NEW YORK >> Jay-Z has filed a defamation lawsuit against his Jane Doe rape accuser and her attorneys Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, claiming the woman had admitted her sexual assault allegations were false.

The rapper said he has lost $20 million in contracts and suffered extreme “mental anguish” since the woman accused him in December of assaulting her alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13. She dropped his name from the suit on Feb. 14 after admitting to inconsistencies in her story.

Jay-Z, whose legal name is Shawn Carter, sued on Monday alleging malicious prosecution, abuse of process and civil conspiracy on the part of Doe, Buzbee and Fortney.

In the suit, his lawyers claim the alleged victim “voluntarily admitted directly to representatives of Mr. Carter that the story brought before the world in court and on global television was just that: a false, malicious story,” according to a copy obtained by The Guardian.

Buzbee immediately shot back, saying the case has “no legal merit” because Jane Doe never withdrew her allegations, just the lawsuit, and that she did so because Jay-Z’s reps were intimidating her.

“After speaking with Jane Doe today, it appears that the quotes attributed to her in the lawsuit are completely made up, or they spoke to someone who isn’t Jane Doe,” Buzbee told People in a statement. “This is just another attempt to intimidate and bully this poor woman that we will deal with in due course. We won’t be bullied or intimidated by frivolous cases.”