Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday (May possibly 10) asked a federal opt for to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two co-defendants raped a 17-yr-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003, declaring it was a “false and hideous claim” that was filed as well late beneath the legislation.

The authorized move is the most present piece of pushback from the 54-yr-aged hip-hop mogul and his legal workforce just following he was subjected to really a couple of equivalent lawsuits and a subsequent criminal sex-trafficking investigation.

“Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff’s a long time-outdated tale from them, which has caused incalculable problems to their reputations and company standing in advance of any evidence has been introduced,” says the submitting, which also names Combs-owned firms as defendants. “Plaintiff are not able to allege what day or time of calendar year the alleged incident occurred, but miraculously remembers other salacious aspects, despite her alleged incapacitated condition.”

The lawsuit was submitted in December and amended in March by the lady who now life in Canada whose name was not disclosed in the courtroom submitting. She claimed she was in 11th top quality at a substantial university in a Detroit suburb in 2003, when Harve Pierre, then the president of Combs’ Terrible Boy Entertainment history label, flew her to New York on a private jet and took her to a recording studio, in which she was presented drugs and liquor till ultimately she was incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse. Then, the lawsuit stated, Pierre, Combs and a man she did not know took turns raping her.

The lawsuit integrated photographs of the female sitting on Combs’ lap that she explained have been taken on the evening time in query.

The defense submitting asks that the case be “dismissed now, with prejudice” — indicating it can not be refiled — “to defend the Combs Defendants from further reputational injuries and prior to a lot more bash and judicial methods are squandered.”

At this early stage in the lawsuit, the arguments are procedural rather than on the specifics of the circumstance.

Some of the lawsuits filed against Combs call for a lengthy time-old allegations and are amid the more than 3,700 legal claims filed beneath New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which temporarily suspended distinct authorized deadlines to give sexual assault victims a previous chance to sue about abuse that occurred yrs or even numerous years back.

The new deadlines founded by that regulation expired, but the match Combs filed the motion from Friday was introduced beneath a diverse law, New York City’s Victims of Gender-Inspired Violence Defense Regulation. That metropolis legislation also enables accusers to file civil grievances involving sexual assault statements quickly following the statute of constraints has operate out.

But Combs’ motion argues that match was filed as well late, mainly because the city legislation is preempted by the point out regulation, whose provisions recommend the lawsuit important to be submitted by August of 2021 to be effectively timed.

“New York point out legislation trumps New York Town regulation, with no exception,” the submitting suggests.

The amended variation of the lawsuit filed in March sought to manage some of these challenges, but Combs’ attorneys argue that it didn’t go substantially far more than adequate. The opt for has ruled the girl will need to have to reveal her name if the lawsuit moves ahead following this challenge.

The Associated Press does not typically name individuals who say they have been sexually abused, unless they happen ahead publicly, as some of Combs’ accusers have completed.

Friday’s protection submitting also criticizes the match for such as “a bolded, legally irrelevant ‘trigger warning’ calculated to target attention on its salacious and depraved allegations.”

The public airing of allegations against Combs commenced 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, submitted by Douglas Wigdor, the identical lawyer who filed the accommodate getting challenged Friday, was settled the functioning day quickly following it was filed. Combs denied the allegations by his law firm just just before the settlement.

Much far more lawsuits against Combs were filed in the subsequent months. Then on March 25, Homeland Stability Investigations served investigation warrants on his properties in Los Angeles and Miami in a sex-trafficking investigation. His lawyer named it “a gross use of armed forces-degree power.” The investigation is continuing. Combs has not been charged.

Final thirty day period, Combs filed a motion to dismiss a accommodate filed by Joi Dickerson, who reported she was a 19-year-aged college or university scholar when Combs drugged her and sexually assaulted her.

Wigdor did not immediately answer to a request for remark on the new submitting. He stated in a statement in December that the “depravity of these abhorrent functions has, not shockingly, scarred our consumer for existence.”