Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter has filed a defamation lawsuit against the unidentified woman who withdrew her rape lawsuit against the hip-hop mogul, alleging that the woman and her legal team made "false and malicious claims” to extort the rapper for financial gain.

Jay-Z is suing his former accuser, who he now claims has admitted that her story of being drugged and raped by him and Diddy as a 13-year-old girl at an afterparty following the 2000 MTV VMAs is false.

Jay-Z is suing a woman who in February withdrew her legal action accusing the rapper of rape. His defamation action claims she "voluntarily admitted" being pressured into making false claims in what it describes as an "evil conspiracy" to extort money and damage his reputation.

The lawsuit also names the woman’s attorneys and claims the defendants made “malevolent efforts to assassinate” Jay-Z’s character in a complaint they later withdrew.

The rap artist is suing "Jane Doe" and her lawyer, who is also representing hundreds of victims accusing Diddy of sexual misconduct.

Music mogul Jay-Z has filed a defamation lawsuit against an anonymous woman who earlier accused him of raping her when she was 13, alleging she was banking on “false and malicious claims” for financial gain.

Rapper claims woman and her lawyers knowingly proceeded with false claim that he and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her when she was 13

Jay-Z is lying and "reeks of desperation," says the lawyer representing the Jane Doe who accused the Grammy-winning rapper and the incarcerated Sean "Diddy” Combs of repeatedly raping her in 2000. In an already pugilistic case that was dismissed by the plaintiff on Valentines' Day after it was played out in court and in the