Lawsuit Accusing Jay-Z of Sexual Assault Dropped

• Rapper Jay-Z was named in a civil lawsuit in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs in December.
• The lawsuit accused each leisure moguls of sexually assaulting a minor.
• The legal professional for the Jane Doe plaintiff who filed the swimsuit dropped the case on Friday.

A lawsuit that tangled rapper Jay-Z right into a authorized battle regarding sexual assault allegations in opposition to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was dropped on Friday, courtroom paperwork confirmed.

In a discover filed Friday in Manhattan federal courtroom, attorneys representing the “Jane Doe” plaintiff who introduced ahead the lawsuit in opposition to the 2 music moguls stated the case was “voluntarily dismissed with prejudice.”

Tony Buzbee, a high-profile lawyer representing the plaintiff, declined to remark.

Combs’ authorized workforce instructed Enterprise Insider in an electronic mail that the “full dismissal” of the lawsuit was “yet one more affirmation that these lawsuits are constructed on falsehoods, not information.”

Of their assertion, Combs’ attorneys denied that their consumer ever dedicated sexual assault or was concerned in human trafficking.

Dropping the lawsuit with prejudice means the plaintiff is not going to be allowed to convey the identical case again to courtroom, Neama Rahmani, a private damage legal professional and president of West Coast Trial Attorneys, instructed BI.

Dozens of authorized instances have been introduced in opposition to Combs, one of the vital influential figures in hip-hop historical past, containing allegations of sexual assault, bodily abuse, or intercourse trafficking.

On September 16, a federal grand jury indicted Combs on felony costs, together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering. Combs, who has denied the fees, has remained at a detention heart in Brooklyn since his arrest that month.

A separate lawsuit, unrelated to the grand jury indictment, was filed in October by a Jane Doe. The lawsuit accused Combs of drugging and raping a 13-year-old woman at a home celebration. Attorneys wrote within the swimsuit that the plaintiff sought damages to be decided at a trial.

The preliminary submitting contained references to “one other male superstar, Superstar A,” who was additionally accused, within the lawsuit, of partaking within the sexual assault of a minor.

In December, attorneys representing the plaintiff revealed in an amended criticism that that superstar was Jay-Z, whose actual identify is Shawn Carter.

“The pleading speaks for itself,” Buzbee stated in a press release on the time. “This can be a very critical matter that shall be litigated in courtroom.”

Carter denied the allegations and, in a private assertion posted on social media, stated Buzbee was blackmailing him into settling out of courtroom.

“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a prison criticism, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a criminal offense in opposition to a minor needs to be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve actual justice if that had been the case,” the assertion stated.

The state of New York handed the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act in 2022, which supplies a lookback window for folks to file civil claims relating to an incident which will have occurred greater than 9 years in the past till February 28, 2025.

Provided that the lookback window is closing and the Jane Doe’s attorneys filed to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice, Rahmani stated the case is “just about useless within the water.”

In a authorized submitting from January, Carter sought to dismiss the lawsuit and place financial sanctions in opposition to Buzbee. That submitting stated the Jane Doe’s case contained “substantial inaccuracies,” together with an NBC Information interview with the Jane Doe’s father, who appeared to contradict a few of the particulars outlined within the civil lawsuit.

The lawsuit, for instance, stated that the 13-year-old was picked up from the after-party the place she was assaulted. Her father stated he had no reminiscence of selecting up his younger daughter from the occasion.

Rahmani stated the plaintiff’s attorneys’ transfer to dismiss the lawsuit involving Carter will possible haven’t any affect on the handfuls of ongoing authorized battles in opposition to Combs

“I do not suppose it is gonna transfer the needle,” he stated.