Jay-Z has filed a defamation lawsuit against attorney Tony Buzbee, claiming a rape lawsuit cost him $20 million and was deliberately timed to inflict maximum harm.

A lawsuit claiming that JAY-Z raped a 13-year-old girl in 2000 has been legally dismissed.

Jay-Z has declared “victory” after a Diddy lawsuit that also accused him of rape was dismissed by the women who filed it. However, he said, the trauma his family have endured since he was named as a co-defendant can’t be dismissed,

Houston Lawyer Tony Buzbee dropped a civil lawsuit in which Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, and Sean "Diddy" Combs were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Jay-Z immediately denied the claims.

Texas attorney Tony Buzbee has filed more than a dozen individual cases of abuse against Sean Combs, and one against Jay-Z.

Jay-Z has spoken out in court about feeling like he had a "gun to his head" because of the now-dismissed lawsuit that attorney Tony Buzbee filed against him. The rap legend filed a declaration on Feb.

The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed,” Jay-Z said in a statement.

Following the lawsuit dismissal against JAY-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs over the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2000, Roc Nation, issued a statement signed by JAY-Z using his real name, Shawn Carter,

Jay-Z and Diddy had been accused by an unnamed woman of drugging and raping her at an after-party for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards