JAY-Z is preparing to fight back after a California judge tossed his defamation and extortion lawsuit against lawyer Tony Buzbee. The decision, which was taken on June 30, 2025, may have benefited Buzbee this time, though you shouldn’t count Jay-Z out quite yet.
The bombshell allegations are at the center of a drama that kicked off in 2024 when a woman named Jane Doe went public, who alleged she was raped by JAY-Z and Diddy in 2020 at the age of 13. Jay-Z’s legal team didn’t take the matter kindly, and responded with a lawsuit alleging that Buzbee had sought to extort the rapper. The plaintiff claims that Buzbee threatened to air these allegations unless Jay-Z publicly disavowed them.
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Judge Mark H. Epstein determined that Buzbee’s efforts fell short of California’s legal bar for extortion. Central to the judge’s ruling was the court’s refusal to consider sworn statements from two investigators who interviewed Jane Doe. The statements could have sounded very different.
Following the ruling, Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Jay-Z, stated that the error, the “exclusion of investigator statements,” was a “misapplication of California law,” and the investigator statements were crucial. The judge himself conceded that Spiro says the evidence would have been a game-changer for Jay-Z if it had been permitted. The court documents reportedly demonstrate not only that Jay-Z was not involved in any such attack on Doe, but also that there was never any real reason to believe he was, and Buzbee was aware of this.
The allegations in the investigators’ affidavits include some stunning ones: Doe said Jay-Z never assaulted her, Doe said Buzbee pressured her to make false allegations, and Doe said Buzbee’s firm promised her money. More surprising still, she claimed Buzbee had threatened her and attempted to coerce her into dropping the case.
Compounding the mystery of Doe’s life before and after filing suit was the fact that Doe told Buzbee that it was only after more than two weeks of phone calls that the two finally met, in New York City, face-to-face; then, at the last exchange of pleasantries at visit’s end, Doe suddenly asked whether he could consider her his girlfriend, a question she called her “last request.” Which, she said, he agreed to honor until Buzbee asked her to clarify what “girlfriend” meant to her. Adding to the oddity of this first meeting is that Doe now says she first met Buzbee weeks after Buzbee contacted Jay-Z in a demand letter, a letter Doe admitted she knew nothing about.
On the flip side, Buzbee denies any wrongdoing and calls the case “baseless.” He is also said to be preparing to request attorneys’ fees following the dismissal.
However, Jay-Z and his team, Spiro, signaled their intention to appeal within hours of the ruling. His question, “What is desire when you have all that you wanted?” raises what it even means for justice if false claims of such a serious nature can be left to stand on technicalities, and it indicates that Jay-Z is braced for a long ride through the courts.
This is more than a day in court; it’s a fight over reputation, over truth, and the legal system. The judge’s dismissal remains in effect for now, but JAY-Z’s next shot could change the narrative.
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