Jay-Z Accuser Says Rapper Didn’t Assault Her In Audio Recording

In a newly unveiled recording, Jay-Z’s rape accuser can be heard saying the rapper never sexually assaulted her.

An excerpt of the recording, obtained and first reported on by ABC News, is a conversation between the woman, identified as Jane Doe, and two private investigators of Jay’s, whose real name is Shawn Carter. In the recording, one of the investigators can be heard asking Doe, “He was just there, but he didn't have anything to do with any sexual acts towards you?”

“Yeah,” she responded.

She also said that her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, encouraged her to sue Carter, according to ABC News.

“He was the one that kind of pushed me towards going forward with him, with Jay-Z,” Doe reportedly said in the recording.

“Buzbee did?” the investigators asked, with the woman replying, “Yeah.”

In a now-dismissed lawsuit, Doe said that Jay and Diddy raped her when she was 13 years old after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. This recording obviously contradicts that. But it’s not the end of this story.

In a separate report from Rolling Stone, which independently obtained the recording, the outlet said that Buzbee sent his own recording of a conversation between himself and Doe. In it, she denied that she told the private investigators that Carter did not assault her, as well as denied telling them that Buzbee pushed her to sue.

Buzbee also sent a statement to Rolling Stone about the recording between the investigators and Doe, saying, “Her position is very clear and has never changed. The tape is a pieced-together fabrication. The investigators tormented and harassed and tricked that poor woman and took what she said out of context and secretly recorded her. She stands by her claim that Jay-Z was there at the party and that [he] assaulted her. She has never wavered on that point, not once.”

The outlet also reported that a separate investigator associated with Carter said in court filings that Doe has “a legally-documented history of mental health issues.”

Additionally, the outlet noted both a family court case where a doctor testified in a 2015 deposition about Doe sharing that she had a history of auditory hallucinations, as well as a separate motion filed by the woman in February last year, where she and a different lawyer from Buzbee asked a judge to transfer her to mental health court for a pending matter.

Rolling Stone asked Buzbee about Doe’s mental health status, to which he told the outlet in an email, “I’m not her psychologist. I think it’s inappropriate to attack her on alleged past mental health issues in light of her assertions. That’s the ultimate in low.”

The lawsuit against Carter and Diddy, real name Sean Combs, was voluntarily dismissed last month. The suit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning that it’s dismissed permanently.

The lawsuit was first filed in October last year; Carter’s name was added to it in December. Doe claimed that Carter and Combs had raped her at an MTV Video Music Awards party in September of 2000 when she was a teenager.

Earlier this month, Carter filed a defamation lawsuit against Doe and Buzbee related to the dismissed suit.