For a hot minute, the allegations read like a hip-hop horror script: a Jane Doe lawsuit tied to an alleged 2000 MTV VMAs afterparty assault, with Sean “Diddy” Combs and Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter named as defendants. Then—almost as fast as the headlines spread—the legal board got rearranged.
First, the lawsuit quietly shed a major name: Bad Boy Records LLC. A notice filed in the Southern District of New York shows the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the case with prejudice—meaning that specific defendant couldn’t be brought back into the same claim later.
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