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Sean “Diddy” Combs has denied allegations of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl

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Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing another rape charge

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Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of raping a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003.

Combs calls the allegation a “false and despicable allegation” and argues it was filed too late under the law.

This lawsuit is part of several similar lawsuits and a subsequent sex trafficking criminal investigation that Combs has faced.

Details of the lawsuit and Combs’ defense strategy

The lawsuit, filed last December and amended in March, was filed by an unnamed woman who currently lives in Canada.

She claims that she was flown to New York on a private jet by Harve Pierre – then president of Combs’ record label Bad Boy Entertainment – when she was an 11th grader at a suburban Detroit high school in 2003.

She was then taken to the recording studio where “she was drugged” until she was “no longer able to consent to sex.”

Combs asked that the case be “dismissed now”

Additionally, the lawsuit alleged that “Pierre, Combs and a man she (plaintiff) did not know took turns raping her.”

The legal document also reportedly included images of the alleged victim sitting on the rapper’s lap, which she said were “taken on the night in question.”

In his defense motion, Combs requested that the lawsuit be “now dismissed with prejudice,” which would prevent a new lawsuit “to protect the Combs defendants from further reputational harm.”

Combs’ defense pointed to “harm” and “legal timing”

Meanwhile, the filing alleges that the plaintiff was unable to provide the exact day or time of year when the alleged incident occurred.

It states: “Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny plaintiff’s decades-old allegation against them, which has caused incalculable harm to their reputation and business condition, before any evidence has been presented.”

“Plaintiff cannot claim what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred, but miraculously remembers other salacious details despite her alleged incapacitated state.”

Combs faces multiple lawsuits under New York’s Adult Survivors Act

This lawsuit is one of many filed against Combs under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which temporarily suspended certain legal deadlines to allow victims of sexual assault to sue for abuse that occurred years or even decades ago has taken place.

However, the deadlines established by this law have expired.

Last month, Combs filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Joi Dickerson, who claimed she was drugged and sexually abused by him when she was a 19-year-old student.