Taylor Swift was spotted toasting Jay-Z at the Grammys on Sunday night amid his rape allegations.
The 55-year-old rapper has been accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl at an MTV Video Music Awards after party in 2000.
Last month, Jay-Z - real name Shawn Carter - was granted a request to file for dismissal of the rape lawsuit.
Amid the controversy, Swift, 35, shared her support for the rapper while celebrating his wife Beyonce’s win for Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter at the Grammys.
Swift - who was also nominated in the category - was spotted smiling and clinking champagne glasses with the music mogul.
The duo was pictured standing next to each other and saying “cheers” in a moment caught on camera.
It is the first time Beyonce, 43, has won in the category.
Swift, Andre 3000, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Charlie XCX, Jacob Collier, and Chappell Roan were also nominated for the coveted accolade.
Jay-Z was sued last year by a woman known only as Jane Doe for alleged rape.
She claimed she befriended a limo driver outside the MTV Music Awards ceremony who drove her to the after party where she was allegedly raped.
She alleged that she fled the party after the alleged rape and called her father from a nearby gas station to pick her up.
Her father has said he does not remember driving from Rochester to pick her up in New York City.
Jay-Z called the allegations “idiotic” in a lengthy statement to NBC News.
He added: "These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?”
Earlier this month, Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York granted Jay-Z’s attorney Alex Spiro’s request to enter a dismissal motion in the lawsuit.
Spiro had argued that the Alabama woman’s lawsuit was too old to pursue, in a December 30 letter to Judge Torres.
He said Jay-Z’s accuser cannot sue the rapper under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act law because it only came into effect after she alleges she was assaulted.
He pointed out that the GMV law was introduced in December 2000 - three months after the alleged rape in September 2000.
