Report: Jay-Z accuser recorded saying lawyer “pushed” her to sue

The anonymous woman was interviewed by private investigators hired by Jay-Z after withdrawing her lawsuit claiming she was sexually assaulted by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000.

The woman who accused Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault when she was 13 was recorded agreeing that Jay-Z did not attack her, and that she was pushed to make the allegation by her attorney. The recording of the unidentified woman, known as Jane Doe, was made by two private investigators employed by Jay-Z and obtained by ABC News.

In the recording, one of the reporters can be heard bringing up the party and Jane Doe’s allegations of the incident, which she claimed took place at an afterparty for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. “He was there, but he didn’t have anything to do with any sexual acts towards you?” “Yeah,” Jane Doe responds.

Doe also claims that her attorney, Tony Buzbee, convinced her to implicate Jay Z in her suit. “He was the one that kind of pushed me towards going forward with him, with Jay-Z,” Doe says. “Buzbee did?” the investigator responds. “Yeah,” says Doe.

Buzbee called the coercion allegation “a blatant lie” in a statement to ABC News. He also provided a recording of himself and Doe where his client claims she “never said” that Jay-Z did not assault her, and that Buzbee did not ask her to lie about Jay-Z.

“As far as the suggestion that I pushed Jane Doe to bring a case against Jay-Z,” Buzbee said in a separate statement, “that is a blatant lie that is directly contrary to all the documentary evidence.”

In February, the accuser withdrew her lawsuit with prejudice, preventing it from being refiled in the future. In her declaration, she said she felt “intimidated and terrified” by the private investigators who made the recording.

Alex Spiro, attorney for Jay-Z, denied that the investigators were sent to intimidate the accuser. “She voluntarily met, spoke to them and she told them her truth, which was under no circumstances did Mr. Carter do this.”

Jay-Z has since launched two defamation suits against his accuser and her attorneys Buzbee and David Fortney. In his first suit, launched against Buzbee in Los Angeles, he claims that his company Roc Nation has lost $20 million in value since the allegations became public. His second suit was filed in federal court in Alabama and calls the accusation an “evil conspiracy” built on false allegations launched with the intention of securing a settlement.

Watch ABC News’s full report below. The FADER has reached out to Tony Buzbee for more information.