Diddy is seemingly sustaining his innocence amid his mounting authorized troubles with a cryptic however telling message on Instagram.
Taking to the social media platform on Tuesday (Could 14), the Unhealthy Boy mogul dropped a meme that merely learn, “time tells fact.”
Within the caption, he added, “LOVE.”
You’ll be able to view the publish beneath.
Over the weekend, Diddy filed a movement for dismissal of a sexual assault lawsuit filed by an nameless accuser, claiming that she filed the swimsuit previous the required timeline.
In line with courtroom paperwork obtained by HipHopDX, the embattled Unhealthy Boy mogul, who “categorically den[ies]” the fees, argued that the “claim-revival” provision of the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Regulation (VGM), a New York Metropolis legislation, is preempted by the Grownup Survivors Act and Little one Sufferer’s Act, a state legislation. Due to that, the declare is that the accuser ought to have filed swimsuit by August of 2021, based on evaluation by the Related Press.
In lieu of an official assertion, Diddy’s publicist pointed to the paragraph within the lawsuit that instantly addresses the matter.
“On the prime of Plaintiff’s pleading is a bolded, legally irrelevant ‘set off warning’ calculated to focus consideration on its salacious and wicked allegations,” it reads. “This stunt is meant to prominently showcase a baseless and time-barred declare, which was designed to trigger the Combs Defendants undesirable publicity, embarrassment, and monetary prices, so Plaintiff may extract an undeserved monetary restoration from them.”
The assertion continues: “Mr. Combs and his corporations categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old story towards them, which has already brought about incalculable harm to the reputations and enterprise standing of the Combs Defendants, even earlier than any proof has been offered. Plaintiff can’t allege what day or time of 12 months the alleged incident occurred, but purports to miraculously recall probably the most prurient particulars with specificity… This case needs to be dismissed now, with prejudice, to guard the Combs Defendants from additional reputational harm and earlier than extra social gathering and judicial assets are squandered.”
In her swimsuit, initially filed in late 2023, the girl claims that Diddy, then-Unhealthy Boy president Harve Pierre, and a 3rd man raped her after she was plied with medicine and alcohol. The alleged incident, she says, befell in 2003 when she was nonetheless in highschool.
One of many lady’s attorneys responded to Diddy’s submitting by saying, “At this level, nobody ought to take something ‘diddy’ or his legal professionals say significantly. Immediately’s movement is only a determined try by Combs to keep away from accountability for Ms. Doe’s allegations of gang rape and sexual assault. It gained’t work.”
Final month, Diddy argued {that a} totally different lawsuit towards him needs to be dismissed as a result of he couldn’t be sued for breaking legal guidelines that didn’t exist on the time.