The Latest Breaking News from JayZ

The two New York rap music moguls have been linked in various ways since the mid-1990s

Jay-Z refutes rape allegation, accuses extortion in ongoing legal battle with woman's lawyer. Accuser seeks mediation, not money. Combs faces sex trafficki...

Since he emerged onto the music scene in the early Nineties, Jay-Z has achieved a rare kind of cultural status within the entertainment industry. Once the bad boy from the hood, he has cultivated the persona of the measured, phlegmatic genius, the Brooklyn drug dealer turned billionaire tycoon so esteemed…

The rapper Jay-Z says that a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt

He has denied the accusation, which was added to an ongoing lawsuit against Sean 'Diddy' Combs

Rapper and singer have three children together from two-decade relationship

Jay-Z denies allegations that unnamed girl was drugged and raped by him and Combs at a party after MTV music awards in 2000

Carter has branded the lawsuit part of a ‘blackmail attempt’ by the claimant’s lawyer, saying his ‘only heartbreak’ was for his family.

Music mogul branded the claims ‘idiotic’ and said ‘my only heartbreak is for my family’

Jay-Z is accused with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of drugging and raping a girl at an MTV afterparty in New York

Jay-Z has vowed to defend himself after he was accused of raping and drugging a 13-year-old girl with Sean 'Diddy' Combs.