JAY-Z thinks his extortion case against Tony Buzbee is stronger than ever now that the Texas attorney’s client recanted her rape allegations. 

According to a report Rolling Stone published on Monday, September 28, attorneys for the multihyphenate artist, born Shawn Carter, requested that a California appeals court revisit his extortion and defamation case against Buzbee and his law firm after the court recently refused to revive it. Carter’s previous attempt to appeal the lower court’s dismissal failed last year. Now, his legal team believes the former rape accuser’s retraction revealed “explosive new evidence” that should allow the lawsuit to move forward in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. 

In the retraction submitted last week, Jane Doe admitted that Carter “never” raped her and said she’d never met him before. “Carter never engaged in any inappropriate conduct toward me whatsoever,” the woman wrote. “There is no truth to any of my claims against Mr. Carter. I understand my false accusations have caused Mr. Carter immense pain, suffering, and damage that can never be fully undone.”

Carter sued Buzbee in Los Angeles two years ago. In his lawsuit, Carter accused Buzbee of making rape allegations he knew were false in a demand letter for money to resolve the matter. At the time, Buzbee was already in the middle of Jane Doe’s lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, who she also accused of raping her at 13 at an afterparty for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. Buzbee had claimed that a second, unnamed celebrity also raped Doe with Combs.