Reports say the lawsuit named both Carter and Combs and alleges both men assaulted her at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in 2000.
In a recently refiled civil lawsuit, Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, has been accused of participating in the rape of a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000.
Initially directed at Combs in October, the lawsuit did not mention Carter but was refiled to include him, as reported by NBC and Variety.
The victim, identified only as “Jane Doe” in Variety, alleges that both Carter and Combs assaulted her at an after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?” said Carter in a statement to NBC News, who was the first to report.
Carter also told Variety his lawyer was sent “blackmail,” alleging a hope for a settlement instead of being made public.
This refiled complaint adds to a growing list of legal claims against Combs, the indicted hip-hop mogul, all of which he has denied.
The lawsuits, filed mostly by anonymous Jane Doe’s, describe alleged assaults dating to the mid-1990s, including at Combs’ celebrity-studded white parties in Long Island’s Hamptons, at a party in Brooklyn celebrating Combs’ then-collaborator Biggie Smalls, and even in the storeroom at Macy’s flagship department store in midtown Manhattan.
Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, has been in a locked up and is accused of trying to orchestrate social media campaigns aimed at tainting the jury pool, tried to publicly leak materials he thought would be helpful to his case and contacted potential witnesses through third parties.
