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Amid the mounting legal issues Diddy is facing, it appears he’s trying to lighten his load in his latest legal move.

For context, just before Thanksgiving, we told you about the sexual assault lawsuit brought against the music mogul, Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records and Combs Enterprises by Joi Dickerson-Neal, who alleges that he “drugged her, sexually assaulted her and recorded the assault without her knowledge” as a college student in 1991.

She filed the suit just one day before the expiration of the New York Adult Survivors Act, which permits one year for adult sexual assault survivors to sue their alleged assailant regardless of when the original statute of limitations expired.

Diddy’s spokesperson at the time denied any wrongdoing at the time, saying in a statement:

“This last-minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be turned on its head. Ms. Dickerson’s 32-year-old story is made up and not credible. Mr. Combs never assaulted her, and she implicates companies that did not exist. This is purely a money grab and nothing more.”

On Monday, Diddy’s legal team filed new documentation to dismiss certain claims in Dickerson-Neal’s suit citing the fact that certain allegations were “brought under statutes that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred,” per PEOPLE.

Specifically, they are looking for the claims of “revenge porn” and “human trafficking” to be dismissed with prejudice (meaning these claims cannot be refiled again in court) and they’re pointing to the fact that because the “New York State Revenge Porn Law was not codified until 2019 and the New York Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Law became effective in 2007 — among other laws that only existed after the alleged assault — the claims ‘cannot survive’ the motion to dismiss.”

What’s more, Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day is continuing to speak out against the mogul, this time alleging to TMZ in their new Tubi original documentary “TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy” that when he gave all the old Bad Boy artists their publishing rights back, it was under the condition that they sign an non-disclosure agreement (NDA) which prompted O’Day to refuse the deal.

Other former artists have yet to corroborate her account but if and when they do, we’ll be sure to let you know.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please know help is available. Call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.