The legal team for Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to get one of the lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault dismissed for good.
Combs, along with former Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre, and a third man were sued by a Detroit area woman known as Jane Doe alleging that in 2003 the men raped her after flying her from Detroit to New York City when she was 17-years-old.
Per court documents obtained by People, attorneys for the “Gotta Move On” artist claim this is in fact Doe’s “second attempt to state an entirely false and hideous claim against the Combs defendants.” Additionally, Doe’s lawsuit was argued to be a “stunt” enacted to prominently showcase a baseless and time-barred claim, which was designed to cause the Combs defendants unwanted publicity, embarrassment, and financial costs.”
“Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old tale against them, which has already caused incalculable damage to the reputations and business standing of the Combs defendants, even before any evidence has been presented,” the motion reads.
According to attorneys for the music and media mogul, Doe “cannot allege what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred,” and insisted that her suit be “dismissed now, with prejudice, to protect the Combs defendants from further reputational injury and before more party and judicial resources are squandered.”
Filed in December 2023, Doe’s lawsuit claims that she met Pierre and the unidentified man in a Detroit bar and was convinced to take a private jet back to New York with the men. Upon arriving at Diddy’s recording studio, she was given drugs and liquor before being “viciously gang-raped” by the men in the studio bathroom “one after the other,” according to her lawsuit.
“The depravity of these abhorrent acts has, not surprisingly, scarred our client for life,” said Doe’s attorney Douglas H. Wigdor via statement in December.
In addition to the aforementioned lawsuit, Combs is also facing at least three other sexual assault lawsuits with two of them for incidents allegedly taking place more than 30 years ago, and the most recent suit filed in February by record producer, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones.
