LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyer Sean “Diddy” Combs Pushing back against a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused her of sexual assault, the state filed a motion Friday to dismiss some claims that were not based on law at the time of the incident.
The complaint filed in a New York court argues that Joy Dickerson-Neal cannot sue Combs because the specific law did not exist when she filed the complaint against him in 1991. are doing.
Lawyers for music mogul Dickerson-Neal are seeking to dismiss with prejudice certain statutes involved in Dickerson-Neal’s claims, including revenge porn and human trafficking.
In a filing last year, she said that when she was a 19-year-old college student, Combs “intentionally drugged” her, took her on a date in Harlem, then took her to his home and sexually assaulted her. Stated.
Combs unknowingly videotaped the assault and later shared it with several friends in the music industry, the complaint alleges. He denied the allegations and accused him of trying to abuse a New York state law that temporarily extended the statute of limitations.
Friday’s motion seeks to dismiss the suit on legal grounds, but Diddy’s lawyers and the mogul have criticized what they call “numerous false, offensive, and despicable accusations” in the suit. He “vehemently denies it.”
Dickerson-Neal’s complaint comes nearly 30 years after the alleged misconduct, and New York’s revenge porn law was not codified until 2019, Combs’ attorney said. His lawyers pointed to several other issues, including services for victims of New York’s human trafficking law, which went into effect in 2007.
The Associated Press typically does not publish names unless people, like Dickerson-Neal, come forward publicly to say they were sexually abused.
Last month, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities. sex trafficking investigation. The criminal investigation has significantly escalated surveillance of Combs, who is a defendant in several recent cases. sexual abuse lawsuit.
Combs settled a lawsuit filed by his former protégé and girlfriend a day after the suit was filed in November. R&B singer Cathy, accused him of sexual abuse, including rape, over many years. According to her complaint, she was filming a male prostitute who forced her to perform sex acts.
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Mr. Combs coerced him into recruiting prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.
Another woman who accused Combs said he raped her 20 years ago when she was 17 years old.
Mr. Combs and his attorney deny all allegations in the lawsuit.
