Sean “Diddy” Combs has requested a federal choose to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two different males drugged and raped a 17-year-old woman in a New York recording studio in 2003, calling it a “false and hideous declare” that was filed too late beneath the regulation, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
“Mr. Combs and his corporations categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old story in opposition to them, which has brought on incalculable harm to their reputations and enterprise standing earlier than any proof has been introduced,” the submitting obtained by Billboard learn.
“Plaintiff can not allege what day or time of 12 months the alleged incident occurred, however miraculously remembers different salacious particulars, regardless of her alleged incapacitated situation.”
The criticism, which was initially filed in December and amended in March, comes from an unidentified girl who claimed that she was met Harve Pierre, then the president of Combs’ Dangerous Boy Data, in Detroit. He allegedly flew her to New York on a personal jet and took her to a recording studio, the place she stated she was given medication and alcohol and raped by Diddy, Pierre, and one other man.
Whereas the window that New York’s Grownup Survivors Act provided for accusers to file sexual assault complaints after the statute of limitation expired has closed, this lawsuit was introduced beneath New York Metropolis’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Regulation, which additionally extends the deadline for submitting.
On Friday, Diddy’s attorneys argued that “New York state regulation trumps New York Metropolis regulation, with out exception,” which means that the lawsuit wanted to be filed earlier to be well timed,
“Plaintiff can not allege what day or time of 12 months the alleged incident occurred, but purports to miraculously recall probably the most prurient particulars with specificity,” the attorneys wrote. “Accordingly, this case ought to be dismissed now, with prejudice, to guard the Combs Defendants from additional reputational damage and earlier than extra celebration and judicial sources are squandered.”
Diddy’s protection additionally slammed the go well with for together with a “bolded, legally irrelevant ‘set off warning’ calculated to focus consideration on its salacious and wicked allegations” and claimed that “the sparse amendments to the unique Criticism can not treatment the falsehoods and incurable defects within the new pleading. Like the unique Criticism, it fails to state any viable declare and have to be dismissed.”