Shawn Carter, understood properly as Jay-Z, is resisting versus a legal action affirming that he raped a 13-year-old lady together with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000.
A civil suit submitted versus Combs by a Jane Doe in the Southern Area of New York City in October was changed and refiled on Dec. 8 to consist of the rap artist and Roc Country company magnate as an offender.
The complainant declares that Combs and Carter sexually attacked her at an exclusive after-party held by Combs adhering to the 2000 MTV Video Clip Songs Honors. When Doe originally submitted her suit, it affirmed that an unknown man celeb (” Star A”) victimized her together with Combs. It additionally specified that a women celeb (” Star B”), whose identification has actually not been revealed, viewed.
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Carter– that is wed to Beyoncé– uploaded a declaration on the Roc Country X account refuting the “grievous” and “idiotic” claims. He banged Doe’s Texas-based injury attorney, Tony Buzbee, that is bringing over 120 legal actions versus Combs on the heels of Combs’s sex trafficking criminal instance, affirming that Buzbee attempted to blackmail him by sending out a “need letter” prior to including Carter to the issue.
Combs formerly rejected misdeed via his lawyers.
Buzbee informed the Washington Post that the need letter his company sent out to Carter in support of Doe, that lives in Alabama, asked for “a personal arbitration,” not a financial settlement.
Carter’s lawyer Alex Spiro has actually currently submitted a movement asking the court to reject Doe from having the ability to continue anonymously in this instance or to reject the instance entirely.
Doe’s suit claims versus Carter
Yahoo Enjoyment got Doe’s changed suit, which was submitted Dec. 8. It declares “Combs and Carter took turns attacking the small,” that thinks her beverage was surged, while “an additional celeb waited and viewed.”
Doe declared that on Sept. 7, 2000, she mosted likely to Radio City Songs Hall to attempt to participate in the VMAs. The then-13-year-old, that had no ticket, could not enter and viewed from outdoors on a jumbotron.
She talked with limo chauffeurs parked outside to figure out the place of the after-party. She declared one apparently helped Combs and informed her “Combs suched as more youthful ladies” and she “‘ fit what Diddy was searching for.'” The chauffeur claimed he would certainly take Combs to the event and return and choose her up at the exact same place.

Sean “Diddy” Combs with then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez getting to the 2000 MTV VMAS at Radio City Songs Hall. (Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect)
When Doe got involved in the vehicle, it was an “around 20-minute” drive from midtown Manhattan to the event– no precise place is kept in mind aside from it was held at a “big white house with a gated U-shaped driveway.”
At Combs’s after-party, Doe declared she was asked to authorize what she currently thinks was a nondisclosure contract (NDA). She walked and “acknowledged lots of celebs” and “observed extensive substance abuse, consisting of cannabis and drug.” Doe claimed she approved a beverage from a waitress and promptly really felt “woozy and lightheaded, making her requirement to rest.” She did so in a vacant room.
” Not Long After, Combs went into the space, together with offender Carter and a women celeb,” Doe’s issue states. She declared Combs came with her “strongly” with a “rabid search in his eyes.” She claimed he asked if she was “all set to event” and after that tossed her towards a wall surface and after that onto the bed.
” Then, Carter started getting rid of [Doe’s] clothing as she expanded an increasing number of dizzy,” the issue declares. “[Doe] was held back by Carter as he vaginally raped her, while Combs and Star B enjoyed. After Carter ended up … Combs after that advance and vaginally raped [Doe] while Carter and Star B enjoyed.”

Jay-Z at the 2000 MTV VMAs. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
Doe declared Combs after that tried to compel her to execute foreplay, however she began punching and struck him in the neck. She claimed Combs “pulled back in shock,” providing her an opportunity to order her footwear and outfit– which she twisted around herself like a towel. She claimed she “ran around the house till she discovered the front door and had the ability to leave the event.” She claimed no one at the event tried to assist her.
Once she left your house, Doe claimed she placed on her clothing and went to a gasoline station. A women staff saw she remained in distress and enabled her to make use of the phone to call her dad, that selected her up.
The issue mentions Doe experienced “deep clinical depression” after the sexual offense and it “remains to influence every aspect of her life.” She has actually been identified with trauma (PTSD) and has a seizure problem brought on by tension and injury.
According to Doe’s issue, before refiling her changed suit to consist of Carter, her advise sent out a lawful letter to Carter “asking for an arbitration to fix this issue.” It declares Carter’s attorneys reacted to the letter “by submitting an absolutely unimportant suit” and charged Carter’s group of “coordinating a conspiracy theory of harassment, harassing and scare tactics versus [Doe’s] attorneys, their family members, workers and previous partners in an effort to silence [Doe] from calling Jay-Z.”
Doe’s lawyers assert the initiative was to “frighten” her and “challenge her advise.” She refiled the changed suit “as an outcome of the outright conduct bolstered by Carter.”
Carter data to reject suit
On Dec. 9, Carter’s lawyer Spiro, that obtained Alec Baldwin’s spontaneous homicide instance rejected in July, submitted a movement refuting Doe’s demand to continue without being openly called or to have actually the suit rejected.
The movement specified that for months, “an extravagant project” targeted Carter to “compel settlement of an inflated amount of cash”– “millions”– “regardless of the reality.” When Carter “declined to pay” and rather anonymously submitted a legal action on Nov. 18 versus Buzbee and his law practice for “outrageous conduct,” Doe’s changed suit was submitted and the “patently incorrect” and “misguided” claims are currently public.
According to Carter’s declaring, this has actually all played out “under cover of darkness” and they are “looking for either termination of the claims or” for Doe to “refile her issue with her real name.”
Carter’s attorney claimed Doe’s changed issue explains that her instance is “not [about] justice, however a fast and big negotiation versus a celeb.” It better declares that Buzbee lags a “expansive extortion legend” in which he attempts to remove big negotiations from celebs, high-net-worth people, and organizations with any type of public connections to Sean Combs.”
In this instance, Carter’s lawyer calls him “an upstanding somebody that has actually never ever been charged of anything such as this in his life” and keeps in mind the celebrity will certainly “strongly protect himself and reveal the reality: that the claims in the issue are incorrect.”
Carter and Combs have actually rejected Doe’s claims
In Carter’s declaration on Sunday, the 24-time Grammy victor rejected Doe’s “grievous” claims and charged “awful” Buzbee of “a blackmail effort.”
He claimed his “just broken heart” was for his family members due to the fact that he and Beyoncé will certainly need to rest their youngsters down, amidst the really public headings, to speak to them regarding the “nature of these cases.” He claimed they would certainly additionally discuss to the youngsters “the viciousness and greed of individuals.”
Carter claimed his “heart and assistance heads out to real sufferers on the planet, that need to see exactly how their life tale is worn outfit for productivity by this rescue chaser in an inexpensive match.”

Sean Combs and Jay-Z at the 2020 Roc Country breakfast. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Country)
Combs– that is presently in Metropolitan Apprehension Facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., in advance of his 2025 test on 3 felony matters of racketeering conspiracy theory, sex trafficking and transport to participate in hooking, formerly rejected Doe’s claims.
” Mr. Combs and his lawful group have complete self-confidence in the realities, their lawful defenses, and the stability of the judicial procedure. In court, the reality will certainly dominate: that Mr. Combs has actually never ever sexually attacked any individual– grown-up or small, guy or female,” his attorneys claimed in a declaration in October.
The identification of “Star B” continues to be unidentified to the general public now.
This suit is amongst greater than 30 problems submitted versus Combs in the previous year. Buzbee alone has actually claimed he prepares to bring 120 private sexual offense legal actions versus the Bad Child Enjoyment owner.
Cuba Gooding Jr. was additionally called a co-defendant in a sexual offense and harassment suit submitted versus Combs by songs manufacturer Rodney “Lil Pole” Jones. Within Jones’s claims versus Combs, he declared Gooding sexually pestered and attacked him on Combs’s private yacht. Gooding rejected the claims.