A woman who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Jay-Z is now fighting to keep her identity anonymous after the music mogul sued her for defamation.
Jane Doe and her doctors argued that public exposure could lead to psychological harm.
“From a psychiatric standpoint, the forced disclosure of her identity in this context would have catastrophic consequences for her mental health,” Doe’s psychiatrist, Dr. John T. Olsen argued in court. “Such public exposure would destabilize her current mental health recovery.”
“The impact would likely be severe, with a high risk of exacerbation of her psychiatric symptoms, deterioration of her functioning, and a profound negative effect on her overall prognosis,” Olsen added.
Doe initially claimed that Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs took turns sexually assaulting her when she was just 13 at a VMA after-party back in 2000. She later dropped her lawsuit.
The rapper’s lawsuit against Doe alleges she timed her lawsuit “to inflict maximum pain and suffering on Mr. Carter” to extort payments from him and that Doe and her attorneys, Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, “were soullessly motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts of human decency.”
Jay-Z is suing her for $20 million, the amount he allegedly lost in business deals due to her lawsuit filing.