JAY-Z Wins $119K Judgment Towards Lillie Coley

[ad_1] by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton January 16, 2026

The rapper was awarded the judgment in opposition to Lillie Coley

Former Roc-A-Fella Information proprietor JAY-Z has scored a victory in opposition to Lillie Coley, the godmother of Rymir Satterthwaite, who has been claiming for years that he's the son of the billionaire mogul.

In keeping with AllHipHop, a federal choose has ordered Coley to pay the legal professional charges for JAY-Z’s legal professionals, totaling $119,235.45. The California choose acknowledged that Coley “shall take nothing” from the “Arduous Knock Life” rapper and made the choice primarily based on California’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Towards Public Participation) statute. This newest transfer comes after Coley requested a federal choose for an emergency restraining order after attorneys for JAY-Z acknowledged they had been shifting ahead to ask the courtroom to penalize her over what has been described as “decades-long harassment.”

Her request was denied, resulting in the choose’s ruling.

Coley filed a brand new lawsuit in California in 2025, accusing the Brooklyn businessman of neglect and claiming that he and state officers used outdated courtroom orders to strain her and Satterthwaite. She additionally acknowledged that their authorized strikes pressured her into chapter 11 and jeopardized her property. She argued that they misrepresented earlier rulings.

The courts dismissed the godmother’s lawsuit with prejudice in 2025, which cleared the way in which for JAY-Z’s authorized crew to pursue sanctions.

Thirty-one-year-old Satterthwaite claimed that JAY-Z had sexual relations together with his now-deceased mom within the Nineteen Nineties. She was 16, whereas the rapper was 22, when the alleged incident occurred. He stated he filed a number of paternity fits in opposition to the rapper, however that every one had been dismissed.

In 2022, based on courtroom information, a New Jersey choose barred Coley and Satterthwaite from submitting any extra lawsuits in that state with out acquiring the courtroom’s approval. The choose concluded that the repeated makes an attempt to litigate the paternity challenge had failed.

By means of every try at a lawsuit and attempting to get DNA from JAY-Z, the rapper blocked each transfer and has all the time denied the paternity accusations.