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Jay-Z Sues Jane Doe Rape Accuser, Claiming She Admitted to Lying

Jay-Z sued his Jane Doe rape accuser for defamation on Monday, saying she admitted to fabricating her claim against him.

In his new lawsuit filed Monday and obtained by Rolling Stone, Jay-Z says the woman and her lawyers — Tony Buzbee and David Fortney — engaged in an “evil conspiracy” to extort him with the “completely fabricated” and “wildly horrific” claim that he raped Doe alongside Combs in 2000. The woman first revealed her claim in an October lawsuit that alleged Combs and an unidentified male celebrity took turns violently raping her at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards when she was 13 years old. In a sworn statement filed in the Los Angeles case last month, Carter said it was no exaggeration that he viewed Buzbee’s promise to name him in the rape lawsuit as an “existential threat” to his reputation, career, and family.

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