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Jay-Z rape accuser says her allegation was false

A woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has formally said her allegation was untrue. The unnamed woman filed a lawsuit in 2024 claiming she had been drugged and raped by Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, and Sean “Diddy” Combs at a party after the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000. [...] The post Jay-Z rape accuser says her allegation was false appeared first on Kahawatungu .

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An unnamed woman accused rapper Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13, alleging she was drugged and assaulted by him and Sean "Diddy" Combs at a party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. The stars and the woman's legal team denied the claims, but she filed a lawsuit in 2024. In February 2025, she dropped the lawsuit, stating that Jay-Z never raped her and that the allegations were false.

She also said her claims caused Jay-Z immense pain and that she had not received any money or been paid to make her latest declaration. The woman, known as Jane Doe, was removed from Jay-Z's lawsuit. She claims she had no threats from Jay-Z or his associates and that her lawyers did not conduct any due diligence before filing the lawsuit, which is now being challenged by Jay-Z's ex-lawyers.

Jay-Z and Combs are both facing separate legal issues; Combs was recently convicted of prostitution-related charges and is currently serving a four-year prison sentence.

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