Warning: This article contains discussion of rape which some readers may find distressing.

All allegations made against Jay-Z by a woman who claimed she was raped by the rapper when she was just 13 years old have been dropped.

Plaintiff Jane Doe alleged that the 24-time Grammy-winner carried out the heinous act on her at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards back in 2000, and claimed Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, also drugged and raped her.

However, since filing the lawsuit in October, initially just against Combs before adding Jay-Z’s name in December, she gave an interview that raised some questions over her credibility.

Doe conceded that ‘not all the facts are clear’ of her recollection of the night in question – where she even suggested a female celebrity watched the ordeal happen, before adding: “I have made some mistakes. I may have made a mistake in identifying.”

The 55-year-old, whose wife Beyoncé won a record 35th Grammy earlier this month, issued the following statement through his record label, Roc Nation.

“Today is a victory. The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil suit was without merit and never going anywhere. The fictional tale they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims,” Jay-Z wrote.

“I would not wish this experience on anyone. The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed.

Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and their daughter Blue Ivy Carter attend the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards earlier this month (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

“This 1-800 lawyer gets to file a suit hiding behind Jane Doe, and when they quickly realize that the money grab is going to fail, they get to walk away with no repercussions. The system has failed.”

He added: “The court must protect victims, OF COURSE, while with the same ethical responsibility, the courts must protect the innocent from being accused without a shred of evidence. May the truth prevail for all victims and those falsely accused equally.”

While the allegations against Jay-Z have been dropped, Combs remains in jail as he awaits trial – due to take place on May 5.

It comes after he was indicted by a grand jury following his arrest at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan back in September.

Combs has since been charged with racketeering and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, charges he’s continued to deny. A 14-page federal indictment accuses the rapper of organizing events known as ‘freak offs’.

Jay-Z took the lawsuit public after he claimed he was being ‘blackmailed’ in an attempt to force a settlement (Roc Nation/X)

The indictment accuses Combs and others in his enterprise of ‘wield[ing] the power and prestige of Combs’ role at the Combs Business to intimidate, threaten and lure female victims into Combs’ orbit, often under the pretence of a romantic relationship’.

With the ‘assistance of members and associates’, the document claims Combs ‘transported commercial sex workers across state lines and internationally’ and ‘then used force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers that Combs referred to as, among other things, ‘freak offs’.’

Diddy’s lawyer has said that his client ‘can’t wait’ to take the stand in court and share his version of events.

The rapper is currently being held at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, after being arrested in the city on September 16.

Diddy has since been slapped with multiple charges – including sex trafficking and racketeering – and with the nature of the allegations he’s facing in mind, he’s being held without bond until his trial.

Some of the crimes the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ hitmaker is accused of including sex trafficking and ‘verbal, emotional, physical and sexual’ abuse.

While most criminal defendants don’t take the stand during their trial, apparently Diddy is keen to tell his side of things.

“I don’t know that I could keep him off the stand,” his lawyer Marc Agnifilo told TMZ. “I think he is very eager to tell his story.”

As it stands, no date for the rapper’s trial has been set.

Elsewhere in a teaser clip for TMZ’s new documentary, The Downfall of Diddy, Agnifilo says that the US government put the case together ‘as a takedown of a successful Black man’.

Agnifilio’s comments come after shocking photos of one of the rapper’s dinner parties in Miami has resurfaced in the wake of his arrest.

Marc Agnifilo is representing the disgraced rapper (James Devaney/GC Images)

In the photo dating back to 2004, a naked woman is seen lying on a table surrounded by fruit and candles. The party in question was reportedly hosted by MAC, Hennessy, and Microsoft.

Famous faces to have attended the soirée included Will Smith, Owen Wilson and Charlie Sheen.

Diddy has hosted dozens of parties over the course of his music career, some which prosecutors have said were called ‘Freak Offs’.

In a resurfaced interview with Conan O’Brien, the rapper explained how he throws a good party.

He listed ‘beautiful women’, ‘beautiful men for the ladies’, numerous types of alcohol, but also water as apparently ‘a lot of ladies drink water at parties’ as necessities.

Diddy is known for his infamous parties (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images for Sean “Diddy” Combs)

“If you don’t have what they need then they gon’ leave,” he added.

Diddy went on: “You got to keep’ em there. You need locks on the doors.”

He went on to say that his events were ‘a little kinky’ and he would make sure there was no air conditioning.

“Heat affects the alcohol,” Diddy claimed. “It also affects, like, everyone gets a little bit more comfortable and loose. [It] builds up a nice little sweat.”

O’Brien went on to label the idea as ‘disgusting’.

If you’ve been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can contact The National Sexual Assault Hotline on 800.656.HOPE (4673), available 24/7. Or you can chat online via online.rainn.org

The family of a woman who’s brutal death was ruled as a suicide, despite her having multiple stab wounds across her body, have spoken out following a shocking update.

On January 26, 2011, first-grade teacher Ellen Greenberg was discovered dead in her apartment in Philadelphia, US with a 10-inch blade plunged through her chest directly into her heart, having suffered as many as 20 puncture wounds.

Despite 10 of the stab wounds being located on the back of her head and her neck, with the other 10 found on her midriff, the 27-year-old’s death was ruled as self-inflicted by Assistant Philadelphia Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne.

According to officials, Ellen Greenberg stabbed herself 20 times during her suicide. (Change.org/Ellen Watch)

Her fiancé at the time, Sam Goldberg, had told cops that after kicking down the door to her apartment, he found her covered in blood and attempted CPR while speaking to a 911 dispatcher.

Eight years later in 2019, the parents of Ellen, Joshua and Sandee Greenberg, filed a lawsuit against the Medical Examiner’s office and Osborne himself – which was rejected by the Commonwealth Court last September.

But after appealing their verdict, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week has allowed the hearing to go ahead as a ‘matter of statewide importance’.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Joshua said: “Ellen stabbing herself 20 times before dying is bulls**t. She died from a very vicious, very painful knife attack.”

Greenberg was found dead in her apartment by fiancé Sam Goldberg in January 2011. (Facebook/Justice for Ellen)

He and wife Sandee are hopeful the cause of death on their daughter’s death certificate will be changed once again – after Osbourne had originally ruled Ellen’s death as a homicide before changing it to suicide.

Sandee said: “We’re smiling, we’re very optimistic… I hope we’re making our daughter proud. There’s been a lot of frustration, but we haven’t given up.”

The couple have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting for the cause of death to be reversed, and for their daughter’s death to be reinvestigated.

In response to the appeal, judges explained their reasoning for allowing the lawsuit to go ahead, stating that they were ‘acutely aware of the deeply flawed investigation’.

Greenberg’s parent’s have won their fight to have the cause of her death reexamined. (Facebook/Justice for Ellen)

Joshua continued: “Sandee and I both believe Ellen was going to go home that day.

“She had taken off the engagement ring, had packed up her makeup, which was very valuable to her, and she was planning to leave.

“And I think things didn’t work out well, and she never made it home.”

Goldberg, who has since moved on and has a family of his own, has not spoken publicly about his fiancé’s death and was never labeled as a suspect.

Diddy’s mother has spoken out in defense of her son as he faces a slew of sexual abuse and trafficking allegations.

Janice Combs, Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s mother, issued a statement on Sunday defending her son against his many allegations.

The hip-hop mogul was indicted by federal prosecutors in mid-September on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, and has since been denied bail twice. He has repeatedly denied all the charges levied against him.

The 54-year-old could have as many as 120 people filing against him, according to attorney Tony Buzbee. They are all planning to take legal action against Diddy, and with allegations ranging from exploitation to sexual abuse, the lawsuit is mounting.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been charged with racketeering and sex trafficking charges (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images for Sean “Diddy” Combs)

Buzbee shared that he is intending to file lawsuits against the rapper within the next 30 days from both men and women, with ages between 9 and 38 – including a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted in Diddy’s presence.

Now, Diddy’s mother, Janice Combs, has released a statement through attorney Natlie G. Figgers.

Obtained by the Hollywood Reporter on October 6, she said: “My son is not the monster they have painted him to be, and he deserves the chance to tell his side.

“It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pictured with his mother, Janice Combs (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)

“To bear witness [to] what seems to be like a public lynching of my son before he has had the opportunity to prove his innocence is a pain too unbearable to put into words. Like every human being, my son deserves to have his day in court, to finally share his side, and to prove his innocence.”

She went on to acknowledge that ‘he has made mistakes in his past’, referencing her son reaching a settlement with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura after shocking hotel CCTV footage from 2016 showed him assaulting her.

“My son may not have been entirely truthful about certain things, such as denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the hotel’s surveillance showed otherwise,” she said.

“Sometimes, the truth and a lie become so closely intertwined that it becomes terrifying to admit one part of the story, especially when that truth is outside the norm or is too complicated to be believed.”