Jay-Z’s title was cleared in a California courtroom this week as a long-disputed paternity case was completely dismissed.

Jay-Z noticed a years-long authorized battle over paternity allegations come to a definitive finish this week when a federal choose in California dismissed the lawsuit “with prejudice,” completely closing the door on any future claims tied to the case.

The resolution, issued Wednesday by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, means the case can’t be refiled.

“The Court has read and considered the motion and concluded that it is suitable for decision without oral argument,” the choose wrote within the ruling.

The go well with was filed by Lillie Coley, who recognized herself because the godmother and authorized guardian of Rymir Satterthwaite, a person in his early 30s who has lengthy alleged that the Hip-Hop mogul is his organic father. Coley claimed that Jay-Z fathered Satterthwaite within the mid-Nineteen Nineties throughout a relationship with Wanda Satterthwaite, who handed away in 2019.

According to court docket information, Satterthwaite was born in July 1993. A 2010 paternity check dominated out Robert Graves, Wanda’s boyfriend on the time, because the organic father. Since then, Coley and Satterthwaite have spent years making an attempt to deliver the case earlier than courts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, searching for to compel Jay-Z to take a DNA check.

In December, Satterthwaite informed the Daily Mail he was not enthusiastic about monetary compensation however wished readability.

“I really want to resolve this,” he stated. “I want to resolve this and get this matter done. I really do. I don’t want any money. I just want the truth.”

Jay-Z has repeatedly denied the allegations. His authorized crew described the litigation as a “decades-long campaign of harassment.” The choose additionally dominated Jay-Z can go after Coley for the price of litigating the difficulty.

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