The lawyer who Jay-Z accused of civil extortion has fired back at the mogul’s lawsuit in court, In Touch can exclusively report.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, Tony Buzbee, who represents several alleged Diddy victims, said although Jay-Z’s lawsuit against him “contains numerous sensationalistic and histrionic allegations, it fails to state a single viable claim against the Buzbee Parties.”

As In Touch previously reported, Jay-Z (real name: Shawn Carter) filed a lawsuit against Tony on November 18, 2024.

Initially, Jay-Z, 55, used the pseudonym John Doe instead of his real name.

In the lawsuit, the mogul accused the lawyer and his law firm of extortion and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Tony has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.

The suit accused Tony and his firm of “shamelessly attempting to extort exorbitant sums from him or else publicly file wildly false horrific allegations against him. Defendants have threatened to unleash entirely fabricated and malicious allegations of sexual assault — including multiple instances of rape of a minor, both male and female—against Plaintiff if he refuses to comply with their demands.”

The lawsuit continued, “These baseless accusations are nothing more than a weapon in a calculated plot to destroy Plaintiff’s high-profile reputation for profit, despite the complete absence of any factual basis for such claims.”

Tony represents several alleged victims who claim Diddy sexually assaulted them. Diddy has denied all claims of wrongdoing.

In October 2024, Tony filed a lawsuit, on behalf of a Jane Doe, against Diddy and a John Doe. The woman claims she was sexually assaulted at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.

In December, Tony revealed the John Doe listed in the complaint was Jay-Z. Jay-Z and Diddy both denied the allegations in the lawsuit.

Jay-Z then revealed himself as the person who sued Tony in November 2024. Jay-Z and Tony then fought in court over whether Jane Doe should be ordered to reveal her identity.

The judge sided with Jane Doe and has allowed her to proceed anonymously for now.

Now, in Tony’s response to Jay-Z’s lawsuit, he argued that Jay-Z’s case was, “nothing more than a public relations gambit, designed to distract the media and public from the serious allegations of sexual assault and rape that have been made against Carter in a separate legal action.”

“Carter does not (and cannot) point to any actual wrongdoing by the Buzbee Parties whatsoever. Carter’s claims for civil extortion, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress are based on generalized public statements that do not even reference him, and entirely standard-issue pre-litigation communications,” Tony’s motion argued.

Tony said several of his clients identified Jay-Z as an “accomplice of” Diddy and a “preparator of sexual violence against them.”

Tony said all the letters he sent to Jay-Z’s team were part of common litigation practices. “Carter’s attempts to argue that the Buzbee Parties threatened to publicly accuse him of a crime, or expose or impute to him a disgrace or crime, unless he paid money to settle the threatened lawsuit, but his allegations fail for multiple reasons,” the motion read.

As part of his effort to dismiss the claims, Tony attached the letter he sent to Jay-Z’s lawyers in an attempt to settle Jane Doe’s claims.

The letter read, “Due to the trauma of the assault, Doe has endured intense emotional suffering, plagued by overwhelming anxiety and panic. Depression weighs heavily on her. She avoids many social environments and crowded spaces. Her mental and emotional health has deteriorated such that normal daily functioning is unattainable. She fears for her life and constantly relives the horror she endured at the hands of you and your associates over the span of years. She will never fully heal from the atrocities she was forced to commit after being drugged and raped by you and Combs.”

The letter continued, “It has been my experience that when someone does this to a victim once, the likelihood is that they have done the same or similar things to others. I have recommended to Ms. Doe that we immediately file suit, and I expect when we do that other victims will come forward who have been taken advantage of at your hands in the way that Ms. Doe reports. To her credit, Ms. Doe has no real interest in causing a public spectacle, or filing a public lawsuit – but she will do so. She does, however, want something of substance done about this unacceptable situation and your actions.”

“Thus, Ms. Doe hereby demands that within two weeks of the date of this letter your designee contact my office to schedule a confidential mediation. At that mediation, we expect the attendance of you or someone with authority to act on your behalf, who can work together with Ms. Doe to resolve this delicate and important matter. If my office fails to hear from you or your designee by close of business on November 19, 2024, we will take a different course,” the letter added. “Should this demand to reasonably mediate not be accepted, Ms. Doe will have no choice but to file suit in a court of law and see all legal remedies available. We will of course provide you or your attorney details that identify Ms. Doe once we hear from you.”

Both cases are ongoing.