Diddy is asking a federal decide to sanction a lady who sued him and his son King Combs in 2024 over an alleged assault that came about on a yacht, arguing the lawsuit is so frivolous that she and her legal professionals must be compelled to cowl his authorized charges.
In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by XXL on Tuesday (July 21), the embattled mogul claims Grace O’Marcaigh and her authorized group filed a baseless amended criticism after a decide had already dominated that California courts lack private jurisdiction over him.
His attorneys argue the amended submitting was redundant and basically simply repackaged the identical jurisdictional arguments the court docket beforehand rejected, as an alternative of truly addressing the problems recognized by the decide.
In consequence, Diddy says he was compelled to spend further cash defending what his authorized group describes as a meritless case. He is now asking the decide to impose sanctions in opposition to O’Marcaigh and her attorneys, together with requiring them to pay his attorneys’ charges and court docket prices.
However O’Marcaigh’s attorneys are disputing Diddy’s argument, and of their response letters, they are saying the amended criticism consists of new allegations they imagine set up enough ties between Diddy and California via the yacht constitution on the middle of the lawsuit. In addition they word the court docket granted them permission to amend the criticism and keep Diddy’s request for sanctions is itself with out advantage.
Grace O’Marcaigh initially filed go well with in opposition to each Diddy and his youngest son Christian ‘King’ Combs in 2024, alleging the latter sexually assaulted her whereas she was working as a steward on a yacht they’d chartered, and thus Diddy aided and abetted him as a result of he’d chartered the yacht.
Each Diddy and King deny any wrongdoing, with their lawyer Aaron Dyer telling XXL in 2024, “That is simply one other lewd and meritless declare from Tyrone Blackburn — identical to what he filed within the Rodney Jones lawsuit, which he nonetheless has not served. This criticism is stuffed with the identical sort of manufactured lies and irrelevant information we’ve come to anticipate from Blackburn. That is precisely why the federal decide in New York slapped him two days in the past for a ‘sample of conduct’ in ‘improperly [filing] instances in federal court docket to garner media consideration, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and stress defendants to settle shortly,’ and why he was referred to the disciplinary committee within the Southern District of New York. We will likely be submitting a movement to dismiss this outrageous declare.”
Diddy, who’s serving a 50-month sentence on prostitution-related costs, is at present battling dozens of civil instances.
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