Attorneys for embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a New York judge to toss a Jane Doe sex trafficking lawsuit against the billionaire entertainer, arguing that an extension of the statute of limitations created by the Big Apple’s progressive city council contradicts state law and is invalid.
The explosive lawsuit, filed under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law (VGM), accuses Combs and two other Bad Boy executives of sexually assaulting an 11th-grader in 2003 and flying her from Detroit to New York City and back again in a whirlwind night of booze, sex and drugs.
Jonathan Davis, one of Combs’ high-powered Manhattan attorneys, called the allegations “entirely false and hideous” as he argued that the city’s law, which created a second extension to file claims that were already limited by the prior statute of limitations, is preempted by a similar state law that has also expired.
Sean “Diddy” Combs, left, is seen receiving the key to the city from New York City Mayor Eric Adams in Times Square on Sept. 15, 2023. The city’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence law has become a key issue in a civil lawsuit accusing the media mogul of sex trafficking. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)
“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,” Davis wrote.
The meat of his argument is that the statute of limitations has expired – as has the extension window created by New York’s Child Victims Act (CVA), which gave victims who were under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged sex assault a two-year window to file their claims. That window closed in 2021.
“At the top of Plaintiff’s pleading is a bolded, legally irrelevant ‘trigger warning’ calculated to focus attention on its…
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