{"id":263782,"date":"2024-12-11T11:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/11\/jay-z-denies-rape-allegations\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:15:42","slug":"jay-z-denies-rape-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/11\/jay-z-denies-rape-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Denies Rape Allegations &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jay-Z\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>American rapper and entrepreneur, Shawn Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z, has strongly denied allegations of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 alongside music mogul Sean Combs, also known as Diddy.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations were brought forward in a civil lawsuit filed by lawyer Tony Buzbee, accusing Jay-Z of statutory rape.<\/p>\n<p>Responding swiftly via his social media on Sunday, Jay-Z dismissed the claims as \u201cfalse and blackmail\u201d and challenged Buzbee to pursue a criminal case instead of a civil one.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Jay-Z said, \u201cMy lawyer received a blackmail attempt, called a demand letter, from a \u2018lawyer\u2019 named Tony Buzbee. 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