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Tony Buzbee Hands Jay-Z A Stunning Defeat – For Now

Jay-Z has lost his appeal against Tony Buzbee after a California court upheld the dismissal of the rapper’s defamation, extortion and emotional-distress claims against the Houston lawyer. The ruling closes one major chapter in Jay-Z’s legal counterattack following Jane Doe’s now-dismissed lawsuit accusing him and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. The California Court of Appeal affirmed the June 2025 decision that threw out Jay-Z’s lawsuit under the state’s anti-SLAPP law, which can remove claims tied to protected speech and litigation activity early in a case.

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