Jay-Z, Sean "Diddy" Combs sexual assault lawsuit dropped by accuser
A civil lawsuit accusing rap moguls Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 has been dropped by the accuser, according to documents filed in federal court in New York on Friday.
According to the filing by the plaintiff, the lawsuit was "voluntarily dismissed with prejudice." No further details were immediately known.
"Today is a victory. The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed," Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by Jay-Z, posted in a statement on its social media.
The statement was signed by Shawn Carter, Jay-Z's legal name.
"The trauma my wife, my children loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed," the statement read.
The lawsuit was filed in October 2024 and then filed again in December to add Jay-Z's name. It alleges the teen girl went to the Video Music Awards in New York City to score a ticket but instead was invited to an afterparty.
After accepting a drink, she began to feel lightheaded, the lawsuit alleges, and went into a room with a bed to lie down. Carter, Combs and another woman entered the room and the rappers proceeded to rape her the lawsuit alleged.
The woman, who court documents said now lives in Alabama, was seeking unspecified damages. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said in December that the woman can proceed anonymously at this early stage of the litigation.
Carter said after the lawsuit was filed it was a "blackmail attempt." He and his attorneys said it was a "shakedown" attempt by the lawyer who filed the suit, Tony Buzbee. In response, Buzbee wrote on Instagram there was a "coordinated and aggressive effort" to discredit him and his clients but the "truth will be revealed."
After Friday's court filing, Carter said on social media that when a lawyer gets to file a suit "hiding behind Jane Doe and when they quickly realize that the money grab is going to fail, they get to walk away with no repercussions. The system has failed."
He said the courts must protect victims but they must also protect the innocent from being accused without a shred of evidence.
"May the truth prevail for all victims and those falsely accused equally," Carter said.
CBS News has reached out to the Buzbee Law Firm for further details.
Combs faces a battery of sexual assault lawsuits, many of which were filed by Buzbee, with victims allegeing they were abused at parties in New York, California and Florida.
Combs' lawyers have dismissed Buzbee's lawsuits as "shameless publicity stunts, designed to extract payments from celebrities who fear having lies spread about them."
Combs has remained jailed since September in New York City awaiting a criminal trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
