The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 was caught on an audio recording apparently admitting that the decades-old attack never happened — and that her lawyer pushed her to slap him with a lawsuit.
The woman’s suit, originally filed in Manhattan federal court, was quietly withdrawn by her attorney last month after she alleged the hip-hop legend assaulted her with Sean “Diddy” Combs at a New York VMAs afterparty in 2000.
A recording obtained by ABC News has since emerged that captures the woman, only identified as Jane Doe, telling two of Jay-Z’s private investigators that the alleged attack didn’t occur.
“He was just there, but he didn’t have anything to do with any sexual acts towards you?” the private investigator can be heard asking in the clip.
“Yeah,” the woman responded.
Elsewhere in the recording, Jane Doe claimed her lawyer — Tony Buzbee — allegedly pressured her to file the suit against the hip-hop mogul.
“He was the one that kind of pushed me towards going forward with him, with Jay-Z,” the woman said in the recording.
“Buzbee did?” one of the investigators asked, before she replied: “Yeah.”
Buzbee, who is repping scores of Diddy accusers, filed a “voluntary notice of dismissal” to end the woman’s suit on Feb. 14.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled.
At the time, Jay-Z’s attorney, Alex Spiro, ripped the litigation, saying it “never should have been brought.”
“By standing up in the face of heinous and false allegations, Jay has done what few can – he pushed back, he never settled, he never paid 1 red penny, he triumphed and cleared his name,” Spiro said.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
