Earlier this month, Jay-Z - real name Shawn Corey Carter - was named in a civil lawsuit in which he was accused of raping a teenager in 2000 alongside fellow rapper Sean Diddy Combs, 55, while an unnamed female celebrity watched. Jay-Z has strongly denied the accusations, and had made efforts to force his accuser to waive her anonymity.

Jay-Z and his hard-charging attorney were handed a setback Thursday by the judge overseeing a claim that the star raped a 13-year-old girl at a Diddy party. The billionaire rapper, real name Shawn Carter,

Judge Analisa Torres also ruled Thursday that the Alabama woman accusing the rapper of rape could proceed anonymously at this early stage of the litigation.

A New York judge has ruled that the identity of the woman who accused Jay-Z, real name Sean Carter, of raping her when she was 13 years old be kept secret. The decision comes after the rap mogul's lawyer pushed for her name to be revealed.