Jay-Z Sexual Assault Accuser Fully Recants Her Accusation: ‘These Allegations Were False’
Categoria: Musica
Two years after shocking accusations, the woman behind them says they weren't true — and that her lawyers filed them without "any independent investigation."
Por Billboard | 25/09/2026
A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her as a 13-year-old girl has fully recanted her allegations, telling a federal judge that her claims were “false,” that she had mental health issues and that her ex-attorneys filed the bombshell case with little due diligence. In new court documents filed Thursday (Sept. 24) in a lawsuit Jay-Z brought against the accuser and her former lawyer Tony Buzbee, the unnamed Jane Doe disavows the claims made in her shocking 2024 lawsuit , saying explicitly that he “never raped me” and that she has “never met or spoken to Mr. Carter.” Related Diddy Parts With Elite New York Law Firm Over Money Dispute: ‘Total Breakdown in Cooperation’ Billboard to Add Smart Media Albums As Chart-Eligible Sales Formats Duane 'Keffe D' Davis Gives First Interview After Tupac Shakur Murder Conviction “Mr. Carter never engaged in any inappropriate conduct toward me whatsoever,” the woman writes in the document, signed under penalty of perjury. “I understand my false accusations have caused Mr. Carter immense pain, suffering, and damage that can never be fully undone.” In the same filing, Doe says she had only one phone call with her attorneys before they filed the initial case. She believes Buzbee and her other ex-lawyers filed it “without conducting any independent investigation, background inquiry, or due diligence, and without obtaining any corroboration of the allegations.” Doe also claims that she disclosed that she had “mental health conditions” to her attorneys before they filed the claims against Jay-Z, but that they “never asked any questions about whether this affected my memory and recollection of the allegation.” And she says they later gave her $1,000 cash before a high-profile NBC News interview on her accusations. Buzbee did not immediately return a request for comment from Billboard . In a statement to Billboard , Doe’s new attorney J. Blair Newman said: “Our client maintains that she was a victim of sexual assault, but she was entirely mistaken in her allegations identifying Mr. Carter, and those allegations were false.” He later added: “She sincerely and unconditionally apologizes to Mr. Carter and his family.” The new court filing says Doe has “not received or been promised any monetary compensation” in return for making her recantation and that she was making it “voluntarily and on my own free will.” But it came alongside a motion voluntarily dropping her as a target of the Jay-Z lawsuit. Buzbee, who filed dozens of abuse cases against Sean “ Diddy ” Combs during the mogul’s fall from grace, added Jay-Z to one of them in December 2024. The stunning claims alleged that the two stars had drugged and assaulted a teen girl during an after-party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. Jay-Z strongly denied the accusations and fought back aggressively, claiming Buzbee and his unnamed client had fabricated the claims in an effort to extort him. He called the case a “blackmail attempt” and vowed to