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Shawn ‘Jay-Z‘ Carter has filed a defamation lawsuit against the anonymous woman who accused him of raping her when she was 13. In the suit filed on March 3rd, Carter alleges that Jane Doe and her lawyers, Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, took part in an “evil conspiracy” to extort him with their “completely fabricated” and “wildly horrific” claim.

In December, Carter was accused of sexually assaulting the woman alongside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000. She alleged that Carter then removed her clothes, held her down and raped her while Combs and an unnamed female celebrity watched. She says Combs also raped her, as Carter and the woman observed.

Jane Doe publicly admitted to inconsistencies in her story, and the suit was later voluntarily dismissed by her attorneys, stating she “hereby gives notice that the above-captioned action is voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice.”

The new lawsuit claims she admitted to Carter’s representatives that she concocted her claim and felt pressured by her legal team to repeat it during her NBC News interview.

“Doe has now voluntarily admitted directly to representatives of Mr. Carter that the story brought before the world in court and on global television was just that: a false, malicious story,” Carter’s new lawsuit reads.

“She has admitted that Mr. Carter did not assault her; and that indeed it was Buzbee himself – whom she met for the first time at a coffee shop in Houston on the day of her maliciously false NBC News interview – who pushed her to go forward with the false narrative of the assault by Mr. Carter in order to leverage a maximum payday.”

In a statement to Rolling Stone, Buzbee said, “This new case which alleges the same thing as another one he pieces together and filed in Los Angeles also has no legal merit. Shawn Carter’s investigators have repeatedly harassed, threatened and harangued this poor woman for weeks trying to intimidate her and make her recant her story. She won’t. Instead she has stated repeatedly she stands by her claims.”

He continued, “These same group of investigators have been caught on tape offering to pay people to sue me and my firm. This is just another attempt to intimidate and bully this poor woman that we will deal with in due course. We won’t be bullied or intimidated by frivolous cases.”

Carter is also suing Buzbee for defamation, which is set to proceed to a trial. Judge Mark H. Epstein said Carter’s claim that the attorney acted recklessly and with malice had enough merit to move forward.