Jay-Z, the award-winning rapper and billionaire business mogul, has reportedly been named alongside fellow hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in a sexual assault lawsuit.
NBC News first reported they’d obtained the lawsuit, which was just refiled to include Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. FOX News Digital also obtained the documents, which were refiled Sunday in New York by the anonymous accuser.
The civil lawsuit was originally filed in October, NBC News reported, alleging Combs raped a 13-year-old girl in 2000 after she was driven to an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty.
Combs has been at the center of several lawsuits involving sexual assaults in recent months, and this is the first to include another high-profile defendant.
Representatives for Jay-Z did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Later on Sunday, a statement posted on X by Roc Nation, which is Jay-Z’s entertainment company, called the ordeal a blackmail attempt and took issue with attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents dozens of alleged Diddy victims.
Jay-Z called Buzbee a fraud in the statement, accused him of having “a pattern of these type of theatrics” and dared him to file a criminal complaint instead.
“My only heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people.
I mourn yet another loss of innocence,” the statement continued, referencing his wife, Beyoncé, and three children, Blue Ivy, 12, and 7-year-old twins Rumi and Sir.
“My heart and support goes out to true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit,” the statement continued.
