After years of public claims and authorized filings, a long-running paternity case involving hip-hop icon Jay-Z has formally been dismissed.

The case centered round Rymir Satterthwaite, a 30-year-old New Jersey man who has claimed for greater than a decade that Jay-Z—born Shawn Carter—is his organic father. Satterthwaite alleged that his late mom, Wanda Satterthwaite, had a relationship with the rapper within the early Nineteen Nineties, years earlier than Jay-Z’s rise to international fame.

Satterthwaite filed a number of petitions through the years looking for a court-ordered DNA take a look at, however none of his claims gained authorized traction. Courts beforehand dismissed his filings on procedural grounds, together with lack of jurisdiction and inadequate proof.

In May 2025, Satterthwaite filed a brand new lawsuit in federal courtroom towards Jay-Z, as soon as once more requesting paternity affirmation and extra damages. Jay-Z’s authorized crew swiftly responded, describing the allegations as “fabricated and harassing,” and accused Satterthwaite of constant a “decades-long pattern of meritless litigation.”

By July 2025, the case was withdrawn and dismissed, ending the newest authorized chapter within the saga. According to courtroom data, the case was voluntarily dropped by Satterthwaite, successfully closing the matter. It’s unclear whether or not the dismissal was “with prejudice” (stopping refiling) or “without prejudice,” which might enable Satterthwaite to refile at a later time.

At the guts of the controversy stays a single unanswered query: whether or not Jay-Z ever took a DNA take a look at to verify or deny paternity. Satterthwaite has lengthy insisted he needs “only the truth,” whereas Jay-Z has by no means publicly addressed the declare intimately. No courtroom has compelled the rapper to take such a take a look at, and no verified DNA outcomes have ever been made public.

Jay-Z’s attorneys have maintained that their shopper has no connection to Satterthwaite or his late mom, asserting that the repeated lawsuits are an try to use the rapper’s fame. “The allegations are baseless,” a consultant acknowledged earlier this 12 months, “and have already been dismissed multiple times by the courts.”

Satterthwaite, in the meantime, has mentioned that he hopes to carry closure to his household’s decades-long pursuit of solutions. “I never wanted money,” he beforehand advised The Daily Mail. “All I ever wanted was the truth.”