Jay-Z has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Jane Doe who accused him of sexual assault and her lawyer Tony Buzbee
Jay-Z is reportedly suing his former rape accuser and her lawyer, Tony Buzbee.
According to court docs obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, March 3, that Jay-Z, 55, is suing his accuser — referred to in court documents as Jane Doe — and Buzbee for abuse of process, malicious prosecution, civil conspiracy and defamation.
The lawsuit was reportedly filed in an Alabama court and alleged that Jay-Z’s accuser and Buzbee conspired to falsely accuse him of sexual assault, allegedly causing him to lose $20 million. Lawyer David Fortney is also named as a defendant in the suit.
In his complaint, the rapper (real name Shawn Carter) claims that the defendants “were soullessly motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts of human decency,” per court documents.
Court documents also reportedly claim that Doe “voluntarily admitted” that Buzbee, her lawyer, “pushed her towards going forward with the false story against Mr. Carter” after an “extortionate demand letter failed to yield the financial windfall.”
Doe allegedly admitted that “Buzbee brought Jay-Z into it,” according to his filing, which also claimed that Buzbee had met Doe “for the first time at a coffee shop in Houston on the day of her maliciously false NBC News interview.”
“This new case alleges the same claims as the other one they pieced together and filed in Los Angeles,” Buzbee said in a statement to Us Weekly.
