Hip-Hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is at the moment battling to dismiss a disturbing lawsuit towards him and his enterprises following extreme allegations of sexual misconduct relationship again to 2003.
The authorized problem, lodged by the obscure plaintiff recognized solely as Jane Doe, accuses Diddy, Dangerous Boy worker Harve Pierre and an unnamed affiliate of intercourse trafficking and gang-raping her when she was 17 years outdated at his Manhattan recording studio Daddy’s Home.
In her lawsuit filed on December 6, 2023, Doe alleges that in her traumatic encounter, she was coerced into oral intercourse by Diddy’s longtime producing companion, Harve Pierre, who additionally supposedly smoked crack in the course of the incident.
The grievance particulars how Pierre allegedly transported her from Detroit to New York on a personal jet and offered her with medication and alcohol till she was inebriated and unable to consent.
The submitting consists of pictures purportedly from the night time in query, one depicting Doe seated on Combs’ lap, bolstering her claims.
Diddy’s authorized crew, spearheaded by legal professional Jonathan Davis, has put forth a number of arguments for dismissing the accusations, primarily emphasizing that the lawsuit is time-barred.
The alleged incidents occurred in 2003, however the authorized motion was not initiated till 2023, considerably past the statute of limitations.
Davis highlighted in court docket paperwork that any assertion to revive the declare below the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Regulation (VGM) must be disregarded because it conflicts with the provisions of the Little one Victims Act (CVA) from 2019.
In line with Diddy’s protection, the deadline to enact claims below this act expired in August 2021, making Doe’s accusations procedurally invalid.
Furthermore, Diddy’s illustration contended that the purported behaviors of his colleagues shouldn’t be attributed to him or his firms, asserting that such acts fall outdoors the realm of employment obligations.
Davis additional criticized the lawsuit’s narrative approach.
“On the high of Plaintiff’s pleading is a bolded, legally irrelevant ‘set off warning’ calculated to focus consideration on its salacious and wicked allegations. This stunt is meant to prominently showcase a baseless and time-barred declare,” Davis defined.
On his half, Harve Pierre has refuted all the fees towards him, describing them as wholly fabricated and motivated by monetary pursuits.
Pierre declared, “It is a story of fiction. I’ve by no means participated in, witnessed, nor heard of something like this, ever. These disgusting allegations are false and a determined try for monetary achieve.”