Sean “Diddy” Combs asks judge to dismiss lawsuit alleging rape of 17-year-old girl in 2003

Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him and Harve Pierre, former CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment, of raping a 17-year-old girl in a New York music studio in 2003.

Combs’ legal team filed the motion to dismiss in federal court in New York on Friday, calling the allegations “false and abhorrent” and claiming the lawsuit was filed too late under the law.

Combs’ attorney Jonathan Davis called the lawsuit a “stunt” and said it “contains no valid claim.”

The person concerned “cannot specify on what day or at what time of year the alleged incident occurred, but claims to miraculously remember the most offensive details accurately,” the motion states.

The lawsuit, which Doe filed in December and amended in March, accused Combs, Pierre and a third, unnamed perpetrator of raping her when she was in 11th grade. She said she met Pierre in a lounge in Michigan, who told her he was Combs’ “best friend.”

After calling Combs to prove their relationship, the woman claimed that Pierre and Combs persuaded her to take a private jet to Daddy’s House Recording Studio, owned and operated by Diddy. Combs, Pierre and the unnamed third attacker then plied her with drugs and alcohol, the lawsuit said, and “brutally” raped her.

The complaint included photos of Doe that she said were taken in the studio that same evening. In one photo, for example, she was seen sitting on the lap of Combs, who was 34 at the time.

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The lawsuit is one of several filed against the music mogul in recent months, including lawsuits from his ex-girlfriend Cassie and “The Love Album” producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr.

Diddy’s claim was “barred” and expired in 2010 because it was filed under New York’s Gender-Based Violence Protection Act, which has a “seven-year statute of limitations,” Diddy’s latest lawsuit states.

In his motion, Combs is asking that the lawsuit be dismissed “immediately and with reservations,” meaning it cannot be refiled, in order to protect Combs and his companies “from further reputational damage and before even more party and judicial resources are wasted.”

In March, a New York federal judge denied Doe’s request to remain anonymous in her lawsuit against Combs and Pierre if the trial proceeded. The judge said the plaintiff had not provided specific examples of how it would affect her, so the court could not rely on “generalized, unsupported claims” about the consequences of revealing her identity.

Contributors: Anika Reed and Naledi Ushe

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Diddy seeks dismissal of 17-year-old girl’s rape case