(CNN) — A Jane Doe who alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z sexually assaulted her 25 years in the past has withdrawn her lawsuit in opposition to them.
In a discover of voluntary dismissal filed Friday, attorneys for the girl dropped the lawsuit with prejudice, stopping it from being re-filed sooner or later.
“Counsel of Plaintiff have mentioned this matter with counsel for every Defendant, who acknowledge and consent to this submission,” acknowledged the court docket submitting, signed by Doe’s attorneys.
A lawyer for Jay-Z, whose authorized identify is Shawn Carter, hailed the event.
“The false case in opposition to Jay-Z, that by no means ought to have been introduced, has been dismissed with prejudice,” Carter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, stated in an announcement. “By standing up within the face of heinous and false allegations, Jay has completed what few can – he pushed again, he by no means settled, he by no means paid 1 purple penny, he triumphed and cleared his identify.”
Doe’s lawsuit was initially filed in opposition to Combs in October 2024 wherein she alleged she was drugged and raped by him, together with one other superstar, at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000, when she was 13 years outdated. In an amended grievance, filed in December 2024, Carter was added as a defendant and accused of rape.
Carter vigorously denied the allegations, calling them “so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a felony grievance, not a civil one.”
Carter’s attorneys had made quite a few efforts to get the case thrown out, previous to Doe dropping her lawsuit.
In December, a decide denied Carter’s request to dismiss the case and granted Doe the flexibility to proceed anonymously, after Carter’s workforce had requested the decide to have her reveal her identification. On the time, the decide penned a scathing resolution, condemning Carter’s lawyer’s “relentless submitting of combative motions” in his efforts to dismiss the case as “inappropriate.”
In January, Carter’s attorneys sought once more to dismiss the lawsuit and requested the decide to subject sanctions in opposition to the lawyer who filed the case after a number of inconsistencies in Doe’s allegations have been revealed.
Doe acknowledged inconsistencies in her recollection of the occasions in an interview with NBC however stood by her allegation that she was raped. Her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, informed CNN on the time, “Our shopper stays fiercely adamant that what she has acknowledged is true, to one of the best of her reminiscence.”
Combs’ attorneys informed CNN that the dismissal of Doe’s case is “one other affirmation that these lawsuits are constructed on falsehoods, not details” and denounced “case after case filed by people hiding behind anonymity.”
Combs, who faces greater than 40 sexual assault lawsuits, was indicted in September on prices of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible.
On Friday, Combs’ lawyer informed CNN he has “by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody—man or lady, grownup or minor.”
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