‘Bought-and-Paid-For’: Jay-Z Accuser’s Ex-Lawyers Respond to Her Recanting Allegations
Lawyers for Tony Buzbee say his former client is an "unreliable" witness and suggest the woman was paid to repudiate her allegation against the star.
Lawyers representing Jay-Z have responded to their former client's full recantation of allegations that she was raped by the rapper when she was just 13-years-old. The accuser, referred to only as Jane Doe, filed a shocking rape lawsuit against Jay-Z in December 2024, claiming the two stars drugged and assaulted the teen during an after-party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.
However, in a sworn statement filed on September 25, Doe admitted that her allegations were "false" and that she had "never met or spoken" to the rapper. Her lawyers, Tony Buzbee, claim the sudden reversal is "irrelevant and inflammatory" and that it was "bought-and-paid-for." The attorney argued that Jay-Z and his team were aware of the testimony's potential falsehood and that it was offered by an unreliable witness.
Buzbee's team has filed a response in court, requesting that the declaration be struck from the case.
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