Diddy Argues Charges In Sex Assault Lawsuit Must Be Dismissed
Diddy‘s lawyers have filed a movement petitioning the courts to partly dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit brought by Joi Dickerson-Neal.
The movement, which was submitted on Friday (April 26), statements that the embattled Terrible Boy mogul are unable to be sued for breaking laws that didn’t exist at the time, in accordance to the Associated Press.
Far additional specifically, the movement states that at the time of the alleged attack on Dickerson-Neal in 1991, some statutes that she cites in her accommodate, which include things like these all about revenge porn and human trafficking, weren’t but on the books.
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Joi Dickerson-Neal statements that the rapper and producer drugged and raped her in the early ’90s, even though also filming the act.
He denied these allegations, stating by suggests of his spokesperson: “This final-moment lawsuit is an instance of how a quite nicely-intentioned regulation [New York State’s Adult Survivors Act] can be turned on its head. Ms. Dickerson’s 32-12 months-old story is manufactured up and not credible. Mr. Combs never ever assaulted her and she implicates organizations that did not exist. This is purely a funds seize and quite tiny a lot additional.”
In February, a producer named Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones accused the New York City native (significant title Sean Combs) of sexual harassment as quite nicely as drugging and threatening him over the class of a yr.
Additionally, the lawsuit claimed that ex-Motown Data primary executive officer Ethiopia Habtemariam was amid these concerned in a drug- and sexual intercourse-trafficking ring for the mogul’s alleged “RICO enterprise.” Extra specifically, she was accused of becoming mindful that alcoholic beverages served at his parties have been laced with unlawful substances.
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Jones and his lawyer Tyrone Blackburn have provided that dropped her from the circumstance, and the 44-yr-aged has now established the file straight about her involvement in the controversy by suggests of a statement.
“I am knowledgeable and think that Mr. Blackburn has falsely represented to a number of social media internet websites and other media outlets that I agreed to ‘testify against’ Mr. Combs,” she shared. “This is entirely untrue. I have no private understanding of any alleged wrongdoing by Mr. Combs and there is absolutely nothing I could testify to that would be from his fascination.
“Being falsely accused of prison conduct is deeply upsetting to me. I did no absolutely incorrect. I beneath no situations saw or participated in any alleged racketeering organization, and I in no way saw, aided or, abetted, or attempted applying to conceal any sexual intercourse trafficking action. In restricted, there is no basis for any of the promises asserted against me, and I need to actually by no suggests have been named a defendant in this lawsuit.”
She concluded: “My counsel furnished a revised declaration that addressed the subjects that Mr. Blackburn dealt with and corrected his false narrative. I am knowledgeable that Mr. Blackburn located my truthful variation to be unsatisfactory to him and he presented nonetheless 1 additional edition that all more than once more presented a phony narrative.”
