Jay-Z can file for dismissal of rape lawsuit against him, Diddy, report says

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on Jan 3, 2025

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NEW YORK — A New York City judge on Thursday granted Jay-Z’s request to file a motion for dismissal of a lawsuit that accuses the rap titan of raping a 13-year-old with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000.

Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York said Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, can file the motion by Feb. 6, according to court documents shared on X by legal affairs journalist Meghann Cuniff.

Lawyers for the anonymous accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, would have until the end of February to file opposition papers and Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, would then have until mid-March to reply.

Doe alleged in a lawsuit filed in October —which was refiled last month to name the Brooklyn-born star — that she was raped by Jay-Z and Combs, both 55, at an after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2000.

The alleged assault took place before New York’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act came into effect in December of 2000. As a result, Spiro argued in a Dec. 30 letter that Doe’s claims could not be made under that law as it doesn’t apply retroactively, according to documents obtained by TMZ earlier this week.

Both Carter and Harlem-born Combs deny the allegations against them.

The lawsuit is one of many similar sexual assault allegations against the Bad Boy Records founder, who has been in lockup at MDC in Brooklyn since his mid-September arrest for federal sex trafficking and racketeering. He’s been denied bail three times while he awaits trial, currently scheduled to start in May.

Spiro requested in mid-December that Carter be dismissed from the suit after Doe herself acknowledged “some mistakes” and inconsistencies in her recollections of the alleged assault.

Doe is represented by Tony Buzbee, who also represents more than 100 additional Diddy accusers.

Last month, Buzbee sued the mogul’s Roc Nation, which he says tried to get his firm’s clients to sue the firm. Buzbee also accused the company of impersonating state officials. Jay-Z subsequently added defamation to his extortion lawsuit against Buzbee.