Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Information Movement to Dismiss Jane Doe Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ attorneys have filed a movement to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.

The movement comes 5 months after the music mogul, 54, former Dangerous Boy Leisure president Harve Pierre and one other particular person labeled as “Third Assailant” had been sued by a girl recognized as Jane Doe within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York.

The December 2023 submitting accused the people of intercourse trafficking and gang raping Doe when she was 17 years outdated. Combs has beforehand denied all of the claims in his ongoing sexual assault lawsuits.

Based on courtroom paperwork filed on Friday, Could 10, and obtained by PEOPLE, Combs’ attorneys declare that that is Doe’s “second try to state a wholly false and hideous declare in opposition to the Combs Defendants.”

Referring to the plaintiff’s use of “set off warning” in her pleading as “legally irrelevant,” the movement alleges that it’s a “stunt” “supposed to prominently showcase a baseless and time-barred declare, which was designed to trigger the Combs Defendants undesirable publicity, embarrassment, and monetary prices.”

“Mr. Combs and his corporations categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old story in opposition to them, which has already precipitated incalculable injury to the reputations and enterprise standing of the Combs Defendants, even earlier than any proof has been offered,” the movement states.

The submitting additional argues that Doe “can’t allege what day or time of yr the alleged incident occurred,” calling for the case to be “dismissed now, with prejudice, to guard the Combs Defendants from additional reputational harm and earlier than extra occasion and judicial assets are squandered.”

As beforehand reported by PEOPLE, the accuser’s lawsuit claims that she was given medicine and alcohol earlier than being “viciously gang raped” “one after the opposite” after being satisfied to take a personal jet to Combs’ recording studio in New York Metropolis.

Jane Doe’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, beforehand mentioned in an announcement that “The depravity of those abhorrent acts has, not surprisingly, scarred our shopper for all times.” PEOPLE has reached out to Wigdor for remark concerning the brand new submitting.

The rapper has been hit with a number of sexual assault lawsuits previously couple of months. In November 2023, Cassie, who he dated on-again-off-again from 2007 to 2018, accused him of raping and abusing her over the course of their decade-long relationship.

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Though the lawsuit was settled a day later, Combs was accused of sexual assault in a second lawsuit by a girl named Joi Dickerson-Neal shortly after. He was accused of drugging and raping her when she was a school scholar at Syracuse College in 1991.

That very same day, Combs was accused of sexual assault by a 3rd girl, a separate Jane Doe, who alleged that Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Corridor took turns raping her and a buddy in New York Metropolis greater than 30 years in the past.

In February, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a former producer and videographer, filed a lawsuit claiming that Combs sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him throughout their time working collectively.

If you happen to or somebody has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.