‘Pushed me’: Jay-Z rape accuser caught on bombshell tape

The woman who accused rapper Jay-Z of raping her when she was just 13 has been caught on tape talking about the alleged attack in a shock twist. Hear the audio.

The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 was caught on an audio recording apparently admitting that the decades-old attack never happened — and that her lawyer pushed her to slap the rapper with a lawsuit.

The woman’s suit, originally filed in Manhattan federal court, was quietly withdrawn by her attorney last month after she alleged the hip-hop legend assaulted her with Sean “Diddy” Combs at a New York VMAs afterparty in 2000.

Jay-Z fiercely denied the rape alleagtionas and the lawsuit was later withdrawn. Picture: AFP

A recording obtained by ABC News has since emerged that captures the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, telling two of Jay-Z’s private investigators that the alleged attack didn’t occur.

“He was just there, but he didn’t have anything to do with any sexual acts towards you?” the private investigator can be heard asking in the clip.

“Yeah,” the woman responded.

Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, fiercely denied the allegations when the lawsuit was first filed last December.

Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z with his wife, superstar Beyonce. Picture: AFP

Elsewhere in the recording, Jane Doe claimed her lawyer — Tony Buzbee — allegedly pressured her to file the suit against the hip-hop mogul.

“He was the one that kind of pushed me towards going forward with him, with Jay-Z,” the woman said in the recording.

“Buzbee did?” one of the investigators asked, before she replied: “Yeah.”

Buzbee, who is repping scores of Diddy accusers, filed a “voluntary notice of dismissal” to end the woman’s suit on February 14.

Jay-Z in 2004 with Will Smith, Ashton Kutcher and how jailed music producer Sean “P Diddy” Combs. Picture: Getty Images

The case was dismissed with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled.

Buzbee said it was a “blatant lie” that he pushed the woman into suing.

“As far as the suggestion that I pushed Jane Doe to bring a case against Jay Z — that is a blatant lie that is directly contrary to all the documentary evidence,” he said in a statement.

But Jay-Z’s attorney, Alex Spiro, said the apparent recording “speaks for itself.”

“She says in no uncertain terms Mr Carter did not do this. It’s effectively a lie and the only reason Mr Carter is even involved in this is because she was pushed to involve him,” he said.

The woman, meanwhile, has since said in a sworn declaration that she stands by her initial claims.

She said she dropped the lawsuit because she feared “intimidation and retaliation” from the rapper and his fans.

In the initial suit, the alleged victim claimed she was attacked by Combs and Carter at a drug-fuelled house party in September 2000 after the VMAs show at Radio City Music Hall.

The complaint was originally filed in October against Diddy alone but was later amended to include Jay-Z.

Jay-Z has since filed a defamation lawsuit against Jane Doe and Buzbee.

This article was originally published on the New York Post

Originally published as ‘Pushed me’: Jay-Z rape accuser caught on bombshell tape