JAY-Z of r@pe accuser admits allegation was false and she's never met or spoken to the rapper

Friday, September 25, 2026 - The Jane Doe who accused Jay-Z of r@pe in a lawsuit two years ago has now said that her claims were false, that she never met the Roc Nation mogul. 

“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,” the woman wrote in a new 12-page declaration filed in Manhattan federal court. 

“There is no truth to any of my claims against Mr. Carter,” she continued under penalty of perjury. “I understand my false accusations have caused Mr. Carter immense pain, suffering, and damage that can never be fully undone.” 

The lengthy declaration was filed Thursday, September 24, along with a notice that Carter was voluntarily dismissing the woman as a defendant in his ongoing malicious-prosecution lawsuit against prominent lawyer Tony Buzbee and his Texas-based law firm. 

The Jane Doe said she was not promised and did not receive any compensation for the declaration. 

“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,” Jane Doe’s new lawyer in the malicious prosecution case, James Blair Newman, Jr., said in a statement. “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.” 

The new declaration and dismissal filings came more than a year after Carter first sued the woman and her lawyers in federal court. He accused them of conspiring to pressure him into a secret financial settlement “under the threat of devastating harm to his reputation.” 

Carter’s federal court lawsuit was a response to a different lawsuit first filed by the woman in October 2024 that accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of r@ping her when she was 13 and alleged that an unidentified “male celebrity” also s£xually assaulted her. 

In his filings, Carter has claimed Buzbee sent him an “extortionate demand letter” in November 2024, and, after he refused to pay, amended the lawsuit in December 2024 to identify Carter as the previously unnamed celebrity defendant. 

Carter, who has three children with singer Beyonce, vehemently denied the r@pe allegation when it became public and revealed he already had sued Buzbee for extortion in California state court in November 2024 using a John Doe pseudonym. In a sworn declaration, he said the demand letter felt like 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 went on to voluntarily dismiss her entire complaint against Carter and Combs in early 2025, admitting there were inconsistencies in her story. 

A judge later dismissed Carter’s Caliifornia-based extortion lawsuit. An appeals court recently upheld that dismissal, finding that Buzbee’s demand letter was protected because it was sent in anticipation of filing a lawsuit. 

“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,” Associate Justice Anne Richardson wrote in the unanimous ruling from California’s Second Appellate District earlier this month. 

The California ruling leaves Carter’s malicious-prosecution lawsuit in New York as his remaining case against Buzbee and his firm. Carter alleges they should have known before 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 told Rolling Stone on Thursday, September 24, that he had not seen Jane Doe’s new declaration. 

“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,” he wrote. 

In her new declaration, the Jane Doe said her legal claim started when she responded to a Facebook ad in late September or early October 2024 looking for people with s£xual assault claims against Sean Combs. 

“The ad triggered memories of being r@ped when I was 13 years old,” she claimed in the new filing. 

She said she clicked on the ad, filled out a form, and received a call asking for more information. She recalled stating during the call that she was a model who attended an afterparty following the Teen Choice Awards in 2000 in New York City. Her lawsuit later claimed the show was the MTV Video Music Awards. 

The woman said that her initial October 2024 lawsuit against Combs was filed without her knowledge and without her lawyers “conducting any independent investigation, background inquiry, or due diligence.” 

She further alleged she was given $1,200 in cash by her lawyers when she traveled to Houston in December 2024 for an interview with NBC News. She said her lawyers asked her to take a polygraph test after the news interview due to discrepancies in her story. She never received the results of the test, she claimed 

“In January 2025, I began to doubt my claims against Mr. Carter. I also began doubting that I ever went to a party with celebrities,” she wrote. 

After she expressed the doubts to her lawyers, they let her know they were dismissing her lawsuit, she claimed