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Sean "Diddy" Combs may be awaiting sentencing for his federal conviction but at least he scored a new legal victory for one of his various lawsuits.
According to a report TMZ published on Tuesday, July 8, a judge decided to remove significant allegations from a lawsuit filed by Tyrone Blackburn on behalf of his client April Lampros. In her lawsuit, Lampros accused Combs of raping her multiple times in the 1990s. A year later, New York State Supreme Court Justice Leslie Stroh ruled to dismiss accusations of battery, sexual assault and negligent infliction of emotional distress from the lawsuit and remove Bad Boy Records from the complaint.
Lampros said she suffered from four unwanted sexual encounters with Combs throughout the late 1990s. She alleged he raped her in 1995 and sexually assaulted her in 1996. She also claimed he coerced her into a sexual act and raped her again in 1998. The only complaint that remains in her lawsuit is a sexual assault that happened after December 19, 2000, which is when the Gender-Motivated Violence Act was signed into law in New York City.
Lampros claimed Combs sexually assaulted her in her apartment around 2000-2001. She alleged Diddy followed her back to her apartment after they bumped into one another in New York City. After he got there, Lampros claimed Combs "violently grabbed her and forced himself onto her."
Combs' attorneys denied Lampros' claims and motioned to dismiss the lawsuit. His legal team alleged Lampros "filed this baseless lawsuit more than 20 years after the end of her romantic relationship with Mr. Combs," per Complex. "Each and every one of her false claims is deficient on its face and must be dismissed." Even though most of the lawsuit was dismissed, Blackburn asserted that it was a victory.
"It's a win," he told TMZ. "The case moves forward and discovery begins."
The update in Lampros' case comes shortly after Combs was convicted of two federal counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The music mogul is set to be sentenced on October 3.