Jay-Z’s paternity case dismissed 10 years after man claimed he was fathered by rapper
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Page Six has reported that a paternity lawsuit brought by Rymir Satterthwaite, who claims Jay-Z as his father, has been permanently dismissed.

According to court documents accessed by Page Six on Wednesday, a judge in California approved the motion to dismiss the federal paternity case, which had been filed earlier this year by Satterthwaite’s legal guardian and paralegal, Lillie Coley.

This ruling signifies that Satterthwaite, who is 30 years old, is barred from refiling the lawsuit or demanding paternity testing from Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, regarding this issue.

Although Page Six reached out for comments from Jay-Z’s representatives, no response was provided.

In his court filings, Satterthwaite claimed that the renowned rapper, known for hits like “99 Problems,” fathered him with his late mother, Wanda Satterthwaite, during the 1990s.

Carter has repeatedly denied he is Rymir’s father.

Rymir previously claimed he was withdrawing his federal paternity case.

“I did withdraw my case,” Rymir said in a July 27 Instagram upload, adding that he was abandoning the lawsuit because there was plenty “going on behind closed doors.”

“I have not stopped my fight,” Rymir continued. “We got to step back and play chess, not checkers.”

At the time, attorneys for Carter, 55, slammed the longtime paternity allegations as “harassment.”

“The fabricated allegations and claims have been addressed—and rejected—in multiple other courts,” the documents read, describing the legal actions as “just the latest” in a “decades long” string of “harassment.”

Rymir denied in documents that he was filing the suit for what amounts to back child support, but claimed instead he was seeking reputational and emotional distress damages.

The aspiring musician alleged in the original documents that the Grammy winning artist “committed fraud upon multiple courts, misrepresented facts, interfered with procedural due process and exploited legal systems in multiple jurisdictions to suppress Plaintiff Rymir’s paternity claim.”

In May 2023, Rymir filed a court order seeking to force Carter — who is dad to kids Blue Ivy, 13, and twins Rumi and Sir, 8, with wife Beyoncé — to take a DNA test.

At the time, Rymir vowed not to back down. “This is not going to be over until justice is served,” he told Daily Mail in 2023.

“I won’t stop fighting for this until I win,” he added. “And I will win because the law is on our side.”

The “Empire State of Mind” rapper’s attorney responded in a letter to the outlet.

“The allegations have been previously reviewed thoroughly by the courts and have been refuted,” they wrote.

“I am sure that will be the outcome of whatever filings Mr. Satterthwaite may be currently considering.”

Satterthwaite, who is an aspiring rapper himself, has alleged that his mother Wanda told him Carter is his biological father when he was eight years old.

Prior to her 2016 death, Wanda filed a civil lawsuit in New Jersey seeking child support from Carter, whom she claimed to have had an on/off relationship with.

The lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that it was filed in the wrong state, and was not re-filed until Coley and Rymir submitted documents in 2014.

The matter became public the following year, in 2015, when documents emerged claiming Carter lied to a New Jersey court to avoid taking a DNA test.

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