Snoop Dogg is firing back at his unidentified accuser, calling her sex assault lawsuit filed Wednesday a “meritless” attempt to squeeze him for cash in the run-up to his Super Bowl halftime performance Sunday.
The Jane Doe accuser alleges in her complaint that Snoop (born Calvin Broadus) sexually assaulted her in a recording studio bathroom in 2013, during an era when she claims she worked for the rapper as a stage dancer.
In a statement shared Friday with Rolling Stone, a Snoop spokesperson panned the lawsuit’s claims as “simply meritless.” “They appear to be part of a self-enrichment shakedown scheme by [the accuser] to extort Snoop Dogg right before he performs during this Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show,” the statement reads. It accuses the woman of “concocting” a complaint that “manufactures an occurrence of more than eight years ago, in 2013, for her…