JAY-Z Speaks Out After Accuser Acknowledges 'Mistakes' In Her Allegations
By Tony M. Centeno
December 16, 2024
The woman who accused JAY-Z and Diddy of raping her when she was 13 has acknowledged some holes in her initial allegations.
On Friday, December 13, NBC News aired an in-depth interview with "Jane Doe" in which they discovered inconsistencies with the unidentified woman's account of the alleged incident. The woman, who's now 38 and lives in Alabama, anonymously spoke with the news outlet and admitted she "made some mistakes" when she told her attorneys about the night she was alleged raped by both rappers in 2000.
“This incident didn’t happen and yet he filed it in court and doubled down in the press,” Hov said in a statement.
“True Justice is coming," he continued. "We fight FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over before it began. This 1-800 lawyer doesn’t realize it yet, but, soon.”
In the original lawsuit, Jane Doe claimed she was waiting outside Radio City Music Hall in New York City to see her favorite celebrities come out of the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. She described a man in a limo who said she “fit what Diddy was looking for,” and offered to take her to a white house for an after-party. While at the party, Jane Doe claimed she sipped on a drink that made her feel light-headed and found an empty room to lie down. That's when she said Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter entered the room with an unidentified female celebrity.
“JAY-Z comes over, holds me down," the woman explained. "I start trying to push away. He puts his hand over my mouth, tells me to stop it, to cut the shit, and then he rapes me like he had me overpowered."
After the incident, Jane Doe said she escaped and ran to a gas station where she called her father to pick her up and take her home. At the time, she lived five hours north of the city with her family. However, according to NBC News' investigation, her father doesn't recall picking her up at all.
“I feel like I would remember that, and I don’t,” Jane Doe's father said. “I have a lot going on, but I mean, that’s something that would definitely stick in my mind."
During the interview, Jane Doe also claimed she spoke to musicians Fred Durst and Benji Madden at the after-party. A rep for Madden said neither Benji nor his brother Joel were in New York City at the time of the awards show. They were touring in the Midwest at the time. The outlet also confirmed both JAY-Z and Diddy attended an after-party at Lotus nightclub that night. However, the woman's description of the party where the raped allegedly happened didn't match the now-defunct Lotus' location.
“It is stunning that a lawyer would not only file such a serious complaint without proper vetting, but would make things worse by further peddling this false story in the press," JAY-Z's attorney Alex Spiro said in a statement. "We are asking the Court to dismiss this frivolous case today, and will take up the matter of additional discipline for Mr. Buzbee and all the lawyers that filed the complaint.”
Attorney Tony Buzbee filed Jane Doe's lawsuit in October. At the time, he only named Combs in the lawsuit. Hov accused Buzbee of trying to blackmail him by threatening to release his name to the press if he didn't agree to a settlement. Buzbee denied the claims and emphasized that his client believes her allegations are true "to the best of her memory."
We will continue to vet her claims and collect corroborating data to the extent it exists," Buzbee said in a statement. "Because we have interrogated her intensely, she has even agreed to submit to a polygraph. I’ve never had a client suggest that before. In any event, we always do our best to vet each claim made, just as we did in this case. This has been extremely distressing for her, to the point she has experienced seizures and had to seek medical treatment due to the stress.”
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