Last month Jay-Z filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Houston attorney Tony Buzbee and his Jane Doe client. The suit came immediately after Buzbee and his client dropped the civil lawsuit against Jay-Z and Bad Boy Entertainment CEO, Sean “Diddy” Combs. In the suit they were accused of assaulting the client at an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty twenty years ago – when the accuser was a minor.
Jay-Z petitioned the court to allow Jane Doe to remain anonymous.
Legal analyst Meghann Cuniff posted documents from the case to her X (formerly Twitter) account.
“Jay-Z is asking the judge to let him sue the woman under a Jane Doe pseudonym,” Cuniff wrote. “Because he is concerned that by using Jane Doe’s real name, Doe would be subjected to (potentially harmful to her) media scrutiny.”