Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dismisses some claims in a sexual assault lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs pushed again in opposition to a girl’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault, submitting a movement on Friday to dismiss some claims that weren’t underneath regulation when the alleged incident occurred.

The movement filed in a New York courtroom claims Combs can’t be sued as a result of sure legal guidelines didn’t exist when Joi Dickerson-Deal made the allegations in opposition to him in 1991.

The music mogul’s attorneys need sure statues from Dickerson-Deal’s claims comparable to revenge porn and human trafficking to be dismissed with prejudice.

In a submitting final 12 months, she stated Combs “deliberately drugged” her then introduced her residence and sexually assaulted her after a date in Harlem when she was a 19-year-old faculty scholar.

With out her data, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with a number of associates within the music business, the go well with alleges. He denied the allegations, accusing her of searching for to use the New York regulation that quickly prolonged the statute of limitations.

Dickerson-Deal’s declare got here almost three a long time after his alleged misconduct and the New York State Revenge Porn Regulation was not codified till 2019, Combs’ attorneys stated.

His attorneys additionally identified a number of others together with the New York Companies for Victims of Human Trafficking Regulation, which got here into impact in 2007.

The Related Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as Dickerson has executed.

Final month, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami had been raided by federal authorities in a intercourse trafficking investigation. The legal investigation is a serious escalation within the scrutiny of Combs, who has been the defendant in a number of latest sexual abuse lawsuits.

In a lawsuit Combs settled the day after it was filed in November, his former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, sued him alleging years of sexual abuse, together with rape. The lawsuit stated he compelled her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he filmed them.

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

One other of Combs’ accusers was a girl who stated he raped her 20 years in the past when she was 17.

Combs and his attorneys have denied the entire allegations within the lawsuits.