Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, was accused Sunday in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old woman in 2000 with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The lawsuit, which was first filed again in October, had initially listed Combs because the defendant. It has since been refiled to call Carter as properly. The accusation comes from an nameless “Jane Doe,” who claimed Combs and Carter raped her in 2000 after they’d introduced her to an MTV Music Video Awards afterparty.

In a fiery response on Sunday afternoon, Jay-Z claimed his lawyer was despatched “blackmail” surrounding the allegations from legal professional Tony Buzbee in an effort to strain him into settling out of courtroom. Carter went on to say that it had the “reverse impact” and as an alternative enflamed Carter to reveal his accusor for “the fraud [they] are in a VERY public trend.”

“You will have made a horrible error in judgment considering that each one ‘celebrities’ are the identical. I’m not out of your ethical world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the mission of Brooklyn,” Carter wrote. “We don’t play most of these video games. We have now very strict codes and honor. We defend youngsters, you appear to take advantage of folks for private achieve. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, pretend physics, will imagine the idiotic claims you may have levied in opposition to me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to youngsters, could be laughable.” His reponse seems in full beneath.

Combs was jailed on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York after he was arrested Sept. 16 on fees of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. Denied bail by two completely different judges, Combs will stay incarcerated till his trial on Could 5, 2025, and will face life in jail if convicted of the racketeering cost.

One of many first assault lawsuits in opposition to Combs’ got here from his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, on Nov. 16, 2023. She accused the rapper of bodily abuse, rape and intercourse trafficking.

The lawsuit was privately settled the subsequent day on undisclosed phrases. On Could 17, 2023, CNN launched safety footage from a Los Angeles lodge of Combs assaulting Ventura in 2016. Shortly after, Combs launched a video on Instagram apologizing and claiming he had “hit all-time low.”

Jay-Z’s response follows in full:

STATEMENT FROM SHAWN “JAY-Z” CARTER

My lawyer obtained a blackmail try, referred to as a requirement letter, from a “lawyer” named Tony Buzbee. What he had calculated was the character of those allegations and the general public scrutiny would make me need to settle.
 
No sir, it had the alternative impact! It made me need to expose you for the fraud you might be in a VERY public trend. So no, I can’t provide you with ONE RED PENNY!! 
 
These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a felony criticism, not a civil one!!  Whomever would commit such against the law in opposition to a minor needs to be locked away, would you not agree? 
 
These alleged victims would deserve actual justice if that had been the case.
 
This lawyer, who I’ve accomplished a little bit of analysis on, appears to have a sample of those sort of theatrics! 
 
I don’t know how you may have come to be such a deplorable human Mr. Buzbee, however I promise you I’ve seen your type many occasions over. I’m greater than ready to cope with your sort. You declare to be a marine?! Marines are recognized for his or her valor, you may have neither honor nor dignity. 
 
My solely heartbreak is for my household. My spouse and I should sit our youngsters down, one in all whom is on the age the place her mates will certainly see the press and ask questions in regards to the nature of those claims, and clarify the cruelty and greed of individuals. I mourn one more lack of innocence. Kids shouldn’t must endure such at their younger age. It’s unfair to must attempt to perceive inexplicable levels of malice meant to destroy households and human spirit.
 
My coronary heart and assist goes out to true victims on this planet, who’ve to observe how their life story is wearing costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in an affordable swimsuit.
 
You will have made a horrible error in judgement considering that each one “celebrities” are the identical.  I’m not out of your ethical world. I’m a younger man who made it out of the mission of Brooklyn. We don’t play most of these video games. We have now very strict codes and honor. We defend youngsters, you appear to take advantage of folks for private achieve. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, pretend physics, will imagine the idiotic claims you may have levied in opposition to me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to youngsters, could be laughable. 
 
I look ahead to exhibiting you simply how completely different I’m.