Diddy, who was recently accused of sexual assault and misconduct by multiple women, is now claiming that he is the victim.
A filing by his attorney Jonathan Davis on Friday (February 23) paints the mogul as well as former Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre as “victims of the ‘cancel culture’ frenzy in the courts.”
Diddy and Pierre are both defendants, along with an unnamed third assailant, in a lawsuit filed late last year by an anonymous woman who accused the three of gang-raping her in 2003, when she was just 17 years old.
The new filing is in support of Diddy’s motion to dismiss the suit. While making clear that “[d]efendants have categorically denied Plaintiff’s allegations,” the majority of the memo argues that the case should be dismissed because it wasn’t filed in time.
Before making the techical arguments (which involve, among other things, a decision involving Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler), Davis says: “The lawsuit has singlehandedly irreparably damaged the Individual Defendants’ reputations and their standing in the community and has resulted in them becoming victims of the ‘cancel culture’ frenzy in the courts – well before any evidence has been presented, and on the basis of rank, uncorroborated allegations.”
You can read the memo in its entirety here.
HipHopDX has reached out to Davis for further clarification regarding the above comments, though he has not responded yet.
As part of the same case, Diddy recently called in the big guns and hired Bobbi Sternheim to replace Davis to represent him in court.
According to court documents obtained by HipHopDX, Sternheim filed her Notice of Appearance with the Southern District of New York in mid-February. A former president of the New York Women’s Bar Association, she previously made headlines for defending Ghislaine Maxwell in the infamous Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
According to the New York Post, Sternheim also previously represented Osama Bin Laden’s henchman, Khaled al-Fawwaz, in his 2015 trial over the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa that killed more than 200 people.
