A woman who alleged that she was sexually assaulted as a 13-year-old by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs during a VMAs afterparty in 2000, has voluntarily withdrawn her lawsuit, according to court records obtained by Rolling Stone.
The Jane Doe accuser filed papers on Friday evening, informing the court that she was withdrawing her complaint with prejudice — meaning that she can’t file it again. It is not clear if the parties reached a settlement. Buzbee declined to comment when approached by Rolling Stone.
The Roc Nation founder, born Shawn Carter, has adamantly denied the “heinous” accusation after Doe named him in an amended complaint in December. In a statement provided to Rolling Stone, Carter celebrated the news as a “victory.”
“The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed,” Carter said. “This civil suit was without merit and never going anywhere. The fictional tale they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims. I would not wish this experience on anyone.”
“The trauma that my wife, my children, my loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed,” the statement continued. “This 1-800 lawyer gets to file a suit hiding behind Jane Doe, and when they quickly realize that the money grab is going to fail, they get to walk away with no repercussions. The system has failed. The court must protect victims, OF COURSE, while with the same ethical responsibility, the courts must protect the innocent from being accused without a shred of evidence. May the truth prevail for all victims and those falsely accused equally.”
Rolling Stone has reached out to representatives for Combs for comment.
The Jane Doe accuser first filed her lawsuit against Combs in October, later adding Carter as a defendant. In her complaint, Doe claimed she had traveled to New York City in the hopes of attending the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000. Instead, she claimed to have met a driver for Combs, who allegedly took her to the Bad Boy Entertainment founder’s afterparty a few hours later.
At the party, the woman claimed she began mingling with other guests, including musician Benji Madden, before she began feeling lightheaded from her drink and snuck into a bedroom to rest. Combs, Carter and an unnamed female celebrity entered the room soon after, according to the woman’s complaint. Doe claimed the men took turns assaulting her while the female celebrity watched.
The alleged encounter ended when the woman claimed to have punched Combs in the neck and escaped the home. The woman claimed that she ran to a nearby gas station and called her father to come pick her up.
But the woman’s story began to be questioned when her father told NBC he did not recall ever picking her up, saying he would remember making a 10-hour round trip to retrieve his teenage daughter. A representative for Madden also said he was on tour with his band Good Charlotte in Chicago at the time. “I have made some mistakes,” the woman told NBC in a follow-up interview. “I may have made a mistake in identifying.”
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