LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday pushed back against a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused him of sexual assault, arguing that some claims were not based on the law at the time of the incident. A motion to dismiss was filed.
The complaint filed in a New York court argues that Joy Dickerson-Deal 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-Deal are seeking to dismiss with prejudice certain images in Dickerson-Deal'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, went on a date with her in Harlem, took her to his home and sexually assaulted her. said.
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.
Dickerson-Deal'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 the names of people who say they were sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Dickerson did.
Last month, Combs' properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities in a sex trafficking investigation. The criminal investigation is a significant increase in scrutiny of Combs, who is a defendant in several recent sexual abuse lawsuits.
The lawsuit, which Combs settled the day after it was filed in November, accused Combs of years of sexual abuse, including rape, by his former protégé and girlfriend, R&B singer Kathy. According to her complaint, a male prostitute forced her to perform sex acts while filming her.
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.