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Jay-Z Loses Extortion Suit Against Tony Buzbee

A California appeals court has decided that Jay-Z cannot sue a personal injury attorney for extortion or defamation.

The musician's attempt to sue came after a lawsuit accused him of raping a 13-year-old girl.

In 2024, Tony Buzbee claimed that Jay-Z, whose legal name is Shawn Carter, had raped a child alongside Sean 'Diddy' Combs decades earlier. The case was dropped just months later.

Jay-Z denied the allegations and pushed back, saying the lawyer had made up the claims to extort him.

In a new ruling, California's Second Appellate District has stated that the rap icon cannot sue Buzbee for extortion or defamation over the accusations, even though they were quickly dismissed.

"The record contains no evidence Buzbee accused Carter of raping Jane Doe while knowing those statements to be false or with reckless disregard as to whether they were true," the appeals court wrote in a decision obtained by Billboard.

"To the contrary, Buzbee submitted declarations showing his firm's investigations led him to subjectively believe in the truth of the accusations."

In a statement to Billboard on Thursday, Buzbee said, "I said when the case was filed it was total bulls**t. The trial court dumped it and the appellate court affirmed. I'm now entitled to my fees and costs and I intend to get every red penny that I spent dealing with it."

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