{"id":61320,"date":"2025-02-15T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61320"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:40:24","slug":"jay-z-diddy-accuser-drops-sexual-assault-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/15\/jay-z-diddy-accuser-drops-sexual-assault-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z, Diddy Accuser Drops Sexual Assault Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The woman who accused hip-hop moguls Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs and Jay-Z of sexual assault has officially withdrawn her lawsuit, court documents confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which alleged that both men assaulted her at a 2000 MTV Video Music Awards after-party when she was 13, was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.<\/p>\n<p>Jay-Z welcomed the dismissal, calling the claims \u201cfrivolous, fictitious, and appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed relief for himself and his family, denouncing the allegations as baseless.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Diddy still faces serious federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, with prosecutors accusing him of orchestrating drug-fueled abuse. His trial is set for May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The woman who accused hip-hop moguls Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs and Jay-Z of sexual assault has officially withdrawn her lawsuit, court documents confirmed on Friday. The lawsuit, which alleged that both men assaulted her at a 2000 MTV Video Music Awards after-party when she was 13, was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61322,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61320\/revisions\/61322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}