Jay-Z was accused of raping a 13yo girl. He’s called the latest update a ‘victory’.

An anonymous woman who accused Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Sean "Diddy" Combs of raping her in 2000 when she was 13 has dismissed her civil lawsuit against the hip-hop moguls.

A filing in federal court in Manhattan said the plaintiff, referred to only as Jane Doe, voluntarily dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning she cannot bring it again.

Tony Buzbee, a lawyer for the woman, declined to comment.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs is still facing multiple lawsuits from men and women accusing him of misconduct. The Doe lawsuit was the only one to name Carter as a defendant, and he vehemently denied the woman's claims.

"Today is a victory," Carter said in a statement posted online on Friday by his entertainment company Roc Nation.

"The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil suit was without merit and never going anywhere.

"The fictional tale they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims. I would not wish this experience on anyone."

Carter said the case also caused trauma for his wife Beyoncé and their children, daughter Blue Ivy and twins, Rumi and Sir.

Meanwhile, Diddy still faces dozens of other civil lawsuits by women and men, including many represented by Buzbee's firm, who accused him of sexual assault and other misconduct.

Combs has pleaded not guilty in the criminal case, and maintained his innocence in all of the cases.

He is currently in a Brooklyn jail awaiting a scheduled May 5 criminal trial on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

In a joint statement, Combs' lawyers maintained that their client has never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone.

"We will continue to fight these baseless claims and hold those responsible," the lawyers said.

"This is just the first of many that will not hold up in a court of law."

Doe accused Carter and Combs of raping her at an afterparty following the 2000 MTV Music Video Awards, when she was 13 years old.

She said the alleged incident caused depression that led to post-traumatic stress disorder and her being "largely withdrawn from society".

Carter was named in the sexual assault lawsuit in December 2024.

The lawsuit was originally filed against Combs in October 2024 by attorney Tony Buzbee, and was updated and refiled to include Shawn Carter. 

This is the first of Buzbee's many suits (numbering into the hundreds), that names another high-profile celebrity. 

In the hours following Carter being named in the lawsuit, he walked the red carpet with his family in Los Angeles for Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King, alongside his mother-in-law Tina Knowles, and the movie's stars Beyoncé and Blue Ivy.

Tina Knowles, Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Carter at the Los Angeles premiere of Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King. Image: Getty.

In response to the original suit, Carter denied the allegations, calling them "heinous" and lawyer Buzbee "deplorable".

"My lawyer received a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a 'lawyer' named Tony Buzbee. What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle," he wrote.

"No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion. So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!

"These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?

"These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case."

Read Jay-Z's original full statement here:

"My lawyer received a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a "lawyer" named Tony Buzbee. What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle.

No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion. So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!

These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.

This lawyer, who I have done a bit of research on, seems to have a pattern of these type of theatrics! I have no idea how you have come to be such a deplorable human Mr. Buzbee, but I promise you I have seen your kind many times over. I'm more than prepared to deal with your type. You claim to be a marine?! Marines are known for their valor, you have neither honor nor dignity.

My only heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to endure such at their young age. It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit.

My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.

You have made a terrible error in judgement thinking that all "celebrities" are the same. I'm not from your moral world. I'm a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don't play these types of games. We have very strict codes and honor. We protect children, you seem to exploit people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable.

I look forward to showing you just how different I am."

Attorney Tony Buzbee's response.

Tony Buzbee replied to Carter's words with his own statement posted on social media platform X.

"What [Jay-Z] fails to say in his recent statement is my firm sent his lawyer a demand letter on behalf of an alleged victim and that victim never demanded a penny from him. Instead, she only sought a confidential mediation," the statement read.

"Since I sent the letter on her behalf, Mr. Carter has not only sued me, but he has tried to bully and harass me and this plaintiff. His conduct has had the opposite impact. She is emboldened. I'm very proud of her resolve.

Now, however, Buzbee's client has dismissed the case.

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Written with AAP.

This article was originally published on December 10, 2024, and has since been updated with new information.

Feature Image: Getty.