In a newly unveiled recording, Jay-Z’s rape accuser may be heard saying the rapper by no means sexually assaulted her.
An excerpt of the recording, obtained and first reported on by ABC Information, is a dialog between the lady, recognized as Jane Doe, and two non-public investigators of Jay’s, whose actual identify is Shawn Carter. Within the recording, one of many investigators may be heard asking Doe, “He was simply there, however he did not have something to do with any sexual acts in direction of you?”
“Yeah,” she responded.
She additionally stated that her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, inspired her to sue Carter, in accordance with ABC Information.
“He was the one which type of pushed me in direction of going ahead with him, with Jay-Z,” Doe reportedly stated within the recording.
“Buzbee did?” the investigators requested, with the lady replying, “Yeah.”
In a now-dismissed lawsuit, Doe stated that Jay and Diddy raped her when she was 13 years previous after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. This recording clearly contradicts that. But it surely’s not the top of this story.
In a separate report from Rolling Stone, which independently obtained the recording, the outlet stated that Buzbee despatched his personal recording of a dialog between himself and Doe. In it, she denied that she advised the non-public investigators that Carter didn’t assault her, in addition to denied telling them that Buzbee pushed her to sue.
Buzbee additionally despatched a press release to Rolling Stone concerning the recording between the investigators and Doe, saying, “Her place may be very clear and has by no means modified. The tape is a pieced-together fabrication. The investigators tormented and harassed and tricked that poor girl and took what she stated out of context and secretly recorded her. She stands by her declare that Jay-Z was there on the occasion and that [he] assaulted her. She has by no means wavered on that time, not as soon as.”
The outlet additionally reported {that a} separate investigator related to Carter stated in court docket filings that Doe has “a legally-documented historical past of psychological well being points.”
Moreover, the outlet famous each a household court docket case the place a health care provider testified in a 2015 deposition about Doe sharing that she had a historical past of auditory hallucinations, in addition to a separate movement filed by the lady in February final yr, the place she and a unique lawyer from Buzbee requested a choose to switch her to psychological well being court docket for a pending matter.
Rolling Stone requested Buzbee about Doe’s psychological well being standing, to which he advised the outlet in an e-mail, “I’m not her psychologist. I feel it’s inappropriate to assault her on alleged previous psychological well being points in mild of her assertions. That’s the last word in low.”
The lawsuit towards Carter and Diddy, actual identify Sean Combs, was voluntarily dismissed final month. The swimsuit was dismissed with prejudice, which means that it’s dismissed completely.
The lawsuit was first filed in October final yr; Carter’s identify was added to it in December. Doe claimed that Carter and Combs had raped her at an MTV Video Music Awards occasion in September of 2000 when she was a youngster.
Earlier this month, Carter filed a defamation lawsuit towards Doe and Buzbee associated to the dismissed swimsuit.
