Lawyers for Hip Hop mogul, Sean
“Diddy” Combs have pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused
him of sexual assault, filing a motion to dismiss some claims that were
not under the law when the alleged incident occurred. The
motion filed on Friday in a New York court claims Combs cannot be sued
because certain laws didn’t exist when Joi Dickerson-Deal made the
allegations against him in 1991. The
music mogul’s lawyers want certain statutes from Dickerson-Deal’s
claims such as revenge porn and human trafficking to be dismissed with
prejudice. In a
filing last year, she said Combs “intentionally drugged” her then
brought her home and sexually assaulted her after a date in Harlem when
she was a 19-year-old college student. Without
her knowledge, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with
several friends in the music industry, the suit alleges. He denied the
allegations, accusing her of seeking to exploit the New York law that
temporarily extended the statute of limitations. Dickerson-Deal’s
claim came nearly three decades after his alleged misconduct and the
New York State Revenge Porn Law was not codified until 2019, Combs’
lawyers said. His
attorneys also pointed out a few others including the New York Services
for Victims of Human Trafficking Law, which came into effect in 2007. Last month, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities in a sex trafficking investigation.  In
a lawsuit Combs settled the day after it was filed in November, his
former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, sued him
alleging years of sexual abuse, including rape. The lawsuit said he
forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he filmed them.