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Jay-Z’s battle with Jane Doe lawyer Tony Buzbee heats up as Buzbee files to dismiss the rapper’s lawsuit against him — and makes fresh allegations, too.
Tony Buzbee, who represents over a hundred alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs victims, has filed a motion to dismiss Jay-Z’s defamation lawsuit against him. Among those Buzbee represents is a Jane Doe who accused Diddy and Jay-Z of raping her when she was a minor in 2000.
Jay-Z has staunchly denied those allegations, which culminated in the Jane Doe dropping her case against him. But Buzbee claims he had an agreement with Jay-Z, stating, “The relentless pressure that [Jay-Z] and his associates placed upon Doe became too much for her. On February 4, 2025, an agreement to resolve the litigation was reached between [the two parties], through their attorneys, which included the voluntary dismissal of the [Southern District of New York] action.”
Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Jay-Z, calls Buzbee’s claims “a total lie.” He added that Buzbee “brought a false case, lost badly, and was forced to dismiss quickly. End of story.”
Now, an attorney for Buzbee, Marc E. Kasowitz, has released a statement that calls Spiro’s statement a “total fabrication.” “There was an exchange of emails between me and Spiro, which set forth the agreement very quickly.” He added, “As part of that agreement, Spiro agreed to withdraw the […] motions for sanctions that he had brought against Mr. Buzbee’s law firm.”
Further, Kasowitz said Buzbee’s legal team “agreed to withdraw the lawsuit that Jane Doe had brought for rape against Jay-Z and [Combs] even though Jane Doe continued to maintain that the allegations in that lawsuit were true, and Jay-Z and Spiro agreed not to send any more people to harass and intimidate Jane Doe and her family.”
“One week later,” he added, “Jay-Z and his lawyer breached that agreement flagrantly by sending supposed investigators to harass and intimidate Jane Doe and her family.”
Spiro confirmed in court documents that Kasowitz did, in fact, contact him regarding dismissing the Jane Doe lawsuit against Jay-Z. He asserted that he told Kasowitz that his client “would never settle the lawsuit or pay any money to resolve it, given it was a heinous false accusation.”
He acknowledged that Kasowitz asked them to stop investigating Buzbee’s law firm, but denied there was any “explicit agreement” in place to drop the Jane Doe suit, calling that claim untrue.
Jane Doe, meanwhile, has claimed that a supposed audio recording of her recanting her allegations was manipulated by private investigators. “I never stated […] that [Jay-Z] did not assault me.” She also said investigators came to her Alabama home without warning and “twisted her words” during an impromptu interview.
Buzbee also denounced the recording as doctored. “The tape is a fraud,” he told TMZ. “They tormented and harassed and tricked that poor woman and took what she said out of context and secretly recorded her.” He added, “She stands by her claim that Jay-Z assaulted her. She has never wavered on that point once.”
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