Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has requested the dismissal of a lawsuit in which he and another man are accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio back in 2003.
He said the allegation was a “false and appalling claim”, brought beyond the legal deadline.
This is among several controversies the 54-year-old rapper and his legal team have been subjected to following several lawsuits and a criminal sex trafficking investigation.
The presentation reads: ‘Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny the plaintiff’s decades-old story against him, which has caused untold damage to his reputation and business standing before any evidence has been presented.
‘Plaintiff cannot allege what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred, but she miraculously remembers other salacious details, despite her alleged incapacitated condition.’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (pictured) has requested the dismissal of a lawsuit in which he and another man are accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003.
Combs (pictured) said the allegation was a “false and appalling claim”, filed beyond the legal deadline.
Documents in the lawsuit, which was filed in December and amended in March by the alleged victim, named corporations owned by Combs as defendants.
The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she was attending 11th grade in a Detroit suburb in 2003. She claimed that music producer and president of Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment record label, Harve Pierre, flew her to New York on a private jet. .
The alleged victim claimed he gave her alcohol and drugs to the point where she was incoherent and unable to have consensual sexual relations.
He then said that once under the influence, Pierre, Combs and another man took turns raping his limp body.
Photos of the victim sitting on Combs’ lap, allegedly taken that night, were presented to the court.
The defense requested that the case be dismissed “in order to protect the Combs Defendants from further damage to their reputations and before further judicial and party resources are wasted.” When a case is dismissed “with prejudice,” it means that the lawsuit cannot be refiled.
The 54-year-old rapper and his legal team have been subjected to several lawsuits and a criminal investigation for sex trafficking.
The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she was attending 11th grade in a Detroit suburb in 2003. She claimed that music producer and president of Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment record label, Harve Pierre, flew her to New York on a private jet. .
“At this point, no one should take anything ‘Diddy’ or his attorneys say seriously,” said the plaintiff’s attorney, Michael J. Willemin. ‘Today’s motion is just a desperate attempt by Combs to avoid accountability for Ms. Doe’s gang rape and sexual assault allegations. It will not work.’
Under New York’s Adult Survivors Law, victims of sexual assaults that occurred before 2019 were given a three-year look-back period in which they could file lawsuits for abuse that occurred years or even decades ago, despite the three-year statute of limitations. , which has been extended to 20 years for crimes that occurred after 2019.
Combs is the subject of more than 3,700 lawsuits, some of which include allegations dating back decades. The new deadline has since expired.
However, Combs filed the motion against a lawsuit filed under New York City’s Gender Violence Victim Protection Act, which allows accusers to file civil lawsuits even after the statute of limitations has expired.
Combs and her attorneys argue that the lawsuit was not filed on time and that state law (New York Adult Survivors Act) trumps city law (New York City Gender Violence Victim Protection Act ) “without exception”.
Although the amended version of the complaint, filed in March, attempted to address some of these difficulties, Combs’ lawyers maintain that it did not provide sufficient evidence.
For the lawsuit to move forward, the judge said the woman’s identity must be made public.
Combs’ legal team also argued that the use of “a bold and legally irrelevant ‘trigger warning’ calculated to focus attention on his lewd and depraved accusations.”
Combs has been accused in several lawsuits of sexual abuse in recent months, and he and his attorneys have denied all allegations.
In a lawsuit that Combs settled the day after his performance in November, his former protégé and girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, sued him alleging years of sexual abuse, including rape. The lawsuit says he forced her to have sex with prostitutes while she filmed them.
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs forced him to hire prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.
Two properties belonging to rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched in March by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other authorities as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation.
The alleged victim claimed he gave her alcohol and drugs to the point where she was incoherent and unable to have consensual sex, and that’s when Combs, Pierre and a stranger took turns raping her.
So far, Combs has not been arrested in connection with the raids, nor has he been charged with any crime.
So far, Combs has not been arrested in connection with the raids nor has he been charged with any crime.
Combs, a three-time Grammy winner and founder of Bad Boy Records, is among the most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the past three decades.
He turned his hip-hop empire into a broader business empire that includes private label spirits, fashion and a television network.
