A sexual assault civil lawsuit introduced towards embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs by a John Doe who claimed he was drugged and assaulted at an after party-turned-orgy was dismissed by a California choose this week as a result of the statute of limitation time interval has handed.
Combs, who was discovered not responsible of the intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs at his blockbuster trial this summer time, nonetheless faces a number of civil lawsuits for varied alleged sexual assaults and different crimes; the fits flooded in from alleged victims after his federal indictment went public in September 2024. He now awaits sentencing in a Brooklyn federal lock-up after being discovered responsible in July of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation of people throughout state or nationwide borders for prostitution, at his prolonged legal trial this summer time.
A number of of the civil circumstances Combs faces have been dismissed since his trial resulted in a break up verdict. In the meantime, the rapper’s attorneys are concurrently trying to have his costs dismissed and reportedly are trying to have a pardon granted by President Trump; the powerhouse group of attorneys have thus far been unsuccessful in getting him launched forward of his Oct. 3 courtroom date.
New York Choose Leslie Stroth stated the case, filed towards the rap mogul, his firm, Combs World, his label Dangerous Boy Information and was filed by a John Doe in February, is properly after the statute of limitations had expired within the two coastal states the place it would apply. It additionally failed to satisfy the edge of the latest 20-year statute of limitations in New York, the place the California resident filed, as a result of the brand new legislation doesn’t apply to circumstances retroactively.
“As a result of the motion is premature underneath each New York and California legislation, it have to be dismissed as to all defendants,” Choose Sloth stated concerning the choice.
The case concerned an aspiring pop singer who, at 23 years previous in 2015, had landed a gig at an L.A. membership that was attended by Combs, who expressed curiosity within the plaintiff, based on his swimsuit. On the afterparty for the gig, Combs handed him a drink and he quickly started to really feel woozy — a standard thread within the authorized claims and civil circumstances that Combs faces — and later woke as much as see Combs and others engaged in sexual exercise, he wrote within the grievance. Combs, he stated, compelled undesirable sexual exercise on him and threatened him with damaging his profession if he resisted, he claimed.
John Doe’s case was introduced by Tony Buzbee, the Texas legal professional who’s handing a number of civil circumstances towards Combs after establishing a name line for authorized complaints towards the embattled rapper after he was underneath federal indictment. After the dismissal, he stated that the case is much from over.
“I wouldn’t name this a victory for Mr. Combs, in any respect,” Buzbee advised Billboard on Wednesday. “We gained’t enable Mr. Combs to flee a trial on the deserves as a consequence of a technicality.”
The dismissal marks the second authorized victory for Combs after his federal trial ended with him spared a possible life sentence. Earlier in August, a federal choose dismissed Making the Band 2 contestant Sara Rivers’ $60 million lawsuit alleging abuse by the hands of Combs on the TV collection. That case’s dismissal was additionally associated to it being filed too late.