By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN

(CNN) — A Jane Doe who alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z sexually assaulted her 25 years ago has withdrawn her lawsuit against them.

In a notice of voluntary dismissal filed Friday, attorneys for the woman dropped the lawsuit with prejudice, preventing it from being re-filed in the future.

“Counsel of Plaintiff have discussed this matter with counsel for each Defendant, who acknowledge and consent to this submission,” stated the court filing, signed by Doe’s attorneys.

A lawyer for Jay-Z, whose legal name is Shawn Carter, hailed the development.

“The false case against Jay-Z, that never should have been brought, has been dismissed with prejudice,” Carter’s attorney, Alex Spiro, said in a statement. “By standing up in the face of heinous and false allegations, Jay has done what few can – he pushed back, he never settled, he never paid 1 red penny, he triumphed and cleared his name.”

Doe’s lawsuit was initially filed against Combs in October 2024 in which she alleged she was drugged and raped by him, along with another celebrity, at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000, when she was 13 years old. In an amended complaint, filed in December 2024, Carter was added as a defendant and accused of rape.

Carter vigorously denied the allegations, calling them “so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one.”

Carter’s attorneys had made numerous efforts to get the case thrown out, prior to Doe dropping her lawsuit.

In December, a judge denied Carter’s request to dismiss the case and granted Doe the ability to proceed anonymously, after Carter’s team had asked the judge to have her reveal her identity. At the time, the judge penned a scathing decision, condemning Carter’s attorney’s “relentless filing of combative motions” in his efforts to dismiss the case as “inappropriate.”

In January, Carter’s lawyers sought again to dismiss the lawsuit and asked the judge to issue sanctions against the attorney who filed the case after several inconsistencies in Doe’s allegations were revealed.

Doe acknowledged inconsistencies in her recollection of the events in an interview with NBC but stood by her allegation that she was raped. Her attorney, Tony Buzbee, told CNN at the time, “Our client remains fiercely adamant that what she has stated is true, to the best of her memory.”

Combs’ attorneys told CNN that the dismissal of Doe’s case is “another confirmation that these lawsuits are built on falsehoods, not facts” and denounced “case after case filed by individuals hiding behind anonymity.”

Combs, who faces more than 40 sexual assault lawsuits, was indicted in September on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

On Friday, Combs’ attorney told CNN he has “never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minor.”

Doe’s attorney declined to comment.

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