Jay-Z accused of raping 13-year-old girl in 2000 in updated Diddy civil complaint

MANHATTAN (CN) ­— Brooklyn hip-hop superstar Jay-Z denied accusations lodged in a civil lawsuit on Sunday that he and indicted entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs took turns raping a 13-year-old girl at an awards show afterparty in September 2000.

The anonymous accuser, identified an amended complaint as Jane Doe, said the rape happened after she was driven to a private afterparty following the MTV Video Music Awards.

“Another celebrity stood by and watched as Combs and Carter took turns assaulting the minor,” she wrote in the complaint. “Many others were present at the afterparty, but did nothing to stop the assault.”

The MTV Video Music Awards, also known as the VMAs, were held that year at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. At the time, Combs was dating singer Jennifer Lopez, then-comprising one of Hollywood’s hottest A-list couples.

The accuser says in the complaint that was initially invited to the afterparty by a limousine driver outside the venue who told her that Combs liked younger girls and said she “fit what Diddy was looking for.”

She described the afterparty as taking place at “at what she believed to be a large white residence with a gated U-shaped driveway.”

The same year of the alleged incident, Jay-Z released the song “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” featuring now-convicted R&B singer R. Kelly.

In a statement posted to social media on Sunday, Jay-Z denied the lurid accusations lodged at him in the amended complaint, which he decried as part of an attempt to extort him.

“Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable,” he wrote in a post on his Roc Nation company’s account on X, formerly Twitter.

Jay-Z has retained defense attorney Alex Spiro, who has recently handled high-profile defendants including actor Alec Baldwin and current New York City mayor Eric Adams.

The anonymous plaintiff brought her civil suit under the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act during a two-year window that suspends legal deadlines and allows sexual assault victims to sue over abuse that might otherwise be too old to pursue.

On Monday, Jay-Z, whose full name is Shawn Carter, filed a motion to not allow the plaintiff to proceed pseudonymously in the case.

“Mr. Carter vehemently denies the allegations, has no idea who plaintiff is, or who she could possibly be, and thus has had no known contact with plaintiff for the approximately twenty years since the alleged incident — which, even if it occurred, did not involve Mr. Carter — and there is no allegation of any threat to plaintiff in the complaint,” he wrote in thefiling.

Jay-Z was added to a lawsuit that was originally filed in October as one of dozens of anonymous complaints by 100 plaintiffs in civil sexual assault lawsuits against the embattled hip-hop producer once known as P. Diddy.

In his statement, Jay-Z claimed those plaintiffs’ attorney, the Houston-based Tony Buzbee, sent his lawyer a “demand letter” ahead of the filing of the amended complaint.

Combs has repeatedly denied all the accusations against him. Federal prosecutors in New York criminally charged him in September with racketeering, sex trafficking and other offenses, arresting him in a Manhattan hotel lobby six months after federal investigators searched his luxury homes in Los Angeles and Miami. He has been in federal pretrial detention since, and is currently being held without bail at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

His trial scheduled for May 5, 2025.

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