The girl accusing Jay-Z of rape has come forward to deal with the inconsistencies in her allegations.
“It’s best to at all times fight for what happened to you,” the unidentified woman, who has passed by Jane Doe in legal documents, said in an interview with NBC News published on Friday, December 13. “It’s best to at all times advocate for yourself and be a voice for yourself. It’s best to never let what any individual else did smash or run your life. I just hope I can provide others the strength to come back forward like I got here forward.”
In a civil lawsuit filed against Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) and Sean “Diddy” Combs on December 8, Doe claimed that she was invited to an MTV Music Video Awards afterparty in 2000 by a driver who claimed he worked for Diddy. The girl, who was 13 on the time of the alleged incident, claimed she was given a drink that she believed was drugged. (The lawsuit was initially filed on November 18 listing just Diddy and was refiled the next month by attorney Tony Buzbee to incorporate Jay-Z.)
Doe claimed that she went to seek out an empty room to rest in when Diddy, Jay-Z and an unnamed female celebrity got here in. Doe alleged that Diddy “threw her on the bed” and Jay-Z removed her clothes and held her down as he raped her, while each Diddy and the feminine star watched.
“Jay-Z comes over, holds me down. I start attempting to push away,” she claimed to NBC News on Friday. “He puts his hand over my mouth, tells me to stop it, to chop the shit and after which he rapes me like he had me overpowered.”
Jay-Z and Diddy, each 55, have vehemently denied the allegations.
“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal grievance, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such against the law against a minor ought to be locked away, would you not agree?” Jay-Z said in an announcement to Us Weekly after news broke of the lawsuit. “These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.” (Jay-Z’s statement was also shared via Roc Nation’s official Instagram account.)
After the alleged incident, Doe fled the house and went to a close-by gas station to call her father to select her up.
“I used to be upset, and the person on the gas station could tell that I used to be obviously upset, and she or he let me use the phone. I called my dad because he was the one person I [trusted] at the moment. I told him I tousled and I needed a ride home,” she recalled to the outlet. “We rode home in silence. He didn’t ask me what happened. He didn’t ask me what I did or where I used to be.”
Along with Jay-Z and Diddy claiming the incident never happened, Doe’s father got here forward to NBC News on Thursday, December 12, saying he didn’t recall picking up his daughter that evening on the gas station, which was about five hours away from their home. Doe, for her part, is standing by her claims.
“There are a whole lot of things, and that is stuff that we argue about always, something he said or did back in Recent York around that point period he just doesn’t remember,” she said on Friday. “It actually causes a whole lot of fights sometimes within the household.”
Doe also claimed that she spoke with Joel and Benji Madden through the afterparty, however the Good Charlotte band members stated that they didn’t attend since they were on tour at the moment. Doe explained that the opposite faces on the event weren’t as clear.
“Truthfully, what’s the clearest is what happened to me and [the] route that I took to what happened to me. Not all the faces there are as clear,” she said. “So I even have made some mistakes. I can have made a mistake in identifying.”
There have also been discrepancies in Doe’s description of the home where the incident allegedly took place. Doe’s attorney and his team have been attempting to verify the placement.
Doe shared that before the lawsuit, she never told anyone concerning the alleged assault.
“Even when any individual came upon, who was gonna consider me?” she told NBC News. “I mean, it was the word of two celebrities against mine.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Jay-Z for comment.
In the event you or someone you recognize has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
