Lady who accused Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of rape drops case | Jay-Z

An nameless girl who accused Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her in 2000 when she was 13 dismissed her civil lawsuit on Friday in opposition to the hip-hop moguls.

A submitting in federal court docket in Manhattan stated the plaintiff, known as Jane Doe, voluntarily dismissed the case with prejudice, which means she can’t deliver it once more.

Tony Buzbee, a lawyer for the girl, declined to remark.

Combs is in a Brooklyn jail awaiting a scheduled 5 Could prison trial on racketeering and sex-trafficking fees.

He nonetheless faces dozens of different civil lawsuits by men and women, together with many represented by Buzbee’s agency, who’ve accused him of sexual assault and different misconduct.

Combs has pleaded not responsible within the prison case, and maintained his innocence in the entire circumstances.

The Doe lawsuit was the one one to call Carter as a defendant, and he had vociferously denied the girl’s claims.

“At this time is a victory,” Carter stated in an announcement posted on-line by his leisure firm Roc Nation. “The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil swimsuit was with out advantage and by no means going wherever.”

Carter stated the case additionally had brought about trauma for his spouse, Beyoncé, and their youngsters.

In a joint assertion, Combs’s attorneys maintained that their consumer had by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody.

“We’ll proceed to battle these baseless claims and maintain these accountable,” the attorneys stated. “That is simply the primary of many that won’t maintain up in a court docket of regulation.”

Doe had accused Carter and Combs of raping her at an afterparty following the 2000 MTV Video Music awards.

She stated the alleged incident brought about melancholy that led to post-traumatic stress dysfunction and her being “largely withdrawn from society”.