Several weeks before Jay-Z was accused in a lawsuit of raping a minor with Sean Combs55x casino, he received a letter from a plaintiff’s lawyer threatening to “immediately file” a “public lawsuit” against him unless he agreed to resolve the matter through mediation for money, his lawyers said.

Lawyers for Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter), who has vehemently denied the allegations, took a different tack: They sued the attorney who sent the demand letter, Tony Buzbee, who has filed a cascade of lawsuits accusing Mr. Combs, known as Diddy, of sexual misconduct.

In the suit, in which Mr. Carter was identified only as “John Doe” and described as a “celebrity and public figure,” the rapper accused Mr. Buzbee of attempting to “extort exorbitant sums” from him by making false assault claims.

On Sunday night, Mr. Buzbee amended a lawsuit on behalf of an unnamed plaintiff to publicly accuse Mr. Carter of raping her with Mr. Combs when she was 13, in 2000, which Mr. Carter denied. And on Monday, Mr. Carter’s lawyers revealed that he was the “John Doe” who had filed the suit against Mr. Buzbee.

“Plaintiff presently faces a gun to his head,” lawyers for Mr. Carter wrote in the suit, filed on Nov. 18 in Los Angeles Superior Court, “either repeatedly pay an exorbitant sum of money to stop Defendants from the wide publication of wildly false allegations of sexual assault that would subject Plaintiff to opprobrium and irreparably harm Plaintiff’s reputation, family, career and livelihood, or else face the threat of an untold number of civil suits and financial and personal ruin.”

In an email on Monday, Mr. Buzbee said that “sending a basic litigation demand letter” did not amount to extortion or blackmail, noting, “That’s the legal practice.” He said the letter sent to Mr. Carter asked for a “confidential sit down” to discuss the accusations so their client’s privacy would be protected.

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