September 17, 2025
“Making the Band” star Star Rivers is urgent ahead together with her authorized combat in opposition to Diddy after her sexual assault lawsuit was dismissed.
Sara Rivers, finest identified from her time on Making the Band and as a former member of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ group Da Band, is difficult the court docket’s determination to dismiss her sexual harassment and assault lawsuit in opposition to the Dangerous Boy mogul.
On Sept. 15, the singer filed a movement to enchantment in Manhattan federal court docket after a decide not too long ago dismissed her lawsuit alleging that Combs sexually harassed and groped her throughout the filming of the 2000s MTV actuality collection, Billboard reported. Rivers is now taking her case to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Second Circuit in hopes of reviving the go well with.
Final month, U.S. District Decide Jed S. Rakoff dismissed 21 of the 22 claims in Rivers’ lawsuit “lastly and with prejudice,” stopping them from being refiled. The decide cited the statute of limitations, emphasizing how a lot time had handed for the reason that alleged assault.
“It is very important keep in mind the numerous optimistic functions served by statutes of limitations,” the decide wrote on the time. “They promote justice by stopping surprises by plaintiffs’ revival of claims which were allowed to slumber till proof has been misplaced, reminiscences have light, and witnesses have disappeared.”
Rakoff delayed ruling on depend 15 of the 148-page lawsuit, opting to attend for an appeals court docket determination on whether or not New York Metropolis’s Gender Motivated Violence Safety Act (GMVPA) may nonetheless enable claim-revival after the statewide Grownup Survivors Act had closed its personal window for time-barred sexual misconduct claims. The Grownup Survivors Act is what enabled a lot of Combs’ accusers, together with ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, to deliver their allegations ahead in his intercourse trafficking and racketeering case.
In her lawsuit, Rivers accused Combs of groping her and forcing her into encounters the place he allegedly sexually harassed her throughout the filming of the hit MTV actuality present. Below her GMVPA declare, she additional alleged that Combs “cornered” her at his recording studio, later retaliating by blackballing her from the music business when she rejected his advances.
Her lawsuit accuses Combs and co-defendants, together with Dangerous Boy Leisure, Janice Combs, Common Music, Viacom, and MTV Productions, of conspiracy to commit racketeering. The defendants pushed again, arguing the statute of limitations barred the claims.
In the meantime, Combs faces a wave of civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct whereas remaining in federal custody forward of his Oct. 3 sentencing. He’s nonetheless working to overturn his conviction on two counts of violating the Mann Act for transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
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