The woman who accused Sean Combs and Jay-Z of drugging and r*ping her when she was 13 admits there are some inconsistencies in her story.
In an interview with NBC News, “Jane Doe” admitted the details of that night are not as clear in her mind.
Doe accused Combs and Jay-Z of r*ping her at an after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
Doe claimed she spoke with musician Benji Madden at the private party in New York City. She noted he had a religious tattoo.
But Madden’s representative told NBC News that he did not attend the 2000 MTV VMAs, because he was on tour in the Midwest. However, Doe said that she still stands by her story.
The woman said she was drugged at the party, and “not all of the faces there are as clear… So I have made some mistakes. I may have made a mistake in identifying.”
“What is the clearest is what happened to me and route that I took to what happened to me,” Doe said.
Did we all watch the same thing? pic.twitter.com/RQwq9V3qdg
— Savior (@HusslinMotivate) December 14, 2024
Doe acknowledged another inconsistency in her story. She initially said her father picked her up from a gas station in NYC after the alleged r*pe occurred.
NBC News spoke with her father who said he didn’t recall driving more than five hours from his home in Rochester, NY in the middle of the night to pick up his 13-year-old daughter in NYC. He said he recalled picking her up at night, but it was locally in Rochester.
The woman’s attorney Tony Buzbee told NBC, “We agree he states he doesn’t remember. His daughter explains that he was in no state to remember during that point in time due to personal issues he was having then. We are talking about a time frame more than 20 years ago.”
The lawsuit, originally filed in October in the Southern District of New York, named Sean Combs, but not Jay-Z.
The complaint was amended on Sunday, Dec. 8, to name the Roc Nation founder as the second r*pist. The woman also said a celebrity female was in the room watching the assault take place.
Jay-Z responded in a statement after the NBC News program aired.
“Today’s investigative report proves this ‘attorney’ Buzbee filed a false complaint against me in the pursuit of money and fame,” Carter said in a statement. “This incident didn’t happen and yet he filed it in court and doubled down in the press. True Justice is coming. We fight FROM victory, not FOR victory. This was over before it began. This 1-800 lawyer doesn’t realize it yet, but, soon.”
— Roc Nation (@RocNation) December 14, 2024
In a previous statement, Jay-Z accused Houston attorney Tony Buzbee of trying to blackmail him.
“What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” said Carter. “No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud that you are in a VERY public fashion.”
Buzbee said he continues to vet the details of Doe’s case, which “was referred to our firm by another law firm, who vetted it prior to sending it to us.”
He added, “Our client remains fiercely adamant that what she has stated is true, to the best of her memory. We will continue to vet her claims and collect corroborating data to the extent it exists. Because we have interrogated her intensely, she has even agreed to submit to a polygraph. I’ve never had a client suggest that before.”
Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit against his client in light of the “glaring inconsistencies”.
“These stunning revelations make clear that the complaint filed by plaintiffs’ attorney, Anthony Buzbee, therefore had no factual basis whatsoever.” Spiro said. “Even Mr. Buzbee is walking back the complaint he put his name to — excusing these glaring inconsistencies by pointing the finger at the case being referred by another firm who allegedly vetted the story before sending to them.”
This man Buzbee needs to be in prison. Please don’t let him off the hook. This man Buzbee did this to someone else if it was true what he & his clients claimed the man should have been put in jail but no case was brought. Don’t let this slide pursue this man until he’s disbarred
— JDUB (@Jwillplaya) December 14, 2024
That’s incredible how Tony Buzbee could be that unethical
He’s using somebody that has no corroboration she didn’t report to anybody even her friends or family for 24 years
Her story is dubious about getting in a limo and going to a party and the witnesses she says she met…
— A Balu (@baluconsult) December 14, 2024
