In line with studies, Diddy has received a authorized victory in opposition to former Making The Band singer Sara Rivers, as a decide in New York has dominated that all the expenses save for one be dismissed. Within the ruling issued Thursday (Aug. 14), U.S. District Courtroom Choose Jed S. Rakoff dominated that 21 of the 22 expenses inside the lawsuit, which included racketeering, assault and battery, compelled labor, and false imprisonment, be dismissed with prejudice. That implies that she can be unable to file a brand new lawsuit containing these allegations in opposition to the Dangerous Boy Data founder.
Choose Rakoff’s ruling on the ultimate cost learn that “the willpower of whether or not to dismiss, with or with out prejudice, Rely 15 (the Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act declare) … is hereby stayed pending” a ruling from an appellate courtroom. It leaves the door open to Rivers to file one other go well with based mostly on that declare.
Rivers was a part of the group Da Band who have been the main target of the second season of the MTV actuality sequence, and he or she filed her lawsuit in opposition to Diddy, aka Sean Combs, in February. She alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Diddy after visiting his studio, Daddy’s Home, to document after being berated by the mogul who claimed that Rivers and her bandmates “lacked drive and initiative” in making their album. She acknowledged that after she left the sales space, she bumped into Diddy who backed her right into a nook and “ran his left hand throughout her breasts.”
Rivers additionally made extra allegations whereas showing within the Peacock documentary Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy launched in January, stating that he “touched me in a spot that he shouldn’t have” and spoke about how enraged he could be towards her and different members of Da Band. “When he obtained offended with one in every of my band members, he stated, ‘You make me so mad, I wish to eat your flesh,’” she recalled.
Ariel Mitchell, Rivers’ legal professional, has acknowledged that she and her consumer plan to attraction. Diddy continues to be incarcerated within the Metropolitan Detention Middle in New York Metropolis, awaiting his sentencing after being convicted on two counts of partaking in transportation with the intent of prostitution in Could. He and his authorized workforce are nonetheless mounting an offense to launch him from jail, together with petitioning President Donald Trump for a federal pardon.