Sean “Diddy” Combs Files Motion to Dismiss Certain Claims in Sexual Assault Lawsuit Over 1991 Allegations

A woman previously accused Combs of drugging and raping her while she was a student at Syracuse University in 1991.

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs have asked a New York court to dismiss certain claims against him in a November sexual assault trial in which a woman accused him of drugging and raping her while she was a student at Syracuse University in 1991.

Legal documents obtained by PEOPLE and filed by Combs' attorneys on Friday, April 26, claim that some of the allegations “were made under laws that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred.”

Specifically, the filing argues that revenge porn and human trafficking are among the allegations that should be dismissed with prejudice because the laws surrounding them that were cited in the filing did not exist when Joi Dickerson- Neal alleged that Diddy sexually assaulted her in 1991.

Combs previously denied the claims and alleged that Dickerson-Neal fabricated the story.

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As previously reported, Dickerson-Neal's lawyers claimed she was the victim of “revenge porn” after the music mogul allegedly recorded the incident and shared it with others in the music industry .

The lawsuit filed in November 2023 claimed that Combs took Dickerson-Neal, 19, to dinner at a Harlem restaurant in January 1991 and drove her to a recording studio, where she claimed she was unable to exit the vehicle because she had been intentionally drugged. by Combs, “causing her to end up in a physical state where she could not stand or walk independently.”

Combs then allegedly took her to where he was staying and sexually assaulted her. According to the lawsuit, Combs filmed it and his friend had “viewed the 'sex tape' with other men.”

Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records and Combs Enterprises were also listed as defendants in the lawsuit, which took place a day before New York's Adult Survivors Act expired. The law allowed adult survivors of sexual assault to file a lawsuit one year after the statute of limitations expired.

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Now, Combs' attorneys argue in the filing that because New York State's revenge porn law was not codified until 2019 and New York's Revenge Pornography Act victims of human trafficking took effect in 2007 – among other laws that did not exist until after the alleged assault – claims “cannot survive” the motion to dismiss.

The filing also calls Dickerson-Neal's allegations “false, offensive and salacious.”

Elsewhere in the filing, he argues that the claims against Bad Boy Entertainment and Combs Enterprises (listed as the “defendant companies”) “fail as a matter of law” because neither existed “at the time of the alleged conduct.” Combs founded Bad Boy in 1993 and Combs Enterprises was reportedly founded in 2013.

The complaint comes as Diddy is accused of sexual assault and similar allegations by five people in separate lawsuits over the past few months, all of which he has denied. A lawsuit was settled.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected with a certified crisis counselor.

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

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