Jay-Z Cleared: Accuser Confesses False R*pe Claims, Never Met Him

The woman who initiated a lawsuit two years ago, alleging r*pe by Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter, has now admitted her accusations were untrue and that she has never encountered the Roc Nation head. In a recent 12-page sworn declaration submitted to a Manhattan federal court, the woman affirmed, “Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter never r@ped me. I have never met or spoken to Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter never engaged in any inappropriate conduct toward me whatsoever.”

She further stated, under penalty of perjury, “There is no truth to any of my claims against Mr. Carter. I understand my false accusations have caused Mr. Carter immense pain, suffering, and damage that can never be fully undone.” This extensive declaration was filed on Thursday, September 24, alongside a notification that Carter was willingly removing the woman as a defendant in his ongoing malicious-prosecution case against prominent attorney Tony Buzbee and his Texas-based law firm.

The Jane Doe affirmed that she received no compensation or promises of it for providing this declaration. James Blair Newman, Jr., the woman’s new legal representative in the malicious prosecution case, issued a statement saying, “Our client maintains that she was a victim of s£xual assault, but she was entirely mistaken in her allegations identifying Mr. Carter, and those allegations were false. Mr. Carter did not r@pe her, s£xually assault her, engage in any inappropriate conduct towards her, and she has never met him. She sincerely and unconditionally apologizes to Mr. Carter and his family.”

These new filings, including the declaration and dismissal, emerged over a year after Carter first launched his federal court lawsuit against the woman and her legal team. He accused them of conspiring to coerce him into a confidential financial settlement “under the threat of devastating harm to his reputation.” Carter’s federal lawsuit was a direct response to a separate lawsuit initially filed by the woman in October 2024, which accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of r*ping her at age 13 and also implicated an unnamed “male celebrity” in s£xual assault.

In his legal submissions, Carter claimed that Buzbee dispatched an “extortionate demand letter” to him in November 2024. Following Carter’s refusal to comply, the lawsuit was reportedly amended in December 2024 to identify Carter as the previously anonymous celebrity defendant. Carter, who shares three children with singer Beyonce, vehemently denied the r*pe allegation when it first came to light. He also disclosed that he had already sued Buzbee for extortion in California state court in November 2024, using a John Doe pseudonym. In a sworn affidavit, Carter described the demand letter as an “existential threat.”

“I felt that Mr. Buzbee was placing a gun to my head that I either bow to his demands or endure personal and financial ruin. His actions caused me mental anguish about the ticking time bomb and what it would do to me, my family, and my hard-earned reputation,” Carter wrote. Jane Doe subsequently chose to voluntarily dismiss her entire complaint against both Carter and Combs in early 2025, acknowledging inconsistencies in her account. A judge later dismissed Carter’s California-based extortion lawsuit, a decision recently upheld by an appeals court, which concluded that Buzbee’s demand letter was protected as it was sent in anticipation of legal action.

Associate Justice Anne Richardson, in the unanimous ruling from California’s Second Appellate District earlier this month, stated, “The record contains no evidence Buzbee accused Carter of r@ping Jane Doe while knowing those statements to be false or with reckless disregard as to whether they were true. To the contrary, Buzbee submitted declarations showing his firm’s and [a referral firm’s] investigations led him to subjectively believe in the truth of the accusations.”

This California ruling leaves Carter’s malicious-prosecution lawsuit in New York as his sole remaining case against Buzbee and his firm. Carter contends that they should have recognized, prior to filing the Jane Doe lawsuit, that her claims “were contradicted by publicly available information, internally inconsistent, and unsupported by any credible story or investigation.” Buzbee informed Rolling Stone on Thursday, September 24, that he had not yet reviewed Jane Doe’s new declaration. He commented, “We have multiple lawyers (at least four) who dealt with Ms. Doe long before she met me. She gave the exact same story to each. If for some reason now she is claiming she lied to us and the court, that’s new information.”

In her latest declaration, the Jane Doe explained that her legal journey began when she responded to a Facebook advertisement in late September or early October 2024, seeking individuals with s£xual assault claims against Sean Combs. She asserted in the new filing, “The ad triggered memories of being r@ped when I was 13 years old.” She elaborated that she clicked the advertisement, completed a form, and subsequently received a call requesting additional details. During this call, she recounted stating she was a model who attended an afterparty following the Teen Choice Awards in 2000 in New York City. Her subsequent lawsuit erroneously claimed the event was the MTV Video Music Awards. The woman’s initial October 2024 legal action.