After more than a decade of legal fights, Rymir Satterthwaite has officially dropped his lawsuit accusing Jay-Z of being his father. Satterthwaite has been pursuing the claim since 2010, alleging the rap mogul had a relationship with his late mother, Wanda, in the early 1990s.
According to Us Weekly, Jay-Z’s legal team has fought these accusations for years, calling them baseless and labeling the string of lawsuits as harassment. The courts have repeatedly dismissed Satterthwaite’s filings due to lack of evidence, jurisdictional issues, and Pennsylvania’s statute of limitations. In 2022, Satterthwaite was even hit with an injunction for what a judge deemed “frivolous” and excessive filings.
Jay-Z has consistently denied the paternity claims and has never submitted to a DNA test. Satterthwaite’s lawyers point to the fact that another man, Robert Graves, was once ruled out through a court-ordered DNA test. However, Satterthwaite’s paternity was officially established for another man in a separate legal proceeding, where the individual was ordered to pay child support in the 1990s — complicating his efforts to pursue the case against Jay-Z.
Satterthwaite’s decision to drop the lawsuit marks the end of a drawn-out saga that has followed Jay-Z for nearly 15 years, with courts consistently siding with the rapper due to procedural and evidentiary hurdles.
