming multiple lawyers heard the same story before he met her, while a March 2025 recording showed Doe saying Carter "didn't have anything" to do with the alleged acts—though Buzbee called it a "pieced-together fabrication.
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The rapper was deeply affected by the accusations.
The plaintiff's lawyers claim that he did suffer sexual assault, but not from musician Shawn Carter's hands.
"Jay-Z never raped me. I never met or talked to Jay-Z. He never had any kind of inappropriate conduct for me," acknowledged the woman who accused the rapper of raping her in 2000.
The woman alleged that Jay-Z raped her along with Diddy when she was 13.
The woman who accused American rapper Sean Carter, known as Jay-Z, of sexual violence, completely retracted her statements, confessing that she was not even familiar with the musician, wrote Rolling Stone magazine. A woman who had previously claimed harassment by American performer Sean Carter, known as Jay-Z, confessed to the perjury of her testimony, transmitted RIA "news" with reference to Rolling Stone. She reported that she had never met a …
Jay-Z's accuser fully recants rape allegations in new filing
An anonymous woman who accused rap mogul Jay-Z of raping her at a 2000 afterparty has fully withdrawn her allegations, telling a Manhattan federal court in a new sworn declaration that she never met him.
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