Both men denied the accusations, which concerned an alleged incident at a party in 2000, and the case was withdrawn in February 2025.<\/p>\n
“It was hard, really hard. I was heartbroken,” the 25-time Grammy winner told GQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We’re in a space now where it’s almost like consequence is not thought about enough,” he added.<\/p>\n “Because everything is so instant, you know what I’m saying?”<\/p>\n Image: ‘I haven’t been that angry in a long time’<\/p>\n At the time, he described the clams as a “blackmail attempt” and said they were “heinous in nature”.<\/p>\n The 56-year-old later filed a motion that the accuser must be named that was struck down by a judge.<\/p>\n He also sued the accuser and their lawyer in March 2025<\/a> for allegedly conspiring to falsely accuse him of sexual assault and causing him to lose $20m.<\/p>\n Jay-Z, who has been married to Beyonce for 17 years, told GQ of the allegations: “I was angry. I haven’t been that angry in a long time, uncontrollable anger.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: “The fictional tale they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims,” he continued.<\/p>\n “I would not wish this experience on anyone.<\/p>\n “The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed.”<\/p>\n Jay-Z carried out the interview to mark 30 years since his debut album, Reasonable Doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay-Z has said he felt “uncontrollable anger” after a sexual assault lawsuit was filed against him. The rapper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jay-Z](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-blue-ivy-carte-beyonce_6772151.jpg\")
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\n Jay-Z with wife Beyonce and daughter Blue Ivy. Pic: AP<\/p>\n
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