Sean Diddy Combs Asks Judge to Dismiss Rape Case Against 17-Year-Old Girl in 2003

Sean "Diddy" Combs has asked a judge to dismiss the sexual assault case that Jane Doe has filed against him and two other co-defendants, CBS News reported.

"Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff's decades-old tale against them, which has caused incalculable damage to their reputations and business standing before any evidence has been presented," the filing read. "Plaintiff cannot allege what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred, but miraculously remembers other salacious details, despite her alleged incapacitated condition."

Combs's legal camp is asking the court to have the lawsuit "dismissed now, with prejudice." In this sense, the lawsuit could not be refiled again. According to Combs' lawyers, this was made to "protect" Combs and the defendants from "further reputational injury and before more party and judicial resources are squandered."

Meanwhile, the alleged victim's legal camp has hit back with a response.

"At this point, no one should take anything 'diddy' or his lawyers say seriously. Today's motion is just a desperate attempt by Combs to avoid accountability for Ms. Doe's allegations of gang rape and sexual assault. It won't work," one of alleged victim's lawyers said in a statement.

The Jane Doe filed the case in December 2023. She alleged that in 2003 when she was in the 11th grade, Bad Boy Entertainment president Harve Pierre flew her from Detroit to New York in a private jet and took her to a recording studio.

In the studio, the alleged victim, who was just 17 at the time, was said to have been given alcohol and drugs until she was incapable of consenting to sex. The filing against Combs claimed that the rap mogul, Pierre, and an unknown man took turns raping her.

The allegations against Diddy's sexual misconduct started piling up in 202e when the New York Adults Survivors Act temporarily suspended certain legal deadlines for sexual assault victims to sue over abuse that happened years or decades ago.

However, Combs' legal camp filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit through a New York City law called New York City's Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, which allows accusers to file civil complaints involving sexual assault claims after the statute of limitations has run out.

Combs has faced similar sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct charges against him since 2023; one of those was from producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones.

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