According to reports, the woman who accused Jay-Z of assaulting her when she was 13 was caught on tape allegedly admitting the attack never happened and claiming her lawyer pushed her to file the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, which also implicated Diddy, was quietly withdrawn last month. In a recording obtained by ABC News, the woman, identified as Jane Doe, told private investigators that Jay-Z “didn’t have anything to do” with the alleged incident.
She also claimed her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, pressured her into filing the suit. Jay-Z had strongly denied the allegations since the lawsuit was filed in December.
A recording obtained by ABC News has since emerged that captures the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, telling two of Jay-Z’s private investigators that the alleged attack didn’t occur.
In a statement shared with the news outlet, Buzbee slammed Jane Doe’s claims that he put her up to suing Jay-Z, calling it a “blatant lie.”
“As far as the suggestion that I pushed Jane Doe to bring a case against Jay Z – That is a blatant lie that is directly contrary to all the documentary evidence,” Buzbee said.
The situation looks sketchy as Buzbee also handed his recording to the news outlet, where he confronted Jane Doe with these claims. In it, she replies that she never actually took back her accusations against Jay-Z.
According to TMZ, he slammed the audio recording, saying that Jane Doe was “tricked” and “harassed” by the private investigators.
“The tape is a fraud,” he said. “They tormented and harassed and tricked that poor woman and took what she said out of context and secretly recorded her. She stands by her claim that Jay-Z assaulted her. She has never wavered on that point once.”
Reports that private investigators started digging into the case surfaced after it was withdrawn in February.
One of the said investigators, Charlotte Henderson, filed an affidavit last week stating she met with Jane Doe on February 21, 2025, in the accuser’s Alabama home.
