Sean 'Diddy' Combs on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two co-defendants raped a 17-year-old girl in a recording studio.
by ANDREW DALTON | AP Entertainment WriterFILE - Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean " Diddy " Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two co-defendants raped a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003, saying it was a "false and hideous claim" that was filed too late under the law.
The lawsuit included photographs of the woman sitting on Combs' lap that she said were taken on the night in question. Some of the lawsuits filed against Combs involve decades-old allegations and are among the more than 3,700 legal claims filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which temporarily suspended certain legal deadlines to give sexual assault victims a last opportunity to sue over abuse that happened years or even decades ago.
The judge has ruled the woman will need to reveal her name if the lawsuit moves forward after this challenge. The public airing of allegations against Combs began with a November lawsuit by the singer Cassie, his former protege and girlfriend, containing allegations of beatings, rape and other abuse between 2005 and 2018. The suit, filed by Douglas Wigdor, the same attorney who filed the suit being challenged Friday, was settled the day after it was filed. Combs denied the allegations through his lawyer before the settlement.
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