Diddy ‘Making the Band’ Accuser Launches Appeal After Sexual Assault Case Is Dismissed

“Making the Band” contestant Sara Rivers has launched an entreaty pursuing the dismissal of her intersexual battle suit against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Rivers, who became a subordinate of radical Da Band, sued Combs earlier this year, accusing him of sexually harassing and groping her during the filming of the 2000s MTV world show. But a national justice tossed retired the case past month, ruling that she had waited acold excessively agelong to sue.

That won’t beryllium the last ruling connected the case. In a question filed Monday successful Manhattan national court, Rivers said she would entreaty the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which could revive the suit against Diddy.

The appeal, which has not yet been filed, volition halfway connected the statute of limitations. The ruling against Rivers said that her lawsuit – implicit behaviour that allegedly took spot during the filming of a 2000s MTV world amusement – was intelligibly filed years aft the clip limits to bash truthful had expired.

“It is important to retrieve the galore affirmative purposes served by statutes of limitations,” the justice wrote astatine the time. “They beforehand justness by preventing surprises done plaintiffs’ revival of claims that person been allowed to slumber until grounds has been lost, memories person faded, and witnesses person disappeared.”

Detailed arguments for Rivers’ entreaty person not yet been filed successful court. The appellate process could instrumentality months oregon years to resolve.

Following a blockbuster trial, Diddy was largely acquitted successful July connected transgression charges that accused him of coercing women to prosecute successful drug-fueled enactment parties. The assemblage rejected the astir superior charges leveled against him by prosecutors, including racketeering (RICO) and sex-trafficking.

But Combs is hardly retired of the woods. He was inactive recovered blameworthy connected 2 lesser counts of interstate prostitution that could spot him look respective years successful prison. And he’s inactive facing dozens of civilian lawsuits implicit alleged intersexual misconduct.

One of those cases was filed by Rivers, who claims that Combs cornered her successful a signaling workplace and “ran his near manus crossed her breasts.” She says helium past aboriginal blackballed her successful the euphony manufacture successful retaliation for rebuffing his advances.

But successful a ruling past month, Judge Jed Rakoff rejected Rivers’ explanations for wherefore she waited truthful agelong to record her case. She claimed she was acrophobic of retaliation from Combs and his concern empire, but the justice said that simply wasn’t enough.

“While Rivers does allege that she experienced a wide fearfulness of retaliation preventing her from speaking retired against Combs, wide claims of intelligence accent cannot springiness emergence to duress tolling,” the justice said astatine the time, referring to the method word for specified a delay.

The ruling was 1 of 2 large civilian victories Combs has won since the transgression trial. Weeks aft the Rivers decision, different justice dismissed a civilian lawsuit accusing Diddy of drugging and sexually battering a 23-year-old antheral astatine an afterparty successful 2015 – citing the aforesaid occupation with the statute of limitations.