Making the Band alum Sara Rivers’ sexual harassment lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs has been dismissed, Us Weekly can confirm.
A judge granted Diddy’s motion to dismiss all 22 counts on Thursday, August 15. Twenty-one of the counts were dismissed without prejudice, and the other was simply dismissed. Judge Jed S. Rakoff deferred the decision on whether it is with or without prejudice.
An attorney for Diddy, 55, reacted to the dismissal in a statement to Us Weekly.
“From the outset, we have said these claims were meritless, time-barred and legally deficient,” lawyer Erica Wolff said in her statement. “The court agreed, finding no legal basis to allow them to proceed. We are pleased the court carefully analyzed and swiftly dismissed these baseless claims.”
Several Making the Band alums have come forward with allegations about Sean “Diddy” Combs over the years, including Danity Kane’s Dawn Richard and Aubrey O’Day. In the new documentary Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, Da Band’s Sara Rivers is the latest participant to share her story. “Sometimes people will stop short and say, […]
Rivers, 47, named Diddy in a lawsuit filed in February, accusing him of sexual harassment. (Rivers appeared on Diddy’s reality TV show Making the Band 2 as a member of Da Band.)
Diddy vehemently denied the allegations at the time, with his attorneys calling the claims “false.”
The disgraced music mogul has been incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since September 2024. He was arrested on multiple counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, denying every accusation and pleading not guilty.
Diddy was found guilty on the two transportation counts but acquitted on the other charges when his trial concluded in July. He is set to be sentenced in October after being denied bail. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Courtesy of Sara Rivers/Instagram Making the Band was once one of MTV’s most popular reality shows, but several former contestants have since leveled allegations against producer Sean “Diddy” Combs. The reality series premiered on ABC in 2000 before moving to MTV and promised to put a band together at the end of each season. The […]
“I want to thank my client Sean Combs for trusting us. Myself and everybody here, this incredible dream team that he put together,” his lawyer Teny Geragos said during a press conference held last month. “Without him, we would not be able to do this. He is incredible, and I want to thank him.”
Geragos added, “Despite the terrible conditions at the MDC, I want to thank the good people who work there who ensured that we had a sufficient amount of time to prepare for trial. It is extremely difficult to prepare for a federal case in the conditions at the MDC, and they did everything they could to make that happen.”
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