Diddy seeks the dismissal of Kirk Burrowes’ revived lawsuit, arguing an alleged 2013 road groping was not a gender-motivated crime.
Kirk Burrowes was staying in a Midtown Manhattan welfare resort in 2013 when he says Diddy discovered him on the road, bear-hugged him, and grabbed his rear finish whereas one in all Diddy’s associates stood close by and threatened his life.
Diddy’s attorneys simply went to federal courtroom to argue that it wasn’t against the law. The mogul’s attorneys say that the encounter doesn’t meet the authorized definition of against the law of violence beneath New York Metropolis’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act, calling it “a single, likelihood assembly on a New York Metropolis road in broad daylight.”
Diddy’s workforce says it has nothing to do with gender, that means his attorneys are utilizing Burrowes’ personal phrases to intestine his case.
“Though the Criticism alleges that Mr. Combs touched Plaintiff’s rear, it doesn’t allege that the conduct was undertaken for the aim of sexual gratification. In line with [Burrowes], it was about one thing completely different: the Criticism states that the alleged touching was supposed ‘to bolster [Mr. Combs’s] continued dominance and management over [Burrowes’] capacity to exist throughout the music trade and public sphere.’ That has nothing to do with abusing or degrading [Burrowes], and it doesn’t implicate the sexual-purpose factor of the statute,” Diddy’s lawyer Jonathan Davis defined.
Burrowes’ 2025 lawsuit in opposition to Diddy lays out a decade of alleged sexual abuse beginning when the 2 co-founded Dangerous Boy Leisure in 1993, with Diddy repeatedly groping him on the workplace and summoning him through intercom beneath false pretenses to stroll in on Diddy performing intercourse acts with workers and interns.
Throughout a 1995 enterprise journey, Burrowes says Diddy greeted him at his resort suite bare and demanded he watch him masturbate.
Later that very same 12 months, Burrowes claims Diddy pinned him down in a Midtown condo, took his keys so he couldn’t depart, simulated intercourse till he ejaculated, and likewise allegedly pressured him to carry out oral intercourse and use objects on him anally.
Then individually in 1996, Diddy allegedly walked into Burrowes’ workplace with a baseball bat whereas his lawyer arrived with a briefcase stuffed with inventory certificates, demanding Burrowes signal over his 25% possession stake in Dangerous Boy or face violent penalties.
He signed all of it away and obtained nothing, was fired in 1997, and Diddy allegedly blacklisted him throughout the trade for years, leaving him homeless and bouncing between New York Metropolis shelters. A lawsuit he filed over the baseball bat incident in 2003 was thrown out as time-barred.
The 2025 GMV revival window was his manner again into courtroom, and now Diddy’s workforce is attempting to slam that door shut too.
Diddy’s temporary additionally fires a footnote at Burrowes’ notorious lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, citing courts that flagged his filings for “fabricated authorized propositions derived from generative synthetic intelligence,” a transparent try to kneecap the opposition earlier than something goes additional.
In 50 Cent’s Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Burrowes described what he endured as “sexually deviant methods,” and childhood Diddy pal Tim “Dawg” Patterson backed him up within the doc, saying Burrowes was “most likely probably the most reliable” of anybody with grievances in opposition to Diddy.
Burrowes as soon as warned them that Diddy “by no means” forgets a grudge, saying, “If he sees a snag within the sweater, he’ll pull,” and with Diddy at present serving 50 months at FCI Fort Dix on Mann Act convictions whereas his felony attraction crawls by means of the Second Circuit, that sweater’s obtained numerous free threads proper now.
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