• Attorney Tony Buzbee accused Jay-Z's Roc Nation of trying to flip his clients to sue his firm.
• Buzbee is representing a woman who accused Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape.
• Roc Nation said Buzbee's lawsuit is a distraction and a "sham."

The legal fight between Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, and attorney Tony Buzbee is heating up.

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Buzbee, the attorney representing a woman who accused Carter and Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape, accused Carter's Roc Nation of using "shadowy operatives" to solicit Buzbee's former clients to flip and sue him.

"These folks have stooped to a new low to try to intimidate the lawyers of the Buzbee Law Firm from doing their important work. This conduct was specifically targeted at our firm so we would not pursue cases related to the Diddy litigation," Buzbee said in a statement to Business Insider. "But, we will not be bullied or intimidated."

Buzbee's lawsuit — which was filed in Harris County, Texas, on behalf of a former client of Buzbee's firm and includes allegations of barratry and conspiracy — accused Roc Nation of financing the scheme, and other defendants, including two legal firms, an attorney, and an investigator, of orchestrating and executing it.

"Unfortunately for the Defendants, their agents are not very smart, or careful," Buzbee's lawsuit said.

Buzbee's lawsuit said the defendants impersonated Texas state officials and "flashed fake badges."

In one case, he said they "offered as much as $10,000 to a former client of the Buzbee Law Firm to sue the firm."

A spokesperson for Roc Nation said in a statement that Buzbee's suit was merely a distraction.

"Tony Buzbee's baloney lawsuit against ROCNATION is nothing but another sham. It's a pathetic attempt to distract and deflect attention. This sideshow won't change the ultimate outcome and true justice will be served soon," the spokesperson said.

Buzbee's accusations come after a woman identified in court papers only as Jane Doe filed a civil case against Carter and Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the two of raping her at a party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards when she was 13 years old. Buzbee is representing her.

Carter vehemently denied Doe's allegations, which come while Combs faces sex trafficking and racketeering charges, along with lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct. Combs remains in jail while he awaits his trial.

In Carter's denial, he called Buzbee a "deplorable human."

"I promise you I have seen your kind many times over. I'm more than prepared to deal with your type," Carter wrote in a statement on his company Roc Nation's X account, addressing Buzbee directly.

The initial lawsuit didn't name Carter, referring to him instead as "Celebrity A."

Before naming Carter, Buzbee reached out to him to propose Doe and Carter mediate the case, the lawyer previously told Business Insider. Buzbee said Carter responded with "an utterly frivolous lawsuit" and by "orchestrating a conspiracy of harassment, bullying and intimidation" against Buzbee and his legal team.

Since Doe's lawsuit was filed, critical questions have emerged about some of her allegations. Following an interview with the woman and her father, who she said drove her home on the night of her alleged assault, NBC News reported inconsistencies in the story.

Her father, for example, told the outlet that he didn't remember picking her up that night.

When asked about other inconsistencies, she told the outlet she had made "mistakes" but stood by the brunt of her allegations.

In a court filing Wednesday, an attorney for Carter argued that the "allegations are baseless and fatally contradicted" by the woman and her father's statements to NBC. Carter's attorney is seeking an order to show cause — which seeks an explanation as to why the inconsistencies aren't enough for Carter to be "dismissed" from the lawsuit accusing him of rape.

If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673) or visit its website to receive confidential support.

• Jay-Z has filed his first response to a lawsuit alleging he and Sean "Diddy" Combs raped a 13-year-old.
• He said he wanted to force the woman to proceed under her real name instead of Jane Doe.
• A lawyer for the woman said she fears retribution and harassment if she is named.

Rapper Jay-Z is fighting to quickly unmask the Jane Doe accuser who has sued him and Sean "Diddy" Combs over allegations that she was sexually attacked after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards when she was 13 years old.

The accuser, who lives in Alabama, alleges in her lawsuit that she was given a drugged drink at a party "at a large white house" somewhere in New York, and was then raped by both rap A-listers as a third, unnamed female celebrity watched.

In papers filed Monday, a lawyer for Jay-Z — given name Shawn Carter — complained that the accuser should not be allowed to tarnish his name while hiding her identity.

In a 29-page filing in federal court in Manhattan, Carter says that the woman had previously sought money from him and that he had refused to pay.

The filing is Carter's first formal response to the new accusations, and follows his strongly-worded denial from Sunday on his company Roc Nation's X account.

Carter's attorney, Alex Spiro, said in Monday's filing that the lawsuit is a good thing.

"Now, at last, the false, unfounded allegations that underlie this campaign of extortion are having judicial light shined on them," Spiro wrote. "Except that this Plaintiff is bringing them as a Doe, who would continue to hide under cover of darkness."

When the Jane Doe first filed her lawsuit, in October, she had named only Combs, his companies and his associates as defendants. On Sunday she filed an updated lawsuit that removed a reference to "Celebrity A" and added "Shawn Carter" as defendant.

"Another celebrity stood by and watched as Combs and Carter took turns assaulting the minor," the updated lawsuit reads, continuing to protect the identity of that third person.

The woman's lawyer, Tony Buzbee, confirmed to Business Insider on Sunday there had been previous contact between the Jane Doe and Carter. Buzbee said he had sent a letter to Carter requesting mediation before naming him in Sunday's updated lawsuit.

Carter responded to that outreach with a campaign of "harassment, bullying, and intimidation against Plaintiff's lawyers, their families, employees, and former associates in an attempt to silence Plaintiff from naming Jay-Z herein," the updated lawsuit alleges.

In fighting to keep his client's Jane Doe status as the lawsuit proceeds, Buzbee told a federal judge on Sunday that anonymity is necessary to protect all of his clients who are accusing Combs of sexual assault.

"My firm currently represents over 200 clients with claims against Mr. Combs," Buzbee wrote in a filing on Sunday.

More than 80 percent of these clients have said Combs threatened them or their family members in hopes of keeping them quiet, Buzbee wrote.

"For many of the clients referenced above, Mr. Combs' threats of violence were a primary reason why they did not speak out or file lawsuits earlier. Most of our clients still fear retribution and have conditioned moving forward on anonymity," he wrote.

Since mid-October, Buzbee has filed some 20 lawsuits in which men and women allege they were sexually assaulted by Combs.

Buzbee told Business Insider that he had anticipated Carter's move to unmask his client and said that he would be filing a response "in due course."

He also said that he believes Carter is the celebrity John Doe who sued him in November. "He sued me under a pseudonym but files a motion to reveal the victim," Buzbee said.

BI could not confirm that Jay-Z is the one suing Buzbee. The John Doe plaintiff's identity has not been revealed in court filings and would not have been disclosed in the documents Buzbee was served.

Spiro did not immediately respond to requests by phone and email for comment on this story.

In a separate filing on Monday, Spiro also asked US District Court Judge Analisa Torres to schedule a hearing "on an expedited basis" at which both sides would make their case for why the plaintiff should or should not remain anonymous.

"For the avoidance of doubt, Mr. Carter is entirely innocent," he wrote. "This is a shakedown."

He added, "Allowing Plaintiff to proceed anonymously would deny Mr. Carter the fundamental right to confront his accuser, while simultaneously enabling Plaintiff and her counsel to conduct a trial by media."

Combs remains held in a federal jail in Brooklyn on his September federal sex-trafficking indictment. Combs has pleaded not guilty and has promised to fight that indictment at a trial scheduled for May 5.