Diddy Files Motion to Push aside Some Claims in a Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs pushed abet against a girl’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault, filing a motion on Friday (April 26) to put out of your mind some claims that weren’t below legislation when the alleged incident occurred.

The motion filed in a Unique York court docket claims Combs can’t be sued on account of sure rules didn’t exist when Joi Dickerson-Deal made the allegations against him in 1991.

The music mogul’s lawyers need sure statues from Dickerson-Deal’s claims equivalent to revenge porn and human trafficking to be brushed off with prejudice.

In a filing final year, she acknowledged Combs “deliberately drugged” her then introduced her dwelling and sexually assaulted her after a date in Harlem when she became a 19-year-worn college student.

With out her records, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with several pals within the music industry, the suit alleges. He denied the allegations, accusing her of in quest of to exploit the Unique York legislation that temporarily extended the statute of boundaries.

Dickerson-Deal’s reveal came virtually three decades after his alleged misconduct and the Unique York Insist Revenge Porn Regulations became no longer codified except 2019, Combs’ lawyers acknowledged.

His attorneys additionally identified a pair of others including the Unique York Companies and products for Victims of Human Trafficking Regulations, which came into fabricate in 2007.

The Associated Press would no longer generally name of us who deliver they’ve been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Dickerson has done.

Final month, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities in a intercourse trafficking investigation. The criminal investigation is a critical escalation within the scrutiny of Combs, who has been the defendant in different fresh sexual abuse court docket cases.

In a lawsuit Combs settled the day after it became filed in November, his faded protege and female friend, the R&B singer Cassie, sued him alleging years of sexual abuse, including rape. The lawsuit acknowledged he forced her to delight in intercourse with male prostitutes while he filmed them.

In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging Combs coerced him to solicit prostitutes and compelled him to delight in intercourse with them.

Yet every other of Combs’ accusers became a girl who acknowledged he raped her two decades within the past when she became 17.

Combs and his attorneys delight in denied the general allegations within the court docket cases.