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Jay-Z’s legal team has released the smoking gun that they believe proves their client’s innocence once and for all in the now-dismissed rape lawsuit against him.
The lawyers released audio, obtained by ABC News and “Good Morning America” Wednesday, of Jane Doe admitting to two private investigators that Jay-Z did not rape her. She also claimed in the tape that attorney Tony Buzbee “pushed” her to lie about those allegations.
“But Jay-Z was — you’re saying he was definitely there? But he had no part in it?” a male private investigator could be heard asking the unidentified woman in the clip.
She then responds, “He was there.”
Jay-Z’s legal team released audio of Jane Doe. AFP via Getty Images In the audio, Doe denies to two investigators that Jay-Z raped her. AFP via Getty ImagesA female private investigator follows up to further clarify, “He was just there but he didn’t have anything to do with any sexual acts towards you,” to which Doe answers back, “Yeah.”
The ex-accuser then allegedly says in a separate part of the conversation that her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, “was the one that kind of pushed me towards going forward with him, with Jay-Z.”
The male investigator asks, “Do you know why?” to which Doe responds, “No.”
Doe also claimed to investigators that her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, “pushed” her to lie about Jay-Z. Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesEXCLUSIVE: "This person cannot be allowed to sort of hide from the reality that this was a false accusation."
Even after the sexual assault lawsuit against Jay-Z was dismissed, his attorney speaks to @aaronkatersky about why the rapper is suing his former accuser for defamation. pic.twitter.com/TdJZDZe4PZ
Buzbee tells Page Six in response to the audio, :I spoke to Jane Doe immediately after being contacted by ABC. Her position is very clear and has never changed. The tape is a fabrication.”
“The investigators tormented and harassed and tricked that poor woman and took what she said out of context and secretly recorded her,” the Texas-based lawyer adds.
“She stands by her claim that jay z was there at the party and that he assaulted her. She has never wavered on that point, not once.”
Buzbee tells Page Six he spoke to Doe and she claims she did not retract her claims. Jay Janner / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images “The investigators tormented and harassed and tricked that poor woman,” Buzbee adds. Getty ImagesABC obtained a recording of Buzbee’s call with his client and Doe could be heard flat-out denying that she ever told investigators Jay-Z did not rape her or that she blamed Buzbee for the alleged lies, seemingly contradicting what was said in the investigators’ tape.
Page Six has reached out to Jay-Z’s reps for comment on Buzbee’s statement but did not immediately hear back.
The hip-hop star’s attorney Alex Spiro told ABC, however, in response, “The tape speaks for itself.”
“She says, in no uncertain terms, Mr. Carter did not do this,” the prominent lawyer, who represents other high-profile clients such as Elon Musk and Mayor Eric Adams, added in the televised interview.
Jay-Z’s lawyer told ABC News, “The tape speaks for itself.” Matthew McDermott Jay-Z is suing Doe and Buzbee for defamation. Getty Images for NARAS“It is effectively a lie, and the only reason Mr. Carter is even involved in this is because she was pushed to involve him, pushed to include him by a lawyer.”
Spiro, 42, further insisted that the private investigators “did not coerce her, promise or threaten her in any way shape or form,” adding, “She voluntarily met and spoke to them and she told them her truth.”
He concluded that Jay-Z “doesn’t know Jane Doe,” “never met” her and “there’s no truth to any of this.”
