Overview
- The anonymous plaintiff filed an 11‑page sworn declaration saying her accusations that Jay‑Z raped her were false and that she has never met or spoken to him, a filing obtained by multiple outlets.
- The recantation, submitted in court on Thursday, Sept. 24, included an unqualified apology to Carter and a statement that she did not receive payment for the new declaration.
- Carter filed notice removing her as a defendant from his ongoing malicious‑prosecution suit, but he continues to press claims against Tony Buzbee and Buzbee’s Texas law firm in federal court in New York.
- In the declaration the woman said she told lawyers about mental‑health issues, that the case began after she answered a Facebook ad, and that lawyers paid cash for NBC interview travel and arranged a polygraph whose results she never received; Buzbee disputes her account and says multiple lawyers and an investigator vetted her story.
- Legal experts say the recantation clears Carter of the alleged conduct but does not decide the separate lawsuits over lawyers’ pre‑suit conduct, which raise questions about intake, corroboration and potential malpractice or malicious‑prosecution liability and are likely to shape further litigation and appeals.